Board & Committees

Professor Peter Ebeling is an endocrinologist, researcher and Head of the Monash University Department of Medicine at Monash Health. He is the former long-standing Honorary Medical Director of Healthy Bones Australia (formerly Osteoporosis Australia), current board member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society and Past President of the Endocrine Society of Australia. Peter is passionate about improving bone health in Australia. He has devoted decades of service to osteoporosis awareness and research. In 2015 Peter was made an Officer of the General Division of the Order of Australia for distinguished services to the field of bone health.

Melinda Sukhla is Head of the Premier’s Implementation Unit at the NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet. She is responsible for delivery of the NSW Premier’s Priorities, working in partnership with Government agencies and other stakeholders. Prior to joining the NSW Government, Melinda was an executive at Qantas and St Vincent’s Health Network, and worked for a decade with The Boston Consulting Group. Melinda joined the board of Healthy Bones Australia in 2019 and strongly supports the consumer focus of the organisation. She also sits on the board of the End Street Sleeping Collaboration.

Martin McGrath has been a partner at KPMG for over 25 years and is an experienced financial services auditor. While working with KPMG Martin has been based in Sydney, Brisbane, London and Kuala Lumpur and has extensive experience working with national and international clients. He is a lead partner for KPMG on ASX Top 100 companies with a focus on the banking and wealth management sectors. For ten years Martin was the Partner in Charge of KPMG Australia’s Department of Professional Practice, placing him at the forefront of technical accounting, auditing, risk and regulatory developments. Martin is a former President and Council member of the University of Sydney’s Accounting Foundation.

Professor Wong is Head of Rheumatology, Western Sydney Local Health District, Clinical Professor in the Sydney Medical School and MD Research co-Coordinator at the Westmead Clinical School. He is Medical Director and Chair, Healthy Bones Australia Medical & Scientific Advisory Committee. Prof Wong spent 11 years in clinical practice in the regional city of Coffs Harbour, NSW, where he helped establish the first Fracture Prevention Clinic and the first Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Service in regional Australia. Due to the shortage of rheumatologists in regional Australia, he continues to visit Coffs Harbour regularly. Peter completed a PhD at Melbourne University in 2006 looking at the molecular biology of inflammatory arthritis and bone disease and holds a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Newcastle University with particular expertise in assessment of osteoporosis refracture prevention models of care and bone health in men commencing androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. He is passionate about bone health and improving osteoporosis management in Australia.

Professor Mark Cooper is Head of Medicine at Concord Clinical School, University of Sydney, and is head of the Adrenal Steroid Lab at the ANZAC Research Institute. Mark is President-Elect of Australian & New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society and a previous Deputy Chair of the Healthy Bones Australia Medical & Scientific Advisory Committee. Until 2012 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. and metabolic bone physician at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. His clinical and research interests include metabolic bone disease and adrenal steroid physiology. He was previously the Bertram Abraham’s Lecturer in Physiology at the Royal College of Physicians of London (2011). He collaborates extensively with other research groups and has served on committees for the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research. He combines clinical practice with translational research.