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Ethics Committee
A strong and responsible cycling program needs the implementation of a strong ethics program. ARC has developed and instituted an Ethics Committee to support its professional cycling team and its cycling foundation programs.
The ARC Ethics Committee is chaired by a former Victorian Supreme Court Judge with leading sport ethicists, lawyers and sports medicine specialists. The ARC Ethics Committee will be independent of the ARC cycling program ensuring that it is not in a position of conflict.
The Ethics Committee will not be clouded by the commercial interests of the ARC professional cycling program. The charter of the ARC Ethics Committee is to:
- adopt a Code of Ethics in parallel to the UCI Code of Conduct;
- investigate breaches of the Code of Conduct and Anti-Doping Policy, and
- review the policies and procedures of ARC.
Code of Conduct
Australian Road Cycling will operate under the auspices of a rigorous Code of Conduct. Taking the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) code of conduct as a baseline, the Ethics Committee will develop stringent procedures and criteria to ensure ethical racing from its team.
The UCI code of conduct is available at www.uci.ch/imgArchive/Publications/CodedeconduiteENG.pdf
Ethics Committee - Member Profiles
The Honourable Justice E William Gillard QC
Bill Gillard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1997 until his retirement on 31 July 2007.
Justice Gillard brings a wealth of experience to ARC’s Ethics Committee by reason of his active involvement in anti-doping and professional ethical matters with the Australian Football League and Cricket Australia.
Within ARC, Justice Gillard will be overseeing the ARC’s Code of Conduct and will be responsible for investigating suspected breaches as well as imposing sanctions on athletes.
Dr Andrew Garnham
Dr. Garnham is involