WHO ARE WE

POSITION	HELD BY
PRESIDENT	Prof Leanne Hides
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT	Prof Michael Farrell
VICE PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT-ELECT	Dr Craig Rodgers
SECRETARY	Prof Emmanuel Kuntsche
TREASURER	Dr Anthony (Tony) Gill
NEW SOUTH WALES REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Suzie Hudson
VICTORIA REPRESENTATIVE	A/Prof Suzanne Nielsen
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVE	Anke van der Sterren
TASMANIA REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Jackie Hallam
QUEENSLAND REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Zoe Walter
NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Cassandra Wright
SOUTH AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Katherine (Kate) Senior
WESTERN AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE	Grace Oh
NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE	Dr David Newcombe
DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF	Prof Robin Room
EARLY TO MID CAREER RESEARCHERS REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Christina Marel
SMOKING CESSATION PROFESSIONALS REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Ryan Courtney
CHAPTER OF ADDICTION MEDICINE (ChAM) REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Craig Rodgers
DRUG AND ALCOHOL NURSES OF AUSTRALASIA (DANA) REPRESENTATIVE	Dr Adam Searby

PRESIDENT Professor Leanne Hides
	Professor Leanne Hides holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship and the industry-supported Lives Lived Well Chair in Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health at the University of Queensland. She is Deputy Director of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, which is one of the four Commonwealth funded National addiction research centres in Australia. Leanne is a clinical psychologist with almost 25 years of clinical and research experience in the development and testing of treatments for substance use and comorbid mental disorders. She also develops web and mobile-app based programs. Most of this research is conducted in partnership with government and non-government organisations (e.g. Lives Lived Well) to ensure research can be translated into practice. Leanne has 215 publications including 195 in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented her work at over 100 conferences.

PRESIDENT

Professor Leanne Hides

Professor Leanne Hides holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship and the industry-supported Lives Lived Well Chair in Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health at the University of Queensland. She is Deputy Director of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, which is one of the four Commonwealth funded National addiction research centres in Australia. Leanne is a clinical psychologist with almost 25 years of clinical and research experience in the development and testing of treatments for substance use and comorbid mental disorders. She also develops web and mobile-app based programs. Most of this research is conducted in partnership with government and non-government organisations (e.g. Lives Lived Well) to ensure research can be translated into practice. Leanne has 215 publications including 195 in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented her work at over 100 conferences.

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Professor Michael Farrell
	Professor Michael Farrell is the Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW since 2011. He worked in London for over 20 years where he was a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist in the Maudsley Hospital and a Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. His extensive research interests include treatment evaluation. He is an editor of the Cochrane Drug and Alcohol Group. Other interests include Evidence-Based Practice and Treatment Evaluation and the Translation of new evidence into practice. He has undertaken and published widely on psychiatric comorbidity, national mental health survey programmes and drug use in the criminal justice system. He has been a member of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug and Alcohol Dependence since 1995. Professor Farrell chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Abuse (EMCDDA). He has published over 200 scientific papers and has undertaken a wide range of work for international agencies and for National Governments on aspects of National Drug Policies.

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Professor Michael Farrell

Professor Michael Farrell is the Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW since 2011. He worked in London for over 20 years where he was a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist in the Maudsley Hospital and a Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. His extensive research interests include treatment evaluation. He is an editor of the Cochrane Drug and Alcohol Group. Other interests include Evidence-Based Practice and Treatment Evaluation and the Translation of new evidence into practice. He has undertaken and published widely on psychiatric comorbidity, national mental health survey programmes and drug use in the criminal justice system. He has been a member of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug and Alcohol Dependence since 1995. Professor Farrell chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Abuse (EMCDDA). He has published over 200 scientific papers and has undertaken a wide range of work for international agencies and for National Governments on aspects of National Drug Policies.

VICE PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT-ELECT Dr Craig Rodgers
	Craig Rodgers completed his training with the College of General Practitioners in 2000 and has been working as a part-time GP in the inner city area of Sydney since that time. In 2004 he was inducted as a founding Fellow of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine and has continued to work in both the drug and alcohol sector and general practice. He enjoyed many years of work at the Kirketon Road Centre in Kings Cross, a primary health care service for people who inject drugs, sex workers and ‘at risk’ youth, and was the Medical Unit Manager from 2002 until 2012. Since 2012 he has been working as a Staff Specialist in Addiction Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital. He is also a conjoint lecturer at the University of NSW and has contributed to registrar and GP training in the areas of Addiction Medicine, HIV and Sexual health.

