MEET OUR ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM
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.
THOMAS JACOB
Thomas Eric Jacob OAM, Managing Director of private company, Ironman 4x4 for the past 38 years. Ironman 4x4 is a global leading brand of 4x4 Accessories and Outdoor leisure products.
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Tom was awarded an OAM for Philanthropy in supporting a wide range of charitable institutions.
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.
BRUCE HARTNETT
Bruce Charles Hartnett AM has a 30 year career in the Victorian and Australian Governments, in the private sector with ICI and the National Australia Bank, and at the ACTU. For 10 years he was Chair of the Victorian Public Sector Commission, and on the Board of VicSuper and the RACV. He was Chair, for 8 years, of Odyssey House, Victoria - a leading alcohol and drug rehabilitation organisation. Member of the Victorian Government Review of University Governance.
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Bruce received an Order of Australia for his voluntary work on a range of educational issues which included 22 years as the President of the Council of the School for Student Leadership (originally known as the Alpine School).
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RAYMOND GIDEON SHAW
Dr Gideon Shaw is a consultant gastroenterologist. He founded the Waverley Endoscopy Centre in 1991 and continues to run this centre as one of the directors.
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Gideon completed undergraduate medical training at Prince Henry's and St Vincent's Hospitals, Melbourne and at the University of Texas. He was a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospitals, and remains heavily involved in training gastroenterologists. Gideon maintains a strong interest in the ethics of medicine and medical practice, having completed a post-graduate Master's degree in Bioethics.
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