2010 ANNUAL REPORT OUR PEOPLE RBWH Foundation has a small but dedicated POLLY BROWN team of people who believe in Royal Brisbane BBus (Communications) & Women’s Hospital and are committed to Marketing & Product Support ensuring the hospital is able to provide the (part-time) best care possible to its patients, ensuring the LESLEY WAUGH best outcomes for them and their families. Our Retail Offi cer (part-time) staff work tirelessly to raise funds for research, equipment and other services. Staff are regularly CATHY JOHNSTONE supported in their efforts by their own family and Accounts Support (part-time) friends, and to them we also say thank you. Our team as of 1 September 2010 is: PETER TRESEDER AM, KSJ, JP, DipFm, GradCertBus (Philanthropy & Npst), EMFIA, MAICD, FAIM, CFRE CEO OUR KAREN GALLAGHER BA, MFIA Marketing & Events Manager PATRON JULIE WRIGHT RBWH Foundation is honoured to have Her CA (NZ) Excellency, Ms Penelope Wensley AO, Governor of Financial Controller Queensland, as our patron. RITA GRICE We thank her for her endorsement and ongoing Offi ce Administrator support. ARI PANAGIOTOU BComm Business Development Manager Major Gifts & Corporate DEREK BROWN MBA (International) RBWH Business Development Manager, Major Gifts & Corporate FOUNDATION Block 20 ROSS BIRKETT Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Business Development Manager, Herston QLD 4006 Community & Bequests Phone: 07 3636 7588 Fax: 07 3636 1768 CATHY YANG BA, MPhil Email: [email protected] Business Development Manager, Web: www.rbwhfoundation.com.au Chinese/Asian Community Mail: PO Box 94 Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital NEAL STEPHEN QLD 4029 BA, mARMS Commercial Operations Manager DIANA CHRISTIE If you would like more information about RBWH Commercial Offi cer – TVs Foundation, or would like to fi nd out how you can support us in our activities, please contact us at MICHELLE POLLITT [email protected] or call 3636 7588 Event Support (part-time) during business hours. CONTENTS Chairman’s report ................................................................5 Chief Executive Offi cer’s report ................................................6 Individual support .................................................................9 Corporate support ..............................................................11 Community support ............................................................13 Right Royal events ..............................................................15 In Memoriam & bequests ....................................................17 Royal Family ......................................................................18 Research at the Royal ........................................................20 Research update ................................................................22 2010 RBWH Foundation Research Grant Award recipients .......23 Additional funding given .......................................................25 Our Board .........................................................................26 Statement of Comprehensive Income .....................................28 Statement of Financial Position .............................................29 In-kind supporters ..............................................................30 Committees and volunteers ..................................................31 Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Fondation PAGE 3 2010 Retravision Golf Day (from left) Matt Lyons, Derek Irvine, Andrew Mailer, David Brownscombe and Margaret Turner. Premier Anna Bligh got behind the 2010 Mother’s Day Appeal, joining students from St Finbars in Ashgrove to help promote the sale of RBWH Foundation’s ‘Hearts & Hugs’ tattoos. Glen Dwyer (seated) and his wife Jenny (far right) presenting a cheque for motor neurone disease research to Nicole Hutchinson and Dr Rob Henderson at RBWH. The money was raised at a charity golf day in Mackay which was organised Volunteers from Westpac helping out by Mr Dwyer’s close friend, Col Stevens, with the at the 2010 Right Royal Affair. support of the Mackay Cricket Association. 97.3Fm’s Robin, Terry and Bob interviewed Helen Lawrence from the Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit as part of their Mother’s Day Appeal broadcast from the front of the 82-year-old Royal Mum, Lorna Thompson, hospital on 7 May. fi nishing the 2009 Royal Run for Research. PAGE 4 Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Foundation THE FOUNDATION OF ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL RBWH Foundation was established 25 years ago The hospital also conducts extensive clinical as the charity arm of Royal Brisbane & Women’s research in the majority of these areas, and is Hospital (RBWH), Queensland’s largest hospital. home to a number of major research centres including the Perinatal