Dr Maryann Turner, FANZCA (Vic)

Dr Maryann Turner, FANZCA (Vic)

ANZCA Councillor 

LLB(Hons) 2004, MBBS 2010, GCertCU 2017, GDLP 2006, MHlth&MedLaw 2014, GAICD 2021, MACLM SupCrtNSW 2006, FANZCA 2018

Nominated by: Dr Rodney Mitchell (SA) and Professor David Story (Vic) (2022)

Statement

Dr Maryann Turner is a staff specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, with fellowship experience at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, Auckland's Starship Hospital, and Queensland Children’s Hospital. 

Her longstanding interest in advocacy, wellbeing and research led to co-chairing the 2017 ANZCA Trainee Committee, co-establishing Australia’s first anaesthesia trainee-led research network and engagement with multiple ANZCA committees, working groups and special interest group executives.

Before becoming an anaesthetist, Maryann was admitted as a lawyer of the NSW Supreme Court; completed a masters in medical law; and worked in corporate and criminal law.

Current and previous service on ANZCA committees and other roles

  • New Fellow Councillor, ANZCA Council - 2020-2022.
  • Chair, Awards Review Working Group - 2020-2021.
  • Member, Professional Affairs Executive Committee - 2020-to 2022.
  • Member, Emerging Investigators Subcommittee - 2020 to date.
  • Member, Trainee Bursary Evaluation Subcommittee - 2020 to date.
  • Member, Foundation Working Group - 2020-2021.
  • Member, Standards Project Working Group - 2021 to date.
  • Member, Technology Assisted Examinations Working Group - 2020-2021.
  • Member, Trainee Wellbeing Project Group - 2020-2021.
  • Ex officio Member, NSW Regional Committee - 2020 to date.
  • Paediatric Workshop Convenor, Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney - 2023.
  • New Fellow Representative, Emerging Leaders Conference - 2021-2022.
  • Member, ANZCA/NZSA/ASA Wellbeing Special Interest Group Executive Committee - 2022.
  • Co-chair, ANZCA Trainee Committee - 2017-2018.
  • Chair, Queensland Trainee Committee - 2016-2018.
  • Co-Chair, Trainee Wellbeing Working Group - 2017-2019.
  • Chair, Trainee Survey Project Group - 2018.
  • Member, Mentoring Working Group - 2017-18.
  • Member, Training Evolution and Managing Change Project Group - 2017-2018.

Past and/or current appointments in other relevant professional organisations

  • Paediatric Anaesthetist, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney - 2020 to date.
  • Trust Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, United Kingdom - 2020.
  • Fellow, Starship Children’s Hospital, New Zealand  - 2019.
  • Provisional Fellow, Queensland Children’s Hospital - 2018.
  • Editor, Anaesthesia Reports, United Kingdom Association of Anaesthetists - 2020 to date.
  • Member, Australasian College of Legal Medicine (MACLM) - 2017 to date.
  • Member, SPANZA Research Committee - 2021 to date.
  • Member, SPANZA Guidelines Committee - 2021 to date.
  • Lecturer, School of Clinical Medicine, Children’s Health Queensland Clinical Unit, University of Queensland - 2018 – 2021.
  • Instructor, Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - 2019 to date.
  • Foster carer, Heart & Soul Rescue Inc - 2021 to date.
  • Trainee Member Representative, ASA Economics Advisory Committee - 2017-2018.
  • Queensland Representative, ASA Trainee Member Group - 2016-2018.
  • Co-chair, Queensland Anaesthetic Registrars’ Research Collaborative - 2017-2020.

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Last updated 07:24 24.03.2023