Steering Committee

Professor Kim L Moretti MBBS FRACS (Urol). Chair and Principal Investigator  
Professor, School of Population Health, Health Sciences, University of South Australia; Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Flinders University; Clinical Lecturer, Discipline of Surgery, University of Adelaide; Prostate Cancer Stream Leader, and Member Steering Committee, SA Comprehensive Cancer Consortium, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), and Member Prostate Cancer Sub Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Uro-Genital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP). Prof Kim Moretti is Head of Urology at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was Chairman of the Urological Society SA/NT section in 2009, is on the Board of Directors of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ), and has served on the executive committee of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons SA section. He has undertaken post-graduate and fellowship studies at the Institute of Urology and University College, London. He chairs the Steering Committee of SA-PCCOC and, with extensive experience in teaching and medical education, provides strong mentorship and support for trainees undertaking research.

Dr Kym Horsell MBBS FRACS(Urol). Deputy Chair  
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Flinders Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Flinders University. Dr Horsell is a Visiting Urologist at the Repatriation General Hospital. After undertaking his specialty training in Urology in Sydney and Adelaide, he did his fellowship training at the Bristol Urological Institute.   Previous positions include SA Chairman of Training and Education  for urological training, and a committee member of the SA Section of the Continence foundation of Australia. He also provides a visiting urological service to Royal Darwin Hospital.  He has a strong interest in promoting awareness of male health issues, and would like to raise the profile of the PCCOC in the  South Australian community.

Dr Michael O’Callaghan BSc (Hons) PhD. Executive Officer  
Michael is Senior Researcher and Educator at the Repatriation General Hospital, Urology Unit, SA-PCCOC Executive Officer and Affiliate Senior Lecturer at Flinders University and University of Adelaide. Dr O’Callaghan joined SA-PCCOC in 2013.  Further details can be found here: Linkedin and publications here: Google Scholar.

Braden Higgs

Dr Kerri Beckmann PhD, MPH. (Senior Research Fellow, University of South Australia). Kerri contributes extensive experience in cancer epidemiology and knowledge of cancer registry data in South Australia. She has skills in the collection, management and analysis of epidemiological data with strong focus on Prostate cancer care and outcomes.

Ganessan Kichenadasse

Tina Kopsaftis BSc, our Data Coordinator is responsible for data acquisition and data quality. She has been involved with the database since 2003 and has extensive knowledge of data sources in public and private sectors and established successful liaisons with each of the private practices involved with our organisation. She assists with the retrieval of data for analysis and for the creation of conference abstracts, posters, publications and grant applications.

Mr David Merry provides a consumer perspective, and Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia liaison.

Sophie Otto

Ken Pittman

Scott Walsh BNg, Grad Cert Critical Care. Scott is the founder of Envido. Through Envido he provides database management support. Further details can be found in Linkedin.

Research Committee

Dr Kerri Beckmann PhD, MPH. Chair  
Senior Research Fellow, University of South Australia. Kerri contributes extensive experience in cancer epidemiology and knowledge of cancer registry data in South Australia. She has skills in the collection, management and analysis of epidemiological data with strong focus on Prostate cancer care and outcomes.

Dr Alex Jay Deputy Chair

Rick Catterwell

Kirsten Gormly

Ganessan Kichenadasse

Tina Kopsaftis

John Leung

David Moffatt

Kim Moretti

Michael O’Callaghan

Kerry Santoro

Scott Walsh

Dr Michael O’Callaghan BSc (Hons) PhD. Michael is Senior Researcher and Educator at the Repatriation General Hospital, Urology Unit, SA-PCCOC Executive Officer and Affiliate Senior Lecturer at Flinders University and University of Adelaide. Dr O’Callaghan joined SA-PCCOC in 2013.  Further details can be found here: Linkedin and publications here: Google Scholar.

Tina Kopsaftis BSc, our Data Coordinator is responsible for data acquisition and data quality. She has been involved with the database since 2003 and has extensive knowledge of data sources in public and private sectors and established successful liaisons with each of the private practices involved with our organisation. She assists with the retrieval of data for analysis and for the creation of conference abstracts, posters, publications and grant applications.

Scott Walsh BNg, Grad Cert Critical Care. Scott is the founder of Envido. Through Envido he provides database management support. Further details can be found in Linkedin.

Elspeth Raymond RN, Grad Cert Perioperative Nursing, has co-authored on five systematic reviews that have examined the optimum prognostic tools predicting outcomes in prostate cancer. She is also responsible for providing data collection to the SA Prostate Cancer Clinical Outcomes Database.

Helen Claridge –  Dip App Sc (Nursing); BNg ; Grad Cert Perioperative Nursing; Grad Dip Public Health,  is responsible for providing data collection to the SA-PCCOC database.

Olivia Stockman – Administration Assistant