In-brief: July 2021

Clinical Associate Professor Sanjay Jeganathan will serve as president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists for two years from next January. He works at Perth Radiological Clinic and is a consultant radiologist at Fiona Stanley Hospital and BreastScreen WA.


Plastic surgeon Dr Mark Duncan-Smith has taken over from Dr Andrew Miller as president of the Australian Medical Association (WA).


The Lions Eye Institute has appointed Dr Glen Power as its new CEO.


HBF has acquired 100% of Credit Union Australia Health Ltd, owner of private health insurance CUA Health.


Dr Andrew Wesseldine

St John of God Murdoch Hospital has appointed consultant geriatrician Dr Andrew Wesseldine as its new Director of Medical Services.


Professor Peter Leedman and his team at Perkins Institute and UWA have been awarded $450,000 to find new ways to treat liver cancer, one of 12 projects funded by Cancer Council NSW to find more targeted cancer treatments.


Perth-based Chronic Care Australia, co-founded by exercise physiologist Katie Stewart, was recognised at the Value Based Health Care Awards in Amsterdam, Netherlands, taking out the Primary Care Award for its integrated Exercise as Medicine treatment plan.