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Ian Chesterman AM is the President of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), having served as a Vice President from 2016-2022. He was first elected to the AOC Executive in 2001. 

Ian has a long record of leading Australian Olympic Teams. 

He was Chef de Mission of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and six Olympic Winter Games – 1998 Nagano, 2002 Salt Lake City, 2006 Torino, 2010 Vancouver, 2014 Sochi and 2018 PyeongChang. 

In leading the team to Tokyo, Ian became the first Australian to head both a summer and winter Olympic Team, and the first to lead a total of seven Olympic teams. 

He was also Chef de Mission of the Australian Team to the 2016 Olympic Youth Winter Games in Lillehammer. 

Ian is on the Board of Brisbane 2032, the Australia Oceania Foundation and is Chair of the Australian Olympic Foundation. He is also on the Executive of ONOC (Oceania National Olympic Committees). 

He was made a Life Member of the Australian Olympic Committee in May 2018 and a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019 for his service to the Olympic Movement. 

Dr Al Burns is a fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeon from Canberra, having done a fellowship in London, Ontario, Canada. He predominantly performs lower limb joint replacement and hip arthroscopy surgery, and his interests include the management of prosthetic joint infection, and techniques for its reduction. Particular career highlights include getting an outside edge from batsman Jonathan Mulford in the northside-southside cricket match in 2004, which was unfortunately dropped at second slip. He also thinks that he is funnier than he actually is.  

Prof Ashish Gupta

MBBS MSC FRACS FAOrthA

 

CEO and Founder Akunah

Data Driven Personalised Healthcare

https://akunah.com

 

Founder and Director of QUASR

Queensland Unit for Advanced Shoulder Research

https://www.quasr.com.au

https://jointbiomechanics.org

 

 

Dr Gupta is a Sub specialist shoulder surgeon working in Brisbane Australia. His practice solely comprises of shoulder surgery. He is a dedicated clinician and teacher. He is the Director of the QUASR Shoulder Clinical Fellowship.

 

Prof Gupta is actively involved in basic science research at the Queensland University of Technology and is the founding Director of QUASR - Queensland Unit for Advanced Shoulder Research.  QUASR is a dedicated research organisation with over 70 personnel with a key focus on biomechanical, tissue, 3 D printing, robotics and computational research into the shoulder. This is now the parent organisation for Australian Research Council Training Center in Joint Biomechanics ( ARC ITTC JB) 

 

He Completed his Orthopaedic training in Queensland. Dr Gupta completed advanced shoulder arthroscopy and arthroplasty fellowships with Dr Lafosse (France), Dr Seebauer (Germany) and at Fowler Kennedy sports clinic and / Hand and Upper Limb Clinic G Athwal/R Litchfield (Canada) where he also completed his Masters.

 

His interest in data powered integrated personalised healthcare; computer modelling, patient outcome / AI driven Pre Op planning and Mixed Reality driven surgical intervention has led to Akunah which Ashish is the CEO of Akunah is driving towards bringing Australian Health tech to a global market. https://akunah.com/

Adj/Prof Michael McAuliffe graduated from the University of Qld in 1996. He subsequently undertook subspeciality training in knee and sports surgery. His research interests are focussed on arthroplasty surgery, particularly in relation to the knee. He received his doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology for work based around the soft tissues of the osteoarthritic knee and their impacts on joint replacement surgery. He was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship in 2016 and has received the AOA Humanitarian Award for Outreach work in the pacific islands and for commitments to cancer research. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications and has presented at multiple conferences. Since 2023, he has been one of the Deputy Clinical Directors of the AOANJRR.