Management and Executive Committee Details

 

 

A/Professor Lindy McAllister was the inaugural Head of the Speech Pathology program at Charles Sturt University in Albury, NSW.  This was the first Speech Pathology program to be established outside an urban centre in Australia.  This program has become well-known for its community based models of practice and social models of disability as frameworks for its curriculum.  Her interest in Vietnam has been ongoing since commencing a clinical education program for students from Charles Sturt University at Phu My Orphanage, HCMC, in 2001.  Associate Professor McAllister has recently taken up a position as a Deputy Head of the University of Queensland Medical School. 

 

Mrs Sue Woodward first joined the Project Boomerang Cleft Care Team in 2007 as a self-funded Consultant Speech Pathologist, travelling to Vietnam twice per year.  Sue has over 30 years of clinical experience and is a Conjoint Fellow in Speech Pathology at The University of Newcastle where she assists with clinical education associated with Working in Developing Communities.

 

Dr Aziz Sahu-Khan has been travelling to Vietnam as a self-funded volunteer three times per year since 2003.  As well as having a busy private practice, Dr Sahu-Khan specialises in the Orthodontic care of children born in the Hunter region with a cleft condition.  He is also a member of the multi-disciplinary cleft care team at the John Hunter Children’s Hospital, Newcastle.  Dr Sahu-Khan is a co-founder and director of the Project Boomerang Cleft Care Team which travels to Vietnam three times per year to treat children and adults with cleft conditions.

 

Dr Alison Winkworth is an award-winning lecturer with a special interest in teaching and learning. She is a speech pathology academic and clinician associated with Charles Sturt University in southern NSW. She has worked at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland and in 2004 was a visiting professor at Gothenburg University in Sweden.  Alison travelled to Vietnam in 2009 as part of the teaching team for the short course in key topics of speech therapy, and has since helped develop the curriculum for the formal speech therapy course at Pham Ngoc Thach University, HCMC.  Her clinical and academic specialty is in voice disorders and laryngology.