VICE PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT-ELECT

Dr Craig Rodgers

Craig Rodgers completed his training with the College of General Practitioners in 2000 and has been working as a part-time GP in the inner city area of Sydney since that time. In 2004 he was inducted as a founding Fellow of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine and has continued to work in both the drug and alcohol sector and general practice. He enjoyed many years of work at the Kirketon Road Centre in Kings Cross, a primary health care service for people who inject drugs, sex workers and ‘at risk’ youth, and was the Medical Unit Manager from 2002 until 2012. Since 2012 he has been working as a Staff Specialist in Addiction Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital. He is also a conjoint lecturer at the University of NSW and has contributed to registrar and GP training in the areas of Addiction Medicine, HIV and Sexual health.

TREASURER Dr Anthony (Tony) Gill
	Dr Anthony (Tony) Gill is an Addiction Medicine Specialist who has worked in the Drug and Alcohol field for around 30 years. He has worked as a clinician and clinical leader primarily. He has held various Drug and Alcohol Clinical Director positions in NSW Local Health Districts and in the past in the NSW Ministry of Health. He is presently a Senior Staff Specialist in the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, and Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist in the NSW Ministry of Health. His interests in drug and alcohol include teaching and clinical service development and redesign, and he has worked extensively with general practitioners to enhance their activities in drug and alcohol.

TREASURER

Dr Anthony (Tony) Gill

Dr Anthony (Tony) Gill is an Addiction Medicine Specialist who has worked in the Drug and Alcohol field for around 30 years. He has worked as a clinician and clinical leader primarily. He has held various Drug and Alcohol Clinical Director positions in NSW Local Health Districts and in the past in the NSW Ministry of Health. He is presently a Senior Staff Specialist in the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, and Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist in the NSW Ministry of Health. His interests in drug and alcohol include teaching and clinical service development and redesign, and he has worked extensively with general practitioners to enhance their activities in drug and alcohol.

SECRETARY Professor Emmanuel Kuntsche
	Professor Emmanuel Kuntsche has been trained in Psychology (University of Jena, Germany), Sociology (University of Jena, Germany), Public Health (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Statistics (University of Essex, UK). After having mainly worked at Addiction Switzerland, an NGO located in Lausanne, he became a Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and the Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research in 2017. He continues his part-time position as an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and as an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He currently investigates the development and transformation of alcohol-related cognition from early childhood into adolescence and the role of parental alcohol socialisation. His research interests also include the measurement of both alcohol consumption (e.g. using ecological momentary assessment and transdermal monitors) and related cognition (e.g. by means of the Alcohol Expectancy Task he developed). Emmanuel has received career awards and personal funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Treatment, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and International Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. He has had editorial appointments at six international journals (currently Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Review and European Addiction Research).

SECRETARY

Professor Emmanuel Kuntsche

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Professor Emmanuel Kuntsche has been trained in Psychology (University of Jena, Germany), Sociology (University of Jena, Germany), Public Health (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Statistics (University of Essex, UK). After having mainly worked at Addiction Switzerland, an NGO located in Lausanne, he became a Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and the Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research in 2017. He continues his part-time position as an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and as an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He currently investigates the development and transformation of alcohol-related cognition from early childhood into adolescence and the role of parental alcohol socialisation. His research interests also include the measurement of both alcohol consumption (e.g. using ecological momentary assessment and transdermal monitors) and related cognition (e.g. by means of the Alcohol Expectancy Task he developed). Emmanuel has received career awards and personal funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Treatment, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and International Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. He has had editorial appointments at six international journals (currently Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Review and European Addiction Research).

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVE Anke van der Sterren
	Anke van der Sterren is the Senior Research Manager at the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA). Anke is a social scientist with over 25 years’ experience in research and evaluation in the areas of alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, blood borne viruses and workforce development. Anke has worked as a public health researcher in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled, university, and non-government sectors. Anke is in the 2020 cohort of the Future Health Leaders Program at UNSW and is undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Applied Public Health. Her DrPH project focuses on identifying and exploring the key domains of service user experiences that are most important to people accessing AOD services, and using these to codesign a service-user centred experience measure that reflects the perspectives and needs of multiple stakeholders—service users, service providers, policy makers/funders and researchers.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVE

Anke van der Sterren

Anke van der Sterren is the Senior Research Manager at the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA). Anke is a social scientist with over 25 years’ experience in research and evaluation in the areas of alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, blood borne viruses and workforce development. Anke has worked as a public health researcher in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled, university, and non-government sectors. Anke is in the 2020 cohort of the Future Health Leaders Program at UNSW and is undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Applied Public Health. Her DrPH project focuses on identifying and exploring the key domains of service user experiences that are most important to people accessing AOD services, and using these to codesign a service-user centred experience measure that reflects the perspectives and needs of multiple stakeholders—service users, service providers, policy makers/funders and researchers.