Research Centre, Government funding for hospitals such as RBWH Neurology Research Centre and Burns, Trauma is often restricted by budgetary constraints, and and Critical Care Research Centre. available funding is being placed under further pressure as demand for hospital services The aim of research is, of course, to fi nd better increase in the face of an ageing population. treatments, methods of prevention and cures RBWH Foundation’s key purpose, therefore, is to for these conditions. Research, however, takes raise money that will enable our doctors, nurses, time and money and it can’t be done without researchers and allied health professionals to the generous support of individuals, community achieve optimal patient outcomes by providing groups and businesses. them with knowledge, skills and technology which may not otherwise be afforded. It is our aim You can support this research, or help fund that money generated through our fundraising other initiatives of RBWH Foundation, by making activities and donations enable the health a donation (see page 32 for a donation form), professionals at RBWH to attend additional purchasing merchandise, attending our various training programs, conferences and seminars, events, organising your own fundraising event, conduct vital research, provide additional leaving a bequest to the foundation in your will, facilities and services and purchase life-saving or nominating the foundation as your workplace’s equipment. charity of choice. RBWH is the busiest hospital in Queensland, There are many other ways you can help RBWH treating patients not only from Brisbane but Foundation, and we would be delighted to discuss from all over the State and Northern New South these opportunities with you or your company. Wales. While the hospital provides treatment Simply contact the foundation on 07 3636 7588 and care for most medical conditions and or visit www.rbwhfoundation.com.au. health issues, including the largest Cancer Care Service in Queensland, RBWH is particularly recognised as a leader in the fi elds of premature and seriously ill babies, burns and trauma care, emergency medicine, motor neurone disease, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, kidney disease, infl ammatory bowel disease, mental health (including - youth mental health, substance abuse, schizophrenia and dementia), health care in the aged and infectious diseases…just to name a few. Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Foundation PAGE 5 RBWH staff with some of our volunteers helping out at Opera at the Old Museum (from left) Sheelagh Cooper, Rita Grice, Jeanette Day, Karen Gallagher, Mieke Van Ravensberg. Staff from RBWH Maternity Outpatients and Obstetric Gynaecology got right behind RBWH Foundation’s Breast Cancer Awareness Week in October. PAGE 6 Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Foundation CHAIRMAN’S REPORT It has been a great time to be the foundation’s regard. For the fi rst time, the foundation can Chairman. Over the last three years I have truly claim to be the foundation for the hospital, witnessed the foundation grow from strength to providing support and encouragement to every strength. The foundation has a positive energy facet. Peter in particular has energized the about it which has radiated and encompassed team. Karen Gallagher, Ari Panagiotou, Rita everything and everybody that comes within its Grice, Neal Stephen, Cathy Yang, Julie Wright, orbit. Michelle Pollitt and Lesley Waugh have worked tirelessly. THE TEAM THE BOARD AND This is the result of the great team spirit which COMMITTEES currently exists in the foundation. Everyone believes in what they are doing and goes above My colleagues on the Board and its two and beyond to achieve the foundation’s mission subcommittees, the Finance and Risk of assisting the hospital provide the very best Management Committee and the Research health care possible for its patients and the Advisory Committee, are all volunteers and give patients of the world who will benefi t from the of their time and expertise to ensure that the numerous positive medical research outcomes very best governance is applied to every aspect pioneered by the hospital. of the foundation’s activities.The collective wisdom of Board members Hamish Doley, Lawrie OUR VOLUNTEERS Powell, Bruce Humphrys, Jenniwaty Luhur, John George, Peter Fardoulys and Scott McMullen is Our volunteers and supporters come in all invaluable. I am grateful to all. The unqualifi ed shapes and sizes and assist in many different fi nancial audit received from Queensland Audit ways and I thank everyone involved. I want to Offi ce in relation to this year’s fi nancial results is make particular mention of our Royal Mum testament to this. volunteers who regularly assist with many of our events. Also, a special thank you to the During the year, the Board welcomed