A/Prof. A. F. MOYNHAM
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name:Anthony Frederick MOYNHAM
Registered to practice medicine in:
Australia:
New South Wales
Tasmania (non financial, non practising)
Great Britain (general registration)
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (1973)
(University of Sydney)
Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence (Clinical) (1985)
(Society of Apothecaries of London)
Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine
Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London
Completion of the Postgraduate course for medical practitioners in Medical Jurisprudence through the University of London at the London Hospital Medical College (1984)
Professional Associations:
Fellowship of the Australian College of Biomedical Scientists.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Member of the Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales.
Member of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
Member of the International Council for Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety.
Appointments
International Editorial Board of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. (Official Journal of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Australian College of Legal Medicine and the British Association in Forensic Medicine)
Positions Held:
Resident Medical Officer - Royal Newcastle Hospital (January, 1973 - March, 1975).
Resident Medical Officer (Paediatrics) - Prince of Wales Hospital (March, 1975 - March, 1976).
General Practice - (March, 1976 - April, 1977)
New Lambton
Revesby
Lakemba
Medical Officer Health Commission of New South Wales (April, 1977 - March, 1981)
Police Medical Officer - Police Medical Branch
New South Wales Police Department (March, 1981 - March, 1987).
Associate Honorary Medical Officer Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Sexual Assault Unit 1985
Assistant Director - Police Medical Branch (March 1987 - September, 1991)
Director, Clinical Forensic Medicine Unit,
New South Wales Police Service (September, 1991 - 2008)
Visiting Medical Officer Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (2005 - )
Adjunct Associate Professor - Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney (2008 - )
Experience:
As a Police Medical Officer a special study into the pharmacology of alcohol has been undertaken:
(i)Evaluating the physiological performance of subjects at varying blood alcohol concentrations.
(ii)Examining the absorption and elimination rates of alcohol in subjects.
(iii)Evaluating breath-analysing instruments including the Breathalyzer 900 and the Dräger Alcotest 7110.
(iv)Examining blood samples under various conditions of storage in relation to their blood alcohol concentrations.
(v)Lecturing to Police on the pharmacology of alcohol.
(vi)Lecturing to those Police undertaking the Breathalyzer 900 Operator's Course and Breath-analysis Operator's Course on human anatomy and physiology as well as the pharmacology of alcohol and drugs.
(vii)Lecturing to health, forensic and allied professionals on forensic medicine and the pharmacology of alcohol and other drugs in relation to traffic and other matters. This is locally, interstate and overseas.
(viii)Preparing scientific papers (when necessary) for publication locally, interstate and overseas.
(ix)Keeping in touch with current literature on forensic medicine and the pharmacology of alcohol and other drugs locally, interstate and overseas.
(x)Preparing medico-legal reports, as required, and attending at Court to give evidence on forensic medicine and the pharmacology of alcohol. (Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrate's Court, Coroner's Court, Royal Commissions).
Lecturing on Forensic Medicine to Police Officers undertaking the detective's training course.
Lecturing to police officers responsible for custodial care.
Lecturing to police officers undertaking the trainee prosecutors course.
Lecturing on anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and motor vehicle accident trauma to Police Officers undertaking the Crash Investigation Squad's training course.
Lecturing on forensic medicine to post-graduate students in the Law Faculty of the Western Sydney University.
Lecturing on forensic medicine to medical staff at public hospitals in New South Wales.
Attending to other duties involving Clinical Forensic Medicine such as the examination and assessment of persons who may be victims, suspects or persons of interest and attending at the courts as a factual and expert witness as a consequence if required.
In this capacity I have examined:
1.Victims of assault including victims of sexual assault.
2.Suspects in relation to assaults including sexual assault.
3.Witnesses in matters related to possible criminal offences.
4.Persons in custody in relation to their capacity to be interviewed or examined medically for forensic purposes.
Over the years in my employment I would have examined some hundreds of persons in this capacity.
Publications List
P. Christopher, D. Fox, A. Moynham. (1981). “Health Screening of Indo-Chinese refugees”. Australian Prescriber 5.1: 5 - 7.
A. Moynham, (1983). “Evaluation of Evidential Breath-Analysis Instruments”. Proc. Autumn School of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, ed. Santamaria, J. pp. 9 - 15.
J. Perl, G. Starmer, K. Bird, R. Beverstock, A. Moynham (May, 1984) “The Evaluation of the Performance of Nine Breath Analysis Instruments”. N.S.W. Police Department Publication.
A. Moynham, Over. 05 and under arrest. Australian Dr, 6 November, 1984: 32 - 33.
A. F. Moynham, R. Beverstock, J. Perl and G. A. Starmer, (1985). “The Effects of Storage on the Accuracy of Blood Alcohol Readings” Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety., eds, S. Kaye and G. M. Meier, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1079 - 1101.