NEW SOUTH WALES REPRESENTATIVE Dr Suzie Hudson
	Suzie is an accredited mental health Social Worker and has over 20 years’ of clinical experience in the fields of substance misuse, mental health, forensics, research and evaluation. Suzie has worked, developed and managed community-based and residential alcohol and drug services both in Australia and overseas and currently holds the position of Clinical Advisor at the Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAOD) at the NSW Ministry of Health. In addition, she provides training workshops designed to enhance the capacity of the AOD treatment sector and maintains a private counselling and clinical supervision practice. Suzie has a PhD in public health and community medicine, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) and has a passion for engaging with social change.

NEW SOUTH WALES REPRESENTATIVE

Dr Suzie Hudson

Suzie is an accredited mental health Social Worker and has over 20 years’ of clinical experience in the fields of substance misuse, mental health, forensics, research and evaluation. Suzie has worked, developed and managed community-based and residential alcohol and drug services both in Australia and overseas and currently holds the position of Clinical Advisor at the Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAOD) at the NSW Ministry of Health. In addition, she provides training workshops designed to enhance the capacity of the AOD treatment sector and maintains a private counselling and clinical supervision practice. Suzie has a PhD in public health and community medicine, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) and has a passion for engaging with social change.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE Dr Katherine (Kate) Senior
	Dr Kate Senior is a GP by training and is currently completing Advanced Training in Addiction Medicine with Drug & Alcohol Services SA. She will become an Addiction Medicine Specialist in Feb 2023. Kate’s particular areas of interest include Aboriginal health, hepatitis treatment in AOD settings and co-morbid chronic pain and opioid dependence. She is passionate about all forms of harm reduction and was honoured to be involved in the inception of South Australia’s first Managed Alcohol Program in Jan/Feb 2022. Kate looks forward to welcoming you to the APSAD23 Conference in Adelaide.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE

Dr Katherine (Kate) Senior

Dr Kate Senior is a GP by training and is currently completing Advanced Training in Addiction Medicine with Drug & Alcohol Services SA. She will become an Addiction Medicine Specialist in Feb 2023. Kate’s particular areas of interest include Aboriginal health, hepatitis treatment in AOD settings and co-morbid chronic pain and opioid dependence. She is passionate about all forms of harm reduction and was honoured to be involved in the inception of South Australia’s first Managed Alcohol Program in Jan/Feb 2022. Kate looks forward to welcoming you to the APSAD23 Conference in Adelaide.

VICTORIA REPRESENTATIVE Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen
	Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen (BPharmSc[Hons] PhD MPS) is the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre in Melbourne, and is a current NHMRC Career Development Fellow. Suzi also holds an Honorary Professorial appointment at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Burnet Institute, is a Conjoint Senior Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (UNSW Sydney), and is an Honorary Research Fellow, Alfred Hospital Pharmacy Department. Suzi has been a registered pharmacist for over 20 years with clinical experience in the treatment of substance use disorders includes in specialist drug treatment and community-based alcohol and drug treatment settings in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has published over 110 scientific publications and given over 170 national and international conference presentations on her research, which has led to a greater understanding of how to identify and respond to prescription and over-the-counter drug-related problems. Her recent work has a focus on reducing opioid-related harm and overdose prevention. Suzi has worked with Australian state and federal governments to reduce opioid-related and other drug harm, is a current member of the Therapeutic Goods Administration Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling and has acted as an advisor for the World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Drug Dependence.

VICTORIA REPRESENTATIVE

Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen

Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen (BPharmSc[Hons] PhD MPS) is the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre in Melbourne, and is a current NHMRC Career Development Fellow. Suzi also holds an Honorary Professorial appointment at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Burnet Institute, is a Conjoint Senior Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (UNSW Sydney), and is an Honorary Research Fellow, Alfred Hospital Pharmacy Department. Suzi has been a registered pharmacist for over 20 years with clinical experience in the treatment of substance use disorders includes in specialist drug treatment and community-based alcohol and drug treatment settings in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has published over 110 scientific publications and given over 170 national and international conference presentations on her research, which has led to a greater understanding of how to identify and respond to prescription and over-the-counter drug-related problems. Her recent work has a focus on reducing opioid-related harm and overdose prevention. Suzi has worked with Australian state and federal governments to reduce opioid-related and other drug harm, is a current member of the Therapeutic Goods Administration Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling and has acted as an advisor for the World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Drug Dependence.

