ANZACA - Life members

Life members should have made a significant contribution to ANZACA or the objectives of the Association. Nominations for life membership may be submitted on an ad hoc basis to the Secretary and will be voted on by Council and ratified at an Annual General Meeting.

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Associate Professor Norm Eizenberg (Life membership awarded 2024)

MBBS, HonFRACS

Norm is Associate Professor, Melbourne Clinical School, University of Notre Dame and Honorary Principal Fellow, Anatomy and Physiology, University of Melbourne. He is Anatomy Specialty Editor, ANZ Journal of Surgery and is also a general medical practitioner. Norm has coordinated anatomy teaching programs (primarily to medical students and surgical trainees) for more than 45 years. He was an Anatomy Examiner, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is currently Chair of Anatomy Examiners, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.

Norm’s major areas of research and scholarship are in medical education and anatomical variations. His greatest responsibility (and subsequent achievement) was project leader of Anatomedia Online. Norm has received a ‘Meritorious Service Award’ from the Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons in addition to an ‘Outstanding Service Award’ and Honorary Fellowship degree from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In 2000, he was awarded a Universitas 21 Teaching Fellowship (for “educational innovation”) and in 2014, was a Victorian Australian of the Year finalist (for “outstanding contribution: anatomist, doctor and educationalist”). Norm was awarded Life Membership of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists in 2024.

Dr Christopher A. Briggs (Life membership awarded 2018)
Dip Ed (Exeter) BSc, MS, PhD (Oregon)

Background

After completing his PhD, Chris taught briefly at the University of Oregon and in 1975 was appointed to a lecturing position at the University of Melbourne; being promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He was initially a member of staff of the Department of Human Movement Studies, transferred to the Department of Anatomy in 1981 and retired from the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience in 2017.

Major areas of research and scholarship

Chris’ key interest is in musculoskeletal structure and function and he is one of four principal authors in the development of Anatomedia, a modular multimedia-based project for teaching and learning anatomy. During his University career Chris supervised several PhD and MSc candidates as well as Honours and Masters Preliminary students. Chris held a sessional appointment in forensic anthropology at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and was Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University. His publications extend across multiple fields, including medical education, anatomy and forensic anthropology/pathology. He was involved in teaching anatomy to a broad range of undergraduate students in Science, Biomedicine, Dentistry and Physiotherapy, and also taught in the Medical program. From 2011-2017 Chris coordinated the Graduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy at Melbourne.

He was guest lecturer at La Trobe University, RMIT University, the University of Otago and James Cook University as well as external examiner at several institutions both in Australia and overseas. Chris was Vice President of ANZACA from 2008-10 and President from 2010-12 inclusive, and presented at many of the annual conferences.

Current positions

Professor of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Deakin University (part time)

Honorary Fellow & Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University of Melbourne

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University

Visiting Associate Professor, College of Medicine & Dentistry, James Cook University

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Prof Helen Nicholson (Life membership awarded 2018)

BSc Hons, MB ChB, MD (Bristol), LLD honoris causa (Otago)

Background

Helen graduated with an MBChB and BSc Hons from the University of Bristol and practiced medicine for several years before returning to undertake doctoral studies and pursuing an academic career in the Department of Anatomy at Bristol. She moved to New Zealand in 2000 to take up a Chair in Anatomy and later served in various roles including Dean of the Otago School of Medical Sciences, Deputy Vice-Chancellor External Engagement, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Acting Vice-Chancellor (February 2023-July 2024).

Major areas of research and scholarship

Helen has research interests in the areas of clinical anatomy and medical education and these have led to numerous publications as well as production of the television documentaries “Donated to Science” and “Practising Medicine”.

Helen was involved in the formation of ANZACA and was elected the inaugural president in October 2004.

In 2009, Helen was elected to the Executive of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA) and was elected President of the IFAA in 2024.

Current positions

Professor Emerita of Anatomy at the University of Otago.

President of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists.