MAWA Trustees

Ms Elizabeth Ahlston

Ms Elizabeth Ahlston was co-founder of MAWA and is a trustee, board member and MAWA’s current Secretary. She has over 35 years experience and expertise in promoting alternative methodologies to replace the use of animals in teaching, testing and research.

Elizabeth’s involvement began when she established a specialist division within the World League for the Protection of Animals (WLPA) and she was the Australian representative of the UK-based Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) for several years. In 1978 she founded the Australian Association for Humane Research (AAHR) and was its President and Public Officer for 26 years. In 1990 Elizabeth established The New Educational Aids in Medicine and Science Trust (NEAMS) to support university departments in developing biological science programs to replace animals being used in routine teaching.

When science and medical departments began turning to non-animal teaching methods, such as the use of computers and videos, it was recognised that the NEAMS Trust had served it purpose and it was wound up so that a new organisation could be established. Elizabeth, together with Associate Professor Garry Scroop, then founded The Medical Advances Without Animals Trust with its goal to advance medical science and improve human health by encouraging the development and use of non-animal methodologies to replace animals in both medical and scientific research.

Professor Anne Keogh

Professor Anne Keogh MBBS MD FRACP is a MAWA trustee, board member and member of MAWA’s Scientific Advisory Panel. She is an Honorary Associate of the Great Apes Project at the University of Sydney, and provides clinical care of orang-utans and gorillas at Taronga Zoological Park. Anne supports a number of animal protection organisations along with other charities and community based organisations.

Anne is Professor in Medicine at the University of NSW, Joint Head of the Clinical Research Program in the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and the Senior Cardiologist in Cardiac Transplantation at St Vincent’s Hospital. She completed her Medical Doctorate at the University of New South Wales on Clinical Aspects of Heart Transplantation in 1989. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, Assistant Editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation and a member and a Past President of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Anne is also founder and President of the Pulmonary Hypertension Society of Australia and New Zealand (2011).

Anne was a recipient of a Fullbright Scholarship and has worked in a variety of settings in Australia and overseas. She has established a National Centre of Excellence for Heart Transplantation, Heart Failure and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Anne's current research interests are cardiac failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension, heart transplantation, immunosuppression and alternatives to transplantation. She reviews for an extensive number of international journals and has published widely with more than 250 peer reviewed articles and 300 abstracts since 1984.

The Hon Kevin Rozzoli AM

The Hon Kevin Rozzoli AM was a foundation member of MAWA’s board and is a trustee and MAWA’s current Chair. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales for thirty years, as speaker of the house for seven years and Chair of his Party's State Policy Committee for four years. Kevin retired from politics in 2003. Throughout his political career Kevin spoke out strongly against animal experimentation and for the promotion of alternative methodologies.

In 1985 Kevin was admitted as a barrister-at-law to the NSW Bar. In 1999 he was honoured by the University of Western Sydney, which conferred on him a Doctorate of Letters in recognition of his services to the University and Western Sydney. Kevin is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Management at Monash University. He is also Chair of a number of organisations and a Director of two university centres. Kevin is author of, Gavel to Gavel, An Insiders’ View of Parliament, on the New South Wales Parliament, its practices and procedures, which was published in 2006.

Kevin’s main interest in public life has been in land-use planning and environmental matters but he is also actively involved in many other organisations and projects. Kevin was awarded an Order of Australia for service to the New South Wales Parliament and to the community of Sydney through a range of environmental protection, health, welfare, and educational organisations.