Advisory Panels

Assoc Prof Andrew Cochrane is a leading cardiac surgeon from Melbourne, with 18 years experience. Since 2003, he has volunteered his time annually in Timor-Leste providing surgical care on a pro bono basis, in addition to volunteer surgical work in Pacific nations through Operation Open Heart and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Assoc Prof Cochrane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Monash University, and is actively involved in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, serving on several committees. Assoc Prof Cochrane set up the East Timor Hospital Support Fund via the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and was the Chair of the RACS Victorian State Committee from 2006-2008. He is currently a member of the Cardiothoracic Board. In addition to his volunteer surgical services, Assoc Prof Cochrane is engaged in several other philanthropic activities through Monash University and University of Melbourne, including financing the Donald Cochrane Scholarship through the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Margaret Schofield Opera Scholarship via the Melba Opera Trust. He is currently a Director and Trustee of the Cochrane - Schofield Charitable Fund. As Chairman of the Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste, Assoc Prof Cochrane's special responsibilities include recruitment for the Medical Advisory Panel.

Dr Chris Fenton (M.B.,B.S., University of Sydney, 1978) is the Founder and Managing Director of the Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste. He founded the Hospital in 2006 after 25 years of general medical practice in Sydney's eastern suburbs. His concern about the people of Timor-Leste grew from following the mass media coverage of the troubles surrounding the 1999 self-determination election. This coincided with his decision to transition from general medical practice to use his skills in the wider community. Dr Fenton is currently the Medical Director for Papua New Guinea International SOS (Australasia) and supervises the provision of all medical services to the ExxonMobil PNG/LNG project, as well as to the Lihir Goldmine project which runs a hospital carrying out 7000 consultations a month. He has previously served as a Board Member of the Sydney Medical Services Cooperative, the largest after hours medical locum Service in Sydney from 2003-2005. Dr Fenton was also a Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincent's Private Hospital from 1982 -2003. As the Managing Director of the Hospital of Hope Timor-Leste, he has oversight of the entire project. Dr Fenton has travelled to Timor-Leste 16 times since 2006, most recently in June 2010.

Assoc Prof Clare Nourse is the Director of the Paediatric Infection Management Service at the Mater Children's and Mater Mothers' Hospitals and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Paediatrics at the University of Queensland. She qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin and trained at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin, Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane. She has 25 years experience in tertiary hospital medical practice, including 13 years specifically in the field of tertiary clinical care for paediatric infection. She has developing country and crisis experience with International Committee of the Red Cross 1991. Assoc Prof Nourse has worked at Mater Children's Hospital since 1992, and her particular clinical and research interests are in HIV infection in children, staphylococcal infection and refugee health. Assoc Prof Nourse has been a Board member of the Mater Hospital Foundation, Brisbane 2008-2010. The Mater Foundation is a leading philanthropic organisation that funds life changing healthcare and medical research for the Mater Hospitals and the Mater Medical Research Institute. She is also a Council member for the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases 2010, a Health Committee member for the Terrace Timor Network, Brisbane and a Member of Innocents Relief, Queensland. Assoc Prof Nourse joined the Hospital of Hope Board in June 2010.

Dr Zoe Wainer B.M.B.S is a cardiothoracic surgical trainee. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and currently the thoracic surgical oncological research fellow at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with a research focus on non-small cell lung cancer. She holds the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; Raelene Boyle Scholarship for 2010, and previously held the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; Foundation for Research Scholarship (2009), and The University of Melbourne; Overseas Research Experience Scholarship (2009). Dr Wainer is also a Director of The Australian Medical Association (AMA) of Victoria; a member of the Post Graduate Medical Council of Victoria committee; a member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne; and has previously been a Director on the board of the Victorian Doctors Health program. Dr Wainer has volunteered as a cardiothoracic surgical assistant for missions going to Fiji, Timor-Leste and Tonga.

Joseph Cato is a professional civil engineer, having graduated from the University of NSW in 1978. He is the immediate past President of the Civil Contractors Federation (NSW), having been on the Board for 7 years. He has been a Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia since 1978. He has extensive experience across the construction industry, including roles as project engineer with major contractors as well as management roles within the materials supply industry. He has been the principal of his own businesses involved in the civil construction industry for more than 20 years. He has experience in earthmoving, road building, foundations, piling, concrete construction, asphalt laying, retaining wall construction and drainage work. Mr Cato has inspected the site of the proposed hospital in Lahane, Dili.

Peter Day is the current Head of African/Middle East development for PDL Toll, a Toll group company specializing in remote logistics support services. Peter is based in Entebbe, Uganda, and his work takes him throughout Africa and the Middle East. Peter joined PDL Toll in 2001 after 22 years service as a Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving specialist in the Royal Australian Navy. Peter has been instrumental in the development of the company from an Australian regional ship agency business in 2001 to a diversified logistics support provider with operations throughout Africa, the Pacific and Asia.

