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John Simes is the foundation director of the CTC and continues to direct its activities. He is recognised internationally for his expertise in the field of clinical trials and represents the CTC on many national and international committees.			Anthony Keech, cardiologist and epidemiologist, is deputy director of the CTC. He joined the CTC in 1992 after more than 5 years at Clinical Trials Research Unit of Oxford University in the UK.
He is also professor in the departments of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Sydney, and specialist medical oncologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He holds an MD from the University of Sydney in the area of cancer trials and an SM from Harvard in biostatistics.			He is professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Sydney and a practising consultant cardiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Professor Keech is chairman of the FIELD study on heart disease and diabetes, the largest trial involving diabetic patients, and he has a special interest in heart disease in the Asian-Pacific area.


Wendy Hague is clinical trials program director of the CTC. She is primarily responsible for the successful conduct of the CTC’s large-scale, multicentre clinical trials and ensuring that trials systems, procedures and methods are of the highest standard.
Wendy has medical qualifications, an MBA, and a PhD in clinical trials methodology.

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