The role of the Board is to ensure the Association is run ethically and efficiently.  Meetings are held every 2 months.

BIA NSW’s constitution states that the Board be comprised of between 6 and 9 members who each hold office for three years. At each year’s AGM, at least three members stand down, and a nomination and election process is held to fill the vacant positions.  This ensures a mixture of newer and more experienced Board members at any one time.

At the 2009 AGM on Thursday 3 December, the following three Board positions were declared vacant.  

 One (1) position: Secretary of the Board 
 Two (2) positions: Ordinary member of the Board

The term is for three years, from the 2009 AGM until the 2012 AGM. 

Seven nominations were received for the two Ordinary positions, and an election was held. At the AGM, new Ordinary Board members Associate Professor Ian Baguley and Ms Sylvia Miles were welcomed to the Board.

The current BIA NSW board has a range of expertise and broad-ranging experience.  Here is a short bio about each member. 

Office Bearers

PRESIDENT: Mr Ian Lovegreen  OAM

I am a freelance photographer, husband (my wife Vicki has an ABI), father of four and have three grandchildren.   More... 

VICE PRESIDENT: Mr Paul Raciborski

Christmas, 2003 and the family were on holiday near Mt. Cook, New Zealand. I was walking in the mountains with two of my sons when a large rock fell on my chest and as a result I fell around twenty metres. More...

TREASURER: Ms Kerry Stafford

Kerry Stafford has been in an Executive role on the BIA NSW Board since 2002. More...

SECRETARY:   Position Vacant

Ordinary Members

Associate Professor Ian Baguley 

Ian Baguley is an internationally regarded Rehabilitation Physician sub-specialising in traumatic brain injury management and research. More...

Mr Timothy Concannon

Tim Concannon is a solicitor and partner of the long-established Sydney CBD  firm, Carroll and O'Dea Lawyers. More...

Ms Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles, a BIA NSW member for 27 years, sustained a brain injury following a motor vehicle accident in 1982.  More...

Dr Allison Rowlands

Allison has worked in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation (TLU and outpatient services) in the Hunter region for many years   More...

Dr Yvonne Zurynski

Yvonne Zurynski is Assistant Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit and Senior Lecturer (Research Only) in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney.  More...