Dr Nick Vrodos

NRF President
NRF President | NRF Investment Committee Member | NRF Board Member since 1999 | Head of Neurosurgery, Flinders Medical Centre | Consultant Neurosurgeon, Memorial Medical Centre | Consultant Neurosurgeon, Flinders Private Hospital
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Assoc Prof Santosh Poonnoose

NRF Vice President, NRF Chair, Scientific Committee
NRF Vice President | NRF Chair, Scientific Committee | NRF Board Member since 2020 | Director of South Australian Neurological Tumour Bank | Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders Private Hospital and Calvary Adelaide Hospital | Senior Lecturer of Neurosurgery, Flinders University
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Mr Tim Neill

NRF Hon. Treasurer
NRF Investment Committee Member | NRF Board Member since 2019 | Member Executive Committee | Principal - T C Neill, Chartered Accountant
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Ms Ginta Orchard FFIA

NRF Secretary & Executive Officer
NRF Board Member since 2002 | Member Executive Committee | 30 years Event Management and 20 years Not-For-Profit Management | FIA Fellow
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Ms Melanie Cooper AM

NRF Investment Committee Member
NRF Investment Committee Member | NRF Board Member since 2008 | Director of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Coopers Brewery Ltd | Company Secretary, Coopers Brewery Ltd | Chair, Coopers Brewery Foundation |
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Ms Nadia Kingham

NRF Board Member since 2013 | Daughter of NRF founder, Dr Trevor Dinning | Retired Veterinarian
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Mr Stephen White

NRF Board Member since 2015 | Partner, O’Loughlins Lawyers’ Litigation Group | Principal Areas of Practice: Criminal Law, Commercial and Civil Litigation, Professional Indemnity Insurance Claims, Personal Insurance Claims, Public Liability Claims and Industrial Law
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Mr Andrew Goodhand

NRF Board Member
NRF Chair Investment Committee | NRF Board Member since 2020 | Business Owner/Financial Planner – Calm Wealth Management | Certified Financial Planner and Master of Financial Planning | Member Financial Planning Association
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Dr Xenia Doorenbosch

NRF Board Member 2021
NRF Board Member since 2021 | Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Women’s and Children’s Hospital | Neurosurgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital | Neurosurgeon, Memorial Medical Centre
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Dr Simon Sandler

NRF Board Member since 2022 | Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon | Royal Adelaide Hospital - Director (Head of Unit) of Neurosurgery | St Andrew's Hospital | Memorial Hospital
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Professor Stuart Pitson

Advisory Member - NRF Chair of Brain Tumour Research
Advisory Member since 2020 | NRF Chair of Brain Tumour Research | Research Professor, The University of South Australia | NHMRC Senior Research Fellow | Head, Molecular Signalling Laboratory, Centre for Cancer Biology
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Associate Professor Renée Turner

Advisory Member - NRF Director of Neurosurgical Research
NRF Board Member since 2015 | NRF Director of Neurosurgical Research | Member, NRF Scientific Committee | Senior Lecturer, The University of Adelaide | Deputy Head, Discipline of Anatomy and Pathology | Head, Translational Neuropathology Laboratory
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Dr Adam Wells

Advisory Member - NRF Abbie Simpson Clincal Fellow
Abbie Simpson Clinical Fellow | Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Adelaide Hospital | NRF Chair of Neurosurgical Research 2015 Student
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Frances Corrigan

Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee
Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee | Head of Traumatic Brain Injury Research | Senior Lecturer, Translational Neuropathology Laboratory, University of Adelaide, Concussion Research and Neurodegeneration Research
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Professor Peter Reilly AO

Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee
Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee | Emeritus Professor, Royal Adelaide Hospital | Professor, University of Adelaide.
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Professor Corinna Van Den Heuvel

Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee
Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee | Professor, Adelaide Medical School / Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Dr Glenn McCulloch

Advisory Member, NRF Scientific Committee
NRF Board Member since 2010 | NRF President 2020-23
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