A. F. Moynham, (1986). “The Role of the Operator in Evidential Breath Testing” the Police Surgeon, 30: 92 - 100.
A. Moynham, P. Mailer, J. Perl G. A. Starmer, P. Houlahan, W. Burns and E. Peel, (1987). “Procedures for Alcohol Detection in New South Wales” Pro. Int. Assoc. Foren. Sci. Conf. (Vancouver).
A. Moynham, P. Mailer, J. Perl, G. A. Starmer, P. Houlahan, W. Burns, E. Peel, S. Jennings, B. Luke and J. Koertje, (1987). “Blood-Breath Ratios for Alcohol - Familiar issues revisited” Proc. World Police Surgeons' Conf. (Wichita)
A. F. Moynham, (1988). “Motor Traffic Accidents and Intoxication: The Police Medical Officer as an Expert Witness” The Police Surgeon, 34: 92 - 100.
A. Moynham, (1988). “Police Medical Officers, Motor Vehicle Accidents, The Courts and Expert Evidence” Police Personnel Involved in Breath Testing, Penrith, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 1988: 399 - 406.
Burns W, Grainger K, Marcon P, Burns N, Moynham A, Perl J, Jennings S, Crocker D, Berry I, O'Grady R, Starmer G, McNeill D, Hodda A & Ravi B (1990). “The evaluation of six breath analysis instruments for evidential purposes” Sydney: NSW Police Department, 1990.
A. F. Moynham & J. Perl, (1990). “Convicting the Drinking Driver - Is it Enough?” Proceedings of Conference of Police Personnel Involved in Breath Testing, Perth, October, 1990, West Australian Police Department.
A. Moynham, J. Perl and G. A. Starmer, (1990). “Breath testing for Alcohol” J. Traffic Med. 18: 4, 167 - 173.
A. F. Moynham, (1991). “Nine-micron technology. An Advancement whose time has come” Proceeding of the 11th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, 783 - 788.
J. Perl, A. Moynham, G. Starmer, R. Green. “Alcohol, Drugs Aviation Safety” BASI 8: 3 - 8, June, 1991.
J. Perl, A. Moynham, (1991). “Drugs and Driving Legislation in New South Wales - How effective?” The Police Surgeon, 39: 16 - 18.
A.F. Moynham, J. Perl, S. Anderson, R. Sawyer, (1991). “A Heavy Vehicle Accident - Drugs, Driving and Fatigue” Proceedings of the First Caribbean Forensic Science Conference, Peurto Rico, September, 23-27, 1991.
A. Moynham, (1992). “Alcohol, Drugs and Driving: Procedures for the Detection and Prosecution of Offenders in New South Wales” Proc. Autumn School of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, ed. Godding, Gijsbers, J. pp. 21 - 37.
A. F. Moynham, J. Perl, (1993). “Infra-red Breath-analysis Instruments: The Laboratory and the Real World” eds, Utzelmann, Berghaus and Kroj. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Cologne. Verlag TÜV Rheinland.
A. Moynham, J. Perl, (1993). “N.S.W. Experience with Drugs and Driving and Effectiveness of Legislation” Proceedings of Drugs and Driving Workshop held at Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology June 3, 1993.
J Perl, D J Mascord, A F Moynham, G A Starmer (1995). “Drug Usage by Persons Suspected of Driving Under the Influence of A Drug” Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Adelaide, 13-18 August 1995/ed. C N Kloeden, A J McLean, Adelaide, pp 81-86.
A F Moynham, J Perl, S G Anderson, S R Jennings, G A Starmer (1995). “Evidential Breath Analysis in New South Wales: An Exercise in Pragmatism” Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Adelaide, 13-18 August 1995/ed. C N Kloeden, A J Mclean: Adelaide, pp 129-133.
A F Moynham, J Perl, S G Anderson, S R Jennings, G A Starmer (1995). “New South Wales Road Fatalities and Legislation on Alcohol, Drugs and Driving since 1950” Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Adelaide, 13-18 August 1995/ed. C N Kloeden, A J McLean: Adelaide, pp 498 - 501.
Perl J., Moynham A, Starmer G., “Stimulant Abuse by Drivers, An Occupational Hazard?” Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Annecy, 21 September – 26 September 1997 ed. C. Mercier-Guyon.
Moynham A., Anderson S., Jennings S., Perl J., Starmer G., Birch J., “National Standards, International Standards and Evidential Breath Analysis in Australia” Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Stockholm, May 22 – 26, 2000, ed Frans Schlyter, Hans Laurell
Moynham A. F., Perl J., Anderson S., Jennings S. R., Allender W. J., Starmer G. A., “Driving, Addiction and the Law” Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Montreal, August 4 -9, 2002.
S G Anderson, W Allender, A F Moynham, J Perl, S R Jennings,G A Starmer,K Lewis, C Brocklesby, “The Effects of Storage on the Accuracy of Blood Alcohol Readings”Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Glasgow, 2004.
W. Allender, S. Anderson, S. Jennings, A. Moynham, J. Perl, “The New ‘Ice’ (Crystal Methylamphetamine) Age?” Proceedings of Joint Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists, International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety and featuring 8th Ignition Interlock Symposium. Seattle, Washington, 2007.