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Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld AM, OBE MBBS(Melb), MD(Monash), MS(Melb), FAHM, FRACS, FRCS(Edin), FACS, IFAANS, FRCS(Glasg)(Hon), FCNST(Hon), FRCST(Hon), FACTM, MRACMA

Inaugural Director, Monash Institute of Medical Engineering

Senior Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Alfred Hospital Major General Australian Defence Force - Reserves

Training in Neurosurgery

Royal Melbourne Hospital; St Vincent ’s Hospi ta l Melbourne, Royal Chi ldren’s Hospi tal Melbourne, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA; Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

Phone: +61 3 9905 4202

Current Professional Appointments

Chair, Australian Defence Force Human Research Ethics Committee (2012 - 2014) Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Bionics Institute, University of Melbourne (2012) Adjunct Professor in Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of

The Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD, USA Honorary Professor of Neurosurgery Longgang Central Hospital, Shenzhen China Professor of Neurosurgery (Honorary) at the University of Papua New Guinea (2000) Instructor on the Definitive Surgery for Trauma Course (DSTC), and has instructed on the Early

Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) course, and the Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Officers (MICA) course (1992)

Professional Board Memberships

Elected inaugural Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2015)

Medical Advisory Board, Hope for Hypothalamic Hamartomas (2012) President, Graduate Union, University of Melbourne (2012) Chair, Victorian Neurotrauma Advisory Council (VNAC) July (2012 - 2015) Australian Defence Force Reserves Support Council – Victoria (2012) Trustee, Hadassah Foundation Australia and AusiMed (2012) Management Committee of the Pacific Island Project (PIP) 1999 - 2015, PNG Coordinator (2011 - 2015) Advisory Board, Centre for Human Anatomy Education, Monash University (2010-present) Member, Defence Health Foundation – Research Advisory Board (2010 - 2014) Neurotrauma Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) (2010 - present) Board of Directors, Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Medical Research Foundation (2009 - present) Ethics in Neurosurgery & Medico-Legal Affairs Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical

Societies (2006 - present) Chairman, Division of Surgery, The Alfred Hospital (2006-2009) Bayside Health Executive Committee (2006-2009) Medical Advisory Committee of Ambulance Victoria (2003 – present). Consultative Committee on Road Traffic Fatalities (2002-2006) Chair, General Surgery Consultative Group to the Director General of Defence Health Services (2001-

2007) National Vice-President and State President United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) (2001-2004) State Committee of the RACS in 1998, and elected Vice-Chairman of this committee in 2000 Past Chairman of the Trauma Committee of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (NSA) (2000-2005) International Committee of the RACS since 1999-2012. Chairman of the International Committee of the NSA in 1999-2012

 

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National Trauma Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) (1993 - present)

Previous Professional Appointments

Surgeon General, Australian Defence Force - Reserves (2009-2011) Adjunct Professor, Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health, University of Queensland (2006 – 2014) Assistant Surgeon General Australian Defence Force - Army and Director General Health Reserves -

Army in February 2007 - 2008 Honorary Visiting Professor of the Neurosurgical Department of the Beijing Tiantan Hospital and of the

Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China (2005) Commissioner of St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria) (2001-2005) Member, Court of Examiners, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (2005 – 2013) Psychosurgery Review Board of the Victorian Government (2009 –2014) Member, NSA Executive Committee (1998), and the Board of Neurosurgery of the RACS (1999-2005) Associate Professor, in the Departments of Paediatrics and Surgery at The University of Melbourne

(1997-2000) Director, Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children’s Hospital (1996-2000) Deputy Director, Neurosurgery Department, The Royal Melbourne Hospital (1993-2000) and Director,

Neurosurgery Department at the Royal Children's Hospital (1996-2000) Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Monash Medical Centre and Prince Henry's Hospital in

Melbourne (1990-1993) Member, Army Reserve since 1984

Awards

Eccles Oration – Neurosurgery Society Australasia and Australian Neuroscience Society 2016 Jamieson Oration – Royal Brisbane Hospital 2015 ANZAC of the Year Award of the Returned and Services League (RSL) (2015) Appointed Knight of Grace in The Order of St John - October 2014 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2013 Monash Medal (Melbourne Rotary) for Leadership, Integrity and Service (Oct 2012) Visiting Professor, The Inaugural Woodard Symposium, LSU Health Sciences Centre–Louisiana, State

University, Shreveport, Louisiana USA (Oct 2012) Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Oration and Medal, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Annual Scientific

Congress, Kuala Lumpur (May 2012) Paul Harris Fellow with Sapphire Award. Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Rotary (March 2012) Honorary Fellow – Royal College Surgeons Thailand (July 2011) Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary (June 2011) Member of the Order of Australia (AM), (Queen’s Birthday Honours June 2011) Honorary Fellow – Royal College of Neuro-surgeons Thailand (Feb 2011) Honorary membership – Neurotrauma Society of India (2011) John Thomson Medal and Oration, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and Queensland Medical

School, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Nov 2011) Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow) ad eundum in March 2008. Rotary Club of Melbourne Vocational Service Award (2007) Commander, Order of St. John (CStJ) (Oct 2006) John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (2004), their most

prestigious research award LD Hupp Visiting Professorship in Paediatric Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA (2004) Commonwealth Centenary of Federation Medal (2003) The Sally Harrington Goldwater Memorial Visiting Professor Award from the Barrow Neurological

Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (2003) King James IV Professorship for 2002 of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh for hypothalamic

hamartoma surgery in children with gelastic epilepsy Military awards: Australian Service Medal (ASM), the Active Australian Service Medal (AASM), Defence

Long Service Medal (DLSM); Geoffrey Harkness medal (2001) recognising outstanding contribution to the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

The United States Air Force Commendation Medal (2007); Meritorious Unit Citation (2007) Michael E. DeBakey International Military Surgeons’ Award for Excellence (2009)

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The John Thomson Medal and Oration (2010) Asian/Australasian Travelling Fellowship of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (1995) Syme Medal and Syme Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for research on

neural transplantation (mouse model) - (1991)