Dr John Mulcahy BCE, PhD, FAIE has more than 27 years' management experience in financial and property investment. He was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Suncorp for six years. Prior to Suncorp, Dr Mulcahy held a number of senior executive roles over a six-year period in the Commonwealth Bank including the role of Group Executive, Investment and Insurance Services. Prior to joining the Commonwealth Bank he was Chief Executive of Lend Lease Property Investment Services and Chief Executive of Civil and Civic. Dr Mulcahy is also Guardian of the Future Fund Management Agency. The Future Fund was established by the Future Fund Act 2006 to assist future Australian governments meet the cost of public sector superannuation liabilities by delivering investment returns on contributions to the Fund. Dr Mulcahy was appointed to the Board of Coffey International in September 2009. He was appointed as a Director of Mirvac in November 2009.

Frank Mattiussi is the Managing Director of Origin Securities Pty Ltd. He has over 25 years' experience as a corporate advisor, including senior roles with AIDC and Hambros Australia and has broad experience in providing strategic and commercial advice to companies in respect of matters such as mergers, acquisitions and divestments, public and private equity raising, project and structured finance, corporate restructuring and shareholder value issues. Mr Mattiussi has worked across a diverse range of industries including beverages, building products, engineering, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure, resources and telecommunications, which included management of the AIDC Telecommunications Fund and 5 years as a director of Optus Communications. Frank is a regular speaker on corporate advisory topics. He was a foundation member the Securities Institute of Australia's (now FINSIA) Mergers & Acquisitions Task Force and the co-chair of the Advisory Committee of the Corporate Financial Management module of the FINSIA's MBA Program.

Chris Wagner is the National Manager of Media and Government Relations for Lifeline Australia, responsible for all Public Relations activity and managing the lobbying efforts of the organisation. He has over ten years experience in the media and public sectors and has worked in ministerial offices, including in the Office of the current Attorney General, as well as the Office of the former Minister for Justice as a senior media advisor. Mr Wagner has also worked for a number of state and federal government departments, for a range of not for profit organisations and as a journalist for the Southern Cross Broadcasting Network at Channel Ten News. He has extensive experience in matters of mental health, politics, criminal and civil justice, national security and emergency management, as well as grassroots community liaison, amongst others. He has a first class honours degree in communications and journalism from the University of Canberra and is currently completing a masters in marketing communications. Mr Wagner is also a Council Member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia. He is married to a very clever woman with one beautiful daughter and enjoys an obsession with the news media and politics.

Zoe Wagner is a Communications and Media Manager within the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. She has over ten years experience in the communications sector and specialises in strategic planning. She began her career in journalism and worked for news outlets in the United Kingdom before beginning her career with the Federal Government in 2005. She has extensive Federal Government experience and worked across a range of departments including Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Human Services and the Department of Education and Workplace Relations.

Duane Attree has experience in multiple health settings specialising in strategic development and business planning, funding policy, health service and information management, infrastructure planning and project management. He has led projects ranging from the development of strategic governance options for the Australian Government, establishing State wide health system funding policy reform, to the facility, procurement and implementation planning of a $300m health service in regional NSW. As the CEO of a health service in Victoria, Mr Attree was responsible for leadership including the development and operational implementation of strategic and service plans, leading to the modernisation of financial, IT and risk management practices as well as managing the planning and implementation of a new $22m facility. He has previously held senior executive roles responsible for all aspects of service delivery in the health system, including Director of Finance and Corporate Services, Executive Decision Support Manager, Program Manager (Chronic/Complex Care) and Associate Director Ambulatory Care. He is a Board member of the NSW Branch of the Australian College of Health Service Management and has previously held Board or Board advisor positions with the YMCA (Greater Murray) and Australian Directors Guild.

Cate Smith is Corporate Services Manager at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research. Her responsibilities include managing grant funding to the Institute, which involves extensive liaison with government and non-government funding organisations. She is also responsible for driving a range of organisational strategy and development initiatives, including for example the Kinghorn Cancer Centre, for which she is acting in a project management role. Previously Ms Smith worked as a Research Analyst for Givewell, an organisation that provides research and consultancy services to companies and not-for-profit organisations on philanthropic strategy. Her involvement in the Hospital of Hope brings together professional and personal interests in the health and medical sectors and in international development, the latter arising in part from periods spent living in South East Asia and the Middle East. Ms Smith has a humanities background including a First Class Honours Degree from the ANU and a Masters Degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is currently undertaking an MBA at Macquarie Graduate School of Management.