Higher Degree Committee

Membership 2008

Presiding Member – Presiding Member of the Faculty	Professor Minoti Apte
Ex officio members
Dean	Professor Peter Smith
Dean, Graduate Research	Professor Margaret Harding
Registrar or nominee	Ms Michelle Liu
Senior Associate Dean	Professor Terry Campbell
Associate Dean, Research or nominee	Professor Denis Wakefield
Associate Dean, Research Students or nominee	TBA
Heads of School (ex officio) or nominee
School of Medical Sciences	Professor Nick Hawkins (Acting Head)
School of Public Health & Community Medicine	Professor Raina MacIntyre
School of Women’s & Children’s Health	Professor Anne Cunningham
School of Psychiatry	Professor Philip Mitchell
Prince of Wales Clinical School	Professor Phil Crowe
St George Clinical School	Associate Professor Michael Grimm
St Vincent’s Clinical School	Professor Allan Spigelman
South Western Sydney Clinical School	Professor Jeremy Wilson
Rural Clinical School	Professor Louis Pilotto
Postgraduate Coordinator for each School (ex officio)
School of Medical Sciences	Associate Professor Pascal Carrive
School of Public Health & Community Medicine	Dr Catherine Berglund
School of Women's & Children's Health	Dr Leo Leader & Associate Professor Richard Lock
School of Psychiatry	Associate Professor Philip Ward
Prince of Wales Clinical School	Dr Jonathan Erlich & Associate Professor Matthew Kiernan
St George Clinical School	Dr George Mangos
St Vincent’s Clinical School	Dr Mark Danta
South Western Sydney Clinical School	Professor Minoti Apte
Rural Clinical School	TBA
Research Students Two higher degree research students enrolled in a program of the Faculty, to be selected according to a process determined by the Higher Degree Committee. The term of these appointments shall be for one year.
Student Representative	TBA
Student Representative	TBA
Secretarial Support
Office of the Associate Dean, Research	Ms Petrina Choong

Functions

• Administration of research degrees
• Action on all matters relating to the candidature of higher degree by research students other than those matters for which approval has been delegated by Council to the Registrar on the recommendation of a Dean or a Head of School (or their nominees), provided that the action taken and the broad decisions made shall at all times be in accordance with the policy laid down by the Academic Board or by the Faculty.
• Act according to the authority delegated by the Faculty Board and outlined in “Operating Procedures of the Faculty of Medicine Higher Degree Committee”