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Associate Professor Brian K Owler is an Australian neurosurgeon who was elected as president of the Australian Medical Association in May 2014 — just after the release of a controversial budget by the Abbott Government which included elements that, if passed, would have introduced patient co-payments for general practice services and cut funding to public hospitals and Indigenous health programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Australian Medical Association">title=Brian Owler elected AMA president )〕 Owler has opposed the Abbott government's Medicare copayment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GP co-payment was 'poorly designed policy', says AMA President Brian Owler )〕 Closer to home, this budget also denied funding to establish the Australasian Shunt Registry which was developed by Owler in order to address the relatively high rate of device-related complications in the management of hydrocephalus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hydrocephalus sufferers shunted on funding for a national register of operations )〕 Owler holds the position of Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School (also known as Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children), University of Sydney. He operates on paediatric and adult conditions in several Sydney hospitals, including Westmead Hospital, Sydney Adventist Hospital and Macquarie University Hospital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Practice )〕 A/Prof Owler is involved in several clinical studies including those on the topic of normal pressure hydrocephalus and deep brain stimulation surgery for the treatment of cerebral palsy. He has co-authored more than 40 academic papers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sydneyneurosurgeon.com.au/publications.html )〕 He has also written several opinion pieces for leading Australian papers〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Children take fall for society's dithering )〕 and online media.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Will Ebola be the West's next big regret? )〕 A/Prof Owler is a driving force and the face of the NSW 'Don’t Rush' anti-speeding campaign,〔(【引用サイトリンク】Roads & Maritime Services">title=Original Don't Rush )〕 and has appeared on billboards and in television ads warning of the risks and damage associated with road accidents. This advocacy arose from discussions with the relevant state minister while Owler was president of the NSW branch of the Australian Medical Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】ABC Radio National">title=Sunday Profile: Brian Owler, Australian Medical Association president )〕 In 2015, The Medical Journal of Australia removed professor Stephen Leeder, formerly the journal's editor-in-chief after he criticised the decision to outsource production of the journal to the global publishing giant Elsevier.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Backlash over decision by Australia's top medical journal to outsource to company with history of 'unethical' behaviour )〕 All but one of the AMJ's editorial advisory committee resigned following the decision to sack Leeder, and wrote to Owler asking him to review the decision.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Medical journal editor sacked and editorial committee resigns )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Medical Journal of Australia will be shunned by researchers after editor sacked, academic says )〕 In May 2015 Owler criticised a Federal Government plan to assist Curtin University open a medical school for undergraduates, arguing that medical students struggle to find internships or specialist training places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tony Abbott branded 'Captain Chaos' over medical school plan )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe Hockey fires back at the AMA's Brian Owler )〕 ==See also== *Australian Medical Association *Sydney Medical School 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Owler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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