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VICTORIAN INSTITUTE of FORENSIC MEDICINE VICTORIAN INSTITUTE of FORENSIC MEDICINE Annual Report 2009/10 REPORT OF OPERATIONS ACCOUNTABLE OFFICER’S DECLARATION In accordance with Financial Management Act 1994, I am pleased to present the Report of Operations for the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine for the year ending 30 June 2010 CONTENTS Vision, Mission and Values 2 Who We Are 3 Chairman’s Report 6 Director’s Report 8 Obituaries 12 Professor John Harber Phillips QC 12 Emeritus Professor Graeme Calderwood Schofield 13 Services 15 Service Structure 15 Medico-Legal Death Investigation Services 16 Forensic Pathology Services 20 Clinical Forensic Medicine Services 25 Forensic Scientific Services 28 Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria 31 Teaching, Training and Research 33 Department of Forensic Medicine 33 National and International Program 37 Supporting Services 40 Occupational Health and Environment Safety 44 Corporate Governance 46 Council Members 47 Management Responsibility 50 Financial Performance 52 Legislative and Statutory Reporting 55 VIFM Risk Attestation 59 Appendix A: Publications 60 Appendix B: Conference Presentations and Abstracts 63 Appendix C: Presentations 65 Appendix D: Committees 67 Appendix E: VIFM Staff 70 Appendix F: VIFM Contract Staff 72 Financial Statements 73 VIFM Annual Report 1 VISION, MISSION AND VALUES Our Vision • contribute more broadly to community health and safety (of communities in Australia and overseas); The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (“the Institute”) is a statutory authority incorporated under the Victorian • increase knowledge through teaching and research; and Institute of Forensic Medicine Act 1985. It operates under • enable the provision of high quality human tissue grafts for the auspices of the Department of Justice, reporting to transplantation. Parliament through the Attorney-General. We are also the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University with Respect: We respect all people, our history, our calling and our Director, Professor Stephen Cordner, holding the Chair the law. of Forensic Medicine. Our statutory responsibilities are to provide independent, Openness: We are open minded. We are open to each expert and credible forensic medical and scientific services other, and open to knowledge and learning. to the justice system, tissue for transplantation, to teach and to undertake research. Service: We provide services for the community that are dedicated, responsive and client focused. Our Mission Integrity: We will be beyond reproach. We commit to truth, We will be recognised for excellence in what we do. confidentiality, impartiality and accountability. We commit to systems that are secure, reliable, accurate, valid and safe. Our Values (ROSII) Innovation: We are creative and curious. We are not afraid Underpinned by ethical principles our purpose is to: to do things differently. We will continue our search for knowledge and truth. • provide independent forensic medical services to the Victorian public and justice system; t . op ec en sp n e e r s s . n s o e i r t v a i v c o e n . n i i n . t e y t g i r 2 VIFM Annual Report WHO WE ARE Our Legislation • to provide facilities and staff for the conduct of examinations in relation to deaths investigated under this The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine Act 1985 Act; provides the main statutory framework for the Institute’s operations, setting out its objects, functions, powers and • to conduct chemical, microscopic, serological, other requirements. The Coroners Act 2008 provides further toxicological and other examinations of tissue and legislative requirements for our role as medical investigators fluids taken from deceased persons coming under the undertaking autopsies and other medical and scientific jurisdiction of coroners in Victoria; examinations to assist coroners. The Human Tissue Act • to identify by radiological or odontological examination 1982 sets the rules under which the Donor Tissue Bank of or other means the remains of deceased persons whose Victoria (DTBV) undertakes its work. Compliance with the deaths are being investigated under this Act; Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 also underpins the operation of the DTBV. • to conduct other appropriate investigations or examinations in relation to the cause of death of Section 64(2) of The VIFM Act 1985 provides that the any person; objects of the Institute are: • to properly document and record findings and results of • to provide, promote and assist in the provision of forensic investigations and examinations; pathology and related services in Victoria and, as far as practicable, oversee and co-ordinate those services in • to provide reports to coroners about the medical causes of Victoria; deaths and the findings and results of investigations and examinations; • to promote, provide and assist in the post-graduate instruction and training of trainee specialist pathologists in • to provide tissue banking facilities and services the field of forensic pathology in Victoria; • to ensure the provision of clinical forensic medical services • to promote, provide and assist in the post-graduate to the police force of Victoria and government bodies in instruction and training of persons qualified in biological accordance with agreements for services between those sciences in the fields of toxicological and forensic science bodies and the Institute; and in Victoria; to investigate, assess and instigate appropriate responses in • to provide training facilities for doctors, medical respect of: undergraduates and such other persons as may be considered appropriate by the Council to assist in the i. The health or safety of a living sibling of a deceased proper functioning of the Institute; child; and • to conduct research in the fields of forensic pathology, ii. The health of a parent of a deceased child, where the forensic science, clinical forensic medicine and associated death of that child constitutes a reviewable death. fields as approved by the Council; The Human Tissue Act 1982 regulates the donation and • to provide, promote and assist in the provision of clinical retrieval of human tissue before and after death, prohibits the forensic medicine and related services to Victoria Police trading in human tissue and gives a legal definition of death. and government bodies; Our History • to promote, provide and assist in under graduate and post graduate instruction in the field of clinical forensic medicine Behind the establishment of the Victorian Institute of in Victoria; Forensic Pathology (VIFP) as a statutory authority in 1987 was a national debate surrounding compromised evidence • to promote, provide and assist in the teaching of and in coronial and forensic cases and the absolute need for training in clinical forensic medicine within medical, legal, independence in providing high-quality forensic scientific general health and other education programs; evidence. VIFP roles and functions were enshrined in • to contribute to reducing the number of preventable legislation as a policy response intended to address the deaths and to promote public health and safety and the substandard forensic services, mortuary and autopsy administration of justice; and facilities that existed at the time. • to provide tissue banking facilities and services. To provide credible evidence to the courts, it was important to establish the VIFP as a dual entity with Monash University. Section 66 of the VIFM Act 1985 provides that the functions The cycle of service, teaching and research, where each of the Institute are: informs and strengthens the other, underpins our ability to contribute to justice, the community and Victorian families. VIFM Annual Report 3 WHO WE ARE continued By providing an intellectually stimulating environment it Our People contributes to our sustainability, making us a more attractive place to work. Our greatest and most valued asset is our highly skilled and committed workforce. We currently employ 162 staff In 1995 the Institute amalgamated with the professional working across the institute in a variety of specialist medical, discipline of clinical forensic medicine and reflected this scientific, technical, research and administrative fields. growth by a name change to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. The relationship with Monash Positioning VIFM to meet the challenge of attracting and University expanded correspondingly to provide retaining a skilled workforce in today’s competitive market postgraduate training for qualifications in clinical forensic requires us to be innovative. We must attract, develop medicine and forensic pathology. Our position within and retain employees of the highest quality and provide a Monash University strengthens our academic reach. working and learning environment that will allow employees to maximise their contribution to the achievement of VIFM’s For more than twenty years, the Institute has provided goals. Victorian and international communities with expert and credible forensic medical services and tissue for VIFM recognises the importance of the contribution of transplantation. The Institute exists to promote, improve and the Institute’s people and VIFM’s obligation to provide a sustain forensic medicine and related disciplines through safe, supportive and stimulating work environment for all its service delivery and integrated teaching and research its employees that values, recognises and rewards effort functions. Dedicated research combined with the unique appropriately. and rich information sets at VIFM helps build our knowledge
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