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
Ms Zoe Robinson
Acting NSW Advocate for Children and Young People
Agency representatives
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
Assistant Commissioner
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
Social Policy Research Centre
University of NSW
Ms Eloise Sheldrick
Coordinator, Coronial Information and Support Program
State Coroner’s Office.
Related links
Related publications
- NSW Child Death Review Team Annual Report 2017-18
- Issues Paper: Child deaths - private swimming pools
- Submission to the review of the Swimming Pools Act 1992 (2012)
- Fact sheet: Reviewable deaths - children and young people, and people with disabilities
- CDRT Child deaths - low speed vehicle run-over fatalities of young children 2002-2011