Our Board Members
The role of the PC Foundation Board is to direct the path of the future of the PC Foundation including governing the fund, administering the allocation of grants & sanctioning membership of the Grants Advisory Committee Members and the appointment of Ambassadors.
Associate Professor Peter Martin • CHAIRMB BCh BAO, PGDipPM, MMed, FAChPM
Palliative Medicine Physician
Peter graduated from Queen’s, Belfast in 1987. In 2000 completed his Masters of Medicine at Melbourne University with a thesis on medical informatics. Previous posts have included a consultant post with Southern Health & South East Palliative Care, Clinical Director of Palliative Care at St Vincent’s & Eastern Health as well as Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine in the UK. He is currently Regional Clinical Director of Palliative Care at Barwon Health.
Peter’s research interests include multi-modality & multidisciplinary approach to Cancer Anorexia Cachexia Syndrome and how medical informatics can improve outcomes in Palliative Care Practice. He continues his commitment to communication skills training with the Cancer Council’s VCCCP program.
David Elliott• DIRECTOR/SECRETARYFCA
Chartered Accountant, Immediate Past President Quensland Aged & Disability Advocay Inc, Treasurer Kidney Support Network Inc
Prevoius positions:
Deputy Chancellor, University of Southern Queensland
President etc of various Chamber of Commerce Branches, Clubs, etc
Professional Qualifications:
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Interests:
Better Cities programs
Ethics
Sailing
Computers
Mr Mark Cockayne• DIRECTOR, Chair of the Grants Advisory CommitteeMark has worked in the area of palliative care for more than fifteen years, in Australia and overseas. In this time he has been involved as a clinician and administrator in various models of service provision, incorporating direct care provision, consultant roles, management in rural and metropolitan areas, and within both the public and private service systems.
Mark is currently a member of the Palliative Care Australia Board, has been a Director of Palliative Care Victoria for 10 years (past Chairman and Treasurer), and previous Executive member of the Palliative Care Australia Council.
Mark is currently the Chief Executive Officer of South East Palliative Care, a specialist community provider of palliative care services to a population of more than 500,000 people, in what is Victoria’s growth corridor of the Southern Metropolitan Region. Mark is a member of numerous palliative care working groups at a state and national level, and has been the Chairman of the Southern Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium since its inception in 2005.
Mark has a very real commitment to palliative care and a passionate focus upon outcomes of service provision and research that can be measured so as to better evaluate the services provided, and always to endeavour to improve care that is provided to the patient, and their family and carers.
Management
Ms Donna Daniell• CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERBPharm.,EMBA(AGSM).,MAICD.,FAIPM
Donna Daniell was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer, Palliative Care Australia in October 2006.
Donna is a graduate of the University of New South Wales with a Masters in Business Administration Victorian College of Pharmacy with a Bachelor of pharmacy.
With a broad background spanning over 25 years in both the public and private health industry sectors, Donna has successfully fulfilled the requirements for a diverse range of positions. These positions include senior advisory roles, lobbying and negotiation, research and analysis, policy development and implementation, stakeholder engagement, leadership and project management, marketing and media management.
Donna is former senior policy adviser to two Federal Health Ministers where she advised on the portfolio areas of health finance (MBS, PBS) and Electronic Health, Immunisation, Chronic Health and privacy.
Donna brings has a keen interest in working with a community to strengthen the governance and links between its internal environment and its customers, and to contribute in a tangible way to the strategic growth of that organisation.
Download the PCF Annual Report below
• PCF Annual Report 2007-2008
Grants Advisory Committee Members
All applications for grants are evaluated by the PC Foundation's Grants Advisory Committee involving leaders in palliative care throughout Australia.
Mr Mark Cockayne • CHAIR
Victoria
| Professor Michael Ashby Tasmania |
Professor Richard Chye New South Wales |
| Dr Mark Deuble Queensland |
Dr Susan Lee Victoria |
| Mr David Stephenson South Australia |
Dr Louise Welch Queensland |
Ambassadors
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| Ms Marlene Mathews AO PATRON One of the world's greatest track & Field sprinters |
Mr Steven Bradbury OAM Australia's first Winter Olympic Gold Medallist |
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| Ms Julie McDonald OAM Australia's greatest long distance female swimmer |
Mr Andrew Slack 1987 World Cup Wallaby Captain |
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| Mr David Fordham TV Sports presenter and Master of Ceremonies |
Carl Rackemann Legendry Queensland & Australian Fast Bowler |
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| Glynis Nunn Cearns Australian Olympic Gold Medallist - Heptathlon Los Angeles Olympics 1984 |
Ian Healy Australia's Wicket Keeper of the Century |
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