TASMANIA REPRESENTATIVE Dr Jackie Hallam
	Dr Jackie Hallam is the Policy and Research Officer in the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Council in Tasmania. Jackie obtained her Doctorate in Political Science and Public Policy in 2006. Her thesis was titled- ‘The Rise and Stall of Harm Reduction Policy in Australia 1980 to 2000’. This work examined the conditions in which policy change occurred using the ‘Advocacy Coalition Framework’. Across 20 years Jackie has worked in many roles in the AOD sector, including frontline, workforce development and research. As a policy officer in a peak body, Jackie is deeply committed to addressing stigma around drug use and contributing to the agenda that drug use be seen as a health issue.

TASMANIA REPRESENTATIVE

Dr Jackie Hallam

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Dr Jackie Hallam is the Policy and Research Officer in the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Council in Tasmania. Jackie obtained her Doctorate in Political Science and Public Policy in 2006. Her thesis was titled- ‘The Rise and Stall of Harm Reduction Policy in Australia 1980 to 2000’. This work examined the conditions in which policy change occurred using the ‘Advocacy Coalition Framework’. Across 20 years Jackie has worked in many roles in the AOD sector, including frontline, workforce development and research. As a policy officer in a peak body, Jackie is deeply committed to addressing stigma around drug use and contributing to the agenda that drug use be seen as a health issue.

QUEENSLAND REPRESENTATIVE Dr Zoe Walter
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QUEENSLAND REPRESENTATIVE

Dr Zoe Walter

coming soon...

NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVE Dr Cassandra Wright
	Dr Cassandra Wright is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. Her research focuses on alcohol as a public health issue and she currently works on evaluations of major alcohol policies and programs in the Northern Territory. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research and Burnet Institute. Through these collaborations she continues her work focused on alcohol use among middle-aged women and working mothers (CAPR) and young people’s health and wellbeing (Burnet). She holds a PhD in public health and undergraduate qualifications in health promotion.

NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATIVE

Dr Cassandra Wright

Dr Cassandra Wright is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. Her research focuses on alcohol as a public health issue and she currently works on evaluations of major alcohol policies and programs in the Northern Territory. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research and Burnet Institute. Through these collaborations she continues her work focused on alcohol use among middle-aged women and working mothers (CAPR) and young people’s health and wellbeing (Burnet). She holds a PhD in public health and undergraduate qualifications in health promotion.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE Grace Oh
	Grace Oh is a Senior Workforce Development Officer at the Mental Health Commission (MHC) WA. Grace is the WA Naloxone Project Lead and works collaboratively with alcohol and other drugs and Health services to deliver state-wide WA Naloxone Programs. Grace currently sits on the MHC Overdose Strategy Group and Early Warning System as well as the National Naloxone Reference Group. Grace has 20 years’ experience in the alcohol and other drugs sector and is passionate about innovative Harm Reduction and Peer Education approaches to reduce drug-related harm and deaths in the WA community. Grace is also the Principal Consultant for Australian Drug Education & Consultancy, providing drug education for safer events and reducing drug related harm in the community.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA REPRESENTATIVE

Grace Oh

Grace Oh is a Senior Workforce Development Officer at the Mental Health Commission (MHC) WA. Grace is the WA Naloxone Project Lead and works collaboratively with alcohol and other drugs and Health services to deliver state-wide WA Naloxone Programs. Grace currently sits on the MHC Overdose Strategy Group and Early Warning System as well as the National Naloxone Reference Group. Grace has 20 years’ experience in the alcohol and other drugs sector and is passionate about innovative Harm Reduction and Peer Education approaches to reduce drug-related harm and deaths in the WA community. Grace is also the Principal Consultant for Australian Drug Education & Consultancy, providing drug education for safer events and reducing drug related harm in the community.

