Child Death Review Team members

CDRT members in 2019-20

Statutory members

Mr Michael Barnes
Convenor
NSW Ombudsman

Mr Paul Miller
Deputy Ombudsman and Community and Disability Services Commissioner

Mr Andrew Johnson
NSW Advocate for Children and Young People

Agency representatives

Ms Gabrielle Drake
Director Child Safety and Review
Department of Family and Community Services

Ms Lisa Alonso Love
Executive Director Learning and Wellbeing
NSW Department of Education

Mr Ben Spence
Ben Spence, Executive Director, Statewide Services
Department of Justice

Mr Matthew O’Meara
Director Emergency
Sydney Children's Hospital

Ms Larisa Michalko
Director Criminal Law Specialist
Department of Attorney General and Justice

Detective Superintendent Scott Cook
Commander Homicide
NSW Police Force

Independent experts

Professor Ngiare Brown
Executive Manager, Research
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

Professor Kathleen Clapham
Australian Health Services Research Institute
University of Wollongong

Dr Susan Adams
Director, Division of Surgery and Senior Staff
Specialist, Paediatric General Surgeon
Sydney Children’s Hospital

Dr Susan Arbuckle
Paediatric/Perinatal pathologist
The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Dr Isabel Brouwer
Statewide Clinical Director
Department of Forensic Medicine

Dr Luciano Dalla-Pozza
Head of Department and Senior Staff Specialist
(Oncology)
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

Dr Bronwyn Gould
General Practitioner

Professor Philip Hazell
Director Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services, Sydney Local Health District;
Conjoint Professor of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School

Professor Heather Jeffery
International Maternal and Child Health
University of Sydney/Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Professor Ilan Katz
Director, Social Policy Research Centre
University of NSW