Steering Committee
The Western Australian Comprehensive Kids Cancer Centre is guided by a Steering Committee that provides strategic direction and oversight, ensuring the Centre remains aligned with its vision and accountable to its partners, funders and the community.
The Steering Committee brings together senior representatives from the Centre’s key partners and funders and is responsible for the Centre’s governance, approving strategic plans and budgets, and monitoring progress against agreed milestones.
Through this oversight, the Steering Committee ensures the Centre remains sustainable, strategically focused and aligned with its vision for a future where all kids with cancer survive and thrive.
Steering Committee Members
Stan Perron Charitable Foundation – Gervase Chaney, Research and Partnerships Manager (Chair)
Child and Adolescent Health Services – Valerie Buic, Chief Executive
The Kids Research Institute Australia – Jonathan Carapetis, Executive Director
The University of Western Australia – Anna Nowak, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research)
Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation – Carrick Robinson, Chief Executive Officer
Steering Committee Attendees
Clinical Director – Professor Nick Gottardo
Scientific Director – Professor Joost Lesterhuis
General Manager – Emma Stone
The WA Comprehensive Kids Cancer Centre envisions a future where all kids with cancer survive and thrive, through a collaboration integrating the clinical excellence delivered at Perth Children's Hospital and the research expertise of The Kids Research Institute Australia and The University of Western Australia.
The Centre, made possible thanks to support from the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation and Perth Children's Hospital Foundation, is supercharging childhood cancer research and care.