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AGIRF has five directors: Michael Kamm, Frank Tisher. Bruce Hartnett, Thomas Jacob and Raymond Shaw
MICHAEL KAMM
PROFESSOR OF
GASTROENTEROLOGY
Professor Michael Kamm is a gastroenterologist in clinical practice at Central Melbourne Gastroenterology and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, and has an academic position at The University of Melbourne.
Originally from Melbourne, Professor
Michael Kamm spent 22 years working in London at St Mark’s, the world renowned specialist gastrointestinal hospital, and Imperial College. He returned to Melbourne in 2008.
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He has been responsible for major research programmes that have resulted in substantial, worldwide advances in medical practice. These include the management of childbirth damage in young women, the creation of multi-disciplinary clinics to provide behavioural and psychological therapies for patients with gut disorders, the discovery of new forms of gut muscle disease and their treatments, the causes and management of inflammatory bowel diseases in adolescents and young adults, and programmes aimed at preventing the development of bowel cancer in patients with gut inflammation.
FRANK TISHER
LEGAL
Frank Tisher OAM has been in legal practice since 1968. He is involved in a broad range of community affairs.
He has served on the executive of a range of charitable bodies, including the National Gallery Society, and is a past president of Emmy Monash Aged Care Inc.
He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2014 for his philanthropic and charitable work.