Our executive includes:

• President and first Principal - Prof John Dwyer;
• Vice-President - Prof Alastair MacLennan;
• Vice-President - Prof Rob Morrison;
• Treasurer - Prof Marcello Costa;
• Secretary, Chief Executive Officer and web administrator - Loretta Marron;
• Ordinary Member - Joanne Benhamu; and
• Ordinary Member - Dr Sue Ieraci.

President and first Principal

Prof John M Dwyer AO PhD FRACP FRCPI Doc Uni(Hon) ACU. Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales. Founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance. Clinical consultant to the NSW Government's Inter-Agency committee on Health Care Fraud.

Relevant interviews for Prof Dwyer include:

• Whom do you trust to diagnose your food allergies?
• Complementary medicine - to teach or not to teach?
• Against alternative therapies;
• New lobby opposes teaching alternative medicine; and
  
• Doctors groups fight to keep alternative medicine out of uni.

Relevant articles written by Prof Dwyer include:

• There's no place for pseudo-scientific chiropractic in Australian universities;
• Alternative medicine;
• Panacea or placebo: doctors should only practise evidence-based medicine;
• Quackery should be ducked; and
  
• Good medicine and bad medicine: science to promote the convergence of 'alternative' and orthodox medicine.

Vice-President

Prof Alastair H MacLennan AO MB CHb MD FRCOG FRANZCOG. Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Paediatrics & Reproductive Health, The Women's and Children's Hospital. The University of Adelaide.

Relevant radio interviews with Prof MacLennan include:

• Standing up for Science;
• "Mumbo Jumbo" medicine in our universities; and
  
• University "pseudoscience" criticised

Relevant articles written by Prof MacLennan include:

• Tertiary education institutions should not offer pseudoscientific medical courses; and
  
• Alternative therapies: without evidence they do more harm than good.

Vice-President

Prof Rob Morrison OAM, PhD. Professorial Fellow, School of Education, Flinders University, Skeptics Eureka Prize for Critical Thinking 2002. South Australian Government Prize for Science Communication Excellence 2005. Australian Government Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science 2007.

Relevant radio interview/pod casts/television with Prof Morrison include:

• On Friends of Science in Medicine- Interview with Dr Rob Morrison;
• Alternative Medicine courses questioned; and
  
• SOT - Special: Friends of Science in Medicine.
  

Relevant articles/letters written by Prof Morrison include:

• Letters: Better students, or just dumbed-down curriculum? and
  
• Tertiary education institutions should not offer pseudoscientific medical courses.

Treasurer

Prof Marcello Costa FAAS. Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Professor of Neurophysiology (2012). Professor of Neurophysiology, Flinders University.

Relevant radio interviews with Prof Costa include:

• Alternative Medicine Debate.

Relevant articles written by Prof Costa include:

• Does traditional Chinese medicine have a place in the health system?;
• Mind over matter? The ethics of using the placebo effect;
• A neuroscientist's view: spare children the manipulation of chiropractic quackery; and
  
• Pointing the bone at chiropractic quackery - lessons from the UK.

Secretary, Chief Executive Officer and web administrator

Loretta Marron OAM BSc AssocDip(Bus) AAII MACS. Twice recipient of the 'Skeptic of the Year' award.

Relevant radio interviews with Loretta include:

• Debunking myths.

Relevant articles written by Loretta include:

• International view: regulating treatments 'down under'*;
• The backlash against universities offering complementary medicine courses;
• Request to shut down RMIT Paediatric clinic for teaching disproven treatments that target pregnant women, babies, infants and children;
• Chiropractic - A Cure-All or Con?
• Chiro for Kids? and
  
• Chiropractors moving in on GPs' turf.

Ordinary Member - Joanne Benhamu

Ordinary Member - Sue Ieraci

Dr Sue Ieraci, MBBS FACEM, Public Hospital Emergency Physician, Senior Staff Specialist, Emergency Medicine, Bankstown Hospital, University of Sydney.

Relevant articles written by Dr Ieraci include:

• Invasive Dangers;
• The burden of scientific proof;
• Anti-vaccine accountability;
• The risks of choice; and
  
• Thrombolytic truths.