Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2017
New appointments to the PBAC
1 June 2017 - The Minister for Health has made nine appointments (five new appointments and four re-appointments) to the PBAC.
The new appointments are Professor Clara Chow (cardiologist); Ms Bel Harper (consumer nominee); Professor Catherine Hill (rheumatologist and epidemiologist); Professor Kirsten Howard (health economist); and Dr Meena Okera (oncologist). The reappointments are Professor Christopher Etherton-Beer (clinical pharmacologist); Dr David Newby (community pharmacist); Dr Rashmi Sharma (general medical practitioner); and Ms Jo Watson (consumer nominee).
These new appointments increase the total PBAC membership to 19, enhancing the capacity of the Committee to deal with a growing number of increasingly complex submissions.