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE Dr David Newcombe
	Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Head Social & Community Health, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Dr Newcombe is a Senior Lecturer in alcohol and drug studies in the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. He is the Academic Director of the Post Graduate Alcohol and Drug Studies programme and also an Associate Director of the Centre for Addiction Research. He has had over 20 years’ experience working in various clinical and education roles in the addiction sector in both Australia and New Zealand. Prior to coming to New Zealand, he was Senior Project Officer at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in the Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Problems responsible for managing large international studies and, coordinated the Post Graduate Addiction programme, both at the University of Adelaide. His current research interests include: Screening and brief interventions for problematic alcohol and drug use; The clinical pharmacology of pharmacotherapies used for the treatment of dependence; Cognitive effects of drugs of abuse; The impact of co- existing problems (including prescription medication use) on well-being.

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE

Dr David Newcombe

Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Head Social & Community Health, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Dr Newcombe is a Senior Lecturer in alcohol and drug studies in the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. He is the Academic Director of the Post Graduate Alcohol and Drug Studies programme and also an Associate Director of the Centre for Addiction Research. He has had over 20 years’ experience working in various clinical and education roles in the addiction sector in both Australia and New Zealand. Prior to coming to New Zealand, he was Senior Project Officer at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in the Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Problems responsible for managing large international studies and, coordinated the Post Graduate Addiction programme, both at the University of Adelaide. His current research interests include: Screening and brief interventions for problematic alcohol and drug use; The clinical pharmacology of pharmacotherapies used for the treatment of dependence; Cognitive effects of drugs of abuse; The impact of co- existing problems (including prescription medication use) on well-being.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW Professor Robin Room
	Robin Room is a sociologist who has directed alcohol and drug research centres in the United States, Canada and Sweden, and now in Australia, his native country. He is a professor and the Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and a professor at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University. He has received awards for scientific contributions in the U.S., Sweden and Australia, and the premier international award in alcohol studies, the Jellinek Memorial Award for Alcohol Studies. From 2006 to 2012, he was President of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, the national peak body of non-governmental organisations in the field. He has been an advisor for the World Health Organisation since 1975, has been a president of an international scientific society, the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, and is Editor-in-Chief of APSAD's scientific journal, the Drug and Alcohol Review. Professor Room’s research is on social, cultural and epidemiological studies of alcohol, drugs and gambling behaviour and problems, and studies of social responses to alcohol and drug problems and of the effects of policy changes. Recent books on which he is a co-author include Cannabis Policy: Moving beyond Stalemate; Drug Policy and the Public Good, and the 2^nd edition of Alcohol – No Ordinary Commodity, all published by Oxford UP.
DANA REPRESENTATIVE Dr Adam Searby
	Dr Adam Searby is a registered nurse who has worked across mental health and alcohol and other drug settings. He is the current president of the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia (DANA), the professional association for nurses working in the field in Australia and New Zealand. Adam is a lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne and has current research interests in the alcohol and other drug nursing workforce in Australia and New Zealand, and the wellbeing and workforce sustainability of the overall nursing workforce. He is currently involved in transforming the undergraduate nursing curriculum to improve skills of working with healthcare consumers who use alcohol and other drugs and to promote alcohol and other drug nursing as a rewarding career path.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW

Professor Robin Room

Robin Room is a sociologist who has directed alcohol and drug research centres in the United States, Canada and Sweden, and now in Australia, his native country. He is a professor and the Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and a professor at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University. He has received awards for scientific contributions in the U.S., Sweden and Australia, and the premier international award in alcohol studies, the Jellinek Memorial Award for Alcohol Studies. From 2006 to 2012, he was President of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, the national peak body of non-governmental organisations in the field. He has been an advisor for the World Health Organisation since 1975, has been a president of an international scientific society, the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, and is Editor-in-Chief of APSAD's scientific journal, the Drug and Alcohol Review. Professor Room’s research is on social, cultural and epidemiological studies of alcohol, drugs and gambling behaviour and problems, and studies of social responses to alcohol and drug problems and of the effects of policy changes. Recent books on which he is a co-author include Cannabis Policy: Moving beyond Stalemate; Drug Policy and the Public Good, and the 2^nd edition of Alcohol – No Ordinary Commodity, all published by Oxford UP.

DANA REPRESENTATIVE

Dr Adam Searby

Dr Adam Searby is a registered nurse who has worked across mental health and alcohol and other drug settings. He is the current president of the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia (DANA), the professional association for nurses working in the field in Australia and New Zealand. Adam is a lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne and has current research interests in the alcohol and other drug nursing workforce in Australia and New Zealand, and the wellbeing and workforce sustainability of the overall nursing workforce. He is currently involved in transforming the undergraduate nursing curriculum to improve skills of working with healthcare consumers who use alcohol and other drugs and to promote alcohol and other drug nursing as a rewarding career path.