Robin Woolford, President

Robin is the Assistant Director, Research and Development in Biomedical Engineering at the Flinders Medical Centre. Previous positions were Manager Biomedical Engineering at the Repatriation General Hospital and Senior Technical Officer in Biomedical Engineering at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Robin has been on the council for many years having held positions of President, Secretary and councillor. He is currently Secretary and newsletter editor.

Anne-Louise Smith, Secretary, Webmaster
& Immediate Past President

Anne-Louise is a Biomedical Engineer in the Research & Development Group at Flinders Medical Center where they are keen to foster commercialisation of biomedical devices.    She has mainly been involved in the clinical support aspect of Biomedical Engineering since graduating from Swinburne Institute in 1984.  She has also worked in London, Brunei and, most recently Malaysia where she was part of the ECRI team advising the Ministry of Health on biomedical maintenance services to all the public hospitals.  A recent newcomer to Adelaide she is still learning where all the good coffee and food is to be found.

Daniel Fletcher, Treasurer

Daniel works in Biomedical Engineering at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He has also spent a year employed in the School of Engineering at Flinders University. His spare time is spent either rockclimbing or bushwalking.

Olivia Lockwood, Vice President & Newsletter Editor

Olivia is working at the Flinders Medical Centre in the Biomedical Engineering Department.  Olivia is involved in aiding Flinders Medical Centre Staff as well as Flinders University staff in research and development within the Biomedical Engineering field.

Adrian Richards

Adrian, a Senior Technical Officer within Clinical Engineering at the North Western Adelaide Health Service, has been actively involved with the SMBE and other Biomedical Engineering bodies for many years. Currently
filling the position of president, he also holds the position of president of the Australian Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. Other related activities include positions on the national boards of the College of Biomedical Engineers and the Society of Engineering Associates within the Institution of Engineers Australia. In his (little) spare time he in an active cave diver.

Darren Kohlhagen

Darren is currently a Service Engineer for Draeger Australia and has been in this position for 2 years. Previous background includes 6 years as a Biomedical Engineering Technician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and has completed the Diploma in Biomedical Engineering at Flinders University. He has been a SMBE member for the past 7 years and was recently elected as a councillor.

Greg Smith

Managing Director of Helicon Technology, a private biomedical engineering firm based in Adelaide. Commenced Helicon Technology 14 years ago.  Interests include music, computers and sailing.    Wants to compete in the 1999 Sydney to Hobard yacht race.  Is keen to foster the interests and disciplines of the biomedical community in South Australia.

Michael Ledgard 

New councillor nominatted to SMBE council in 2005. Michael is a Biomedical Engineer, working at the Women's and Children's Hopspital after graduating from the Flinders University in 2004. Michael has worked on a vast array of medical devices over the past year and is specialising in Neonatal Intensive Care equiment. He has recently been elected as a committee member on the SMBE and is thoroughly involved with the Society. He enjoys water and snow sports, a good Cab Sauv. or Shiraz and hits a pretty mean golf ball with a single figure handicap.

Briony Williams

Briony is a Biomedical Engineer working as a Biomedical Technical Officer in the Communications Engineering Department of the SA Ambulance Service (SAAS).  Her main role at SAAS is the repair and maintenance of Defibrillators and Resuscitation Simulators and Manikins.  Briony graduated from Flinders University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering and also jointly won the SMBE Outstanding Honours Project Award in 2006.  Her career goal is to one day specialise in Cardiac Imaging. Briony enjoys gardening, cooking, a good drop of wine and a hot cappuccino.

Past Council Members

Ray Liddle, Vice President

Manager, Clinical Engineering, Royal Adelaide Hospital since 1972, Ray has been involved in the SMBE since the same year.  His interests include restoring cars, wine appreciation and snow skiing.

Tony Carlisle

I have been an SMBE member for many years and I work as a team leader for clinical support in the BME department at Flinders Medical Centre. I have seen incredible change and great innovation over the past 25years and I believe that on going education is a key element in keeping up with the ever changing technologies, concepts and methodologies associated with BME.    I am currently loving house-boating on the Murray river.  

John Kirby Previous Webmaster

John has worked at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital since 1976 in various capacities within Biomedical Engineering.  Since 1996 he has been the Multi Media Officer with responsibility for Telehealth applications within the North Western Adelaide Health Service together with being Webmaster for both Intranet and  the Internet site.   

John has since moved to Government Information Communication Services as a Project Manager responsible for managing whole of government video conferencing and web projects.  John has been Treasurer of the SMBE since 1985, awarded Honorary Life Membership of the SMBE in August 2001 and is also a Board member and Treasurer of the Australasian Teleconferencing Association.
Outside interests are sailing and line dancing and lawn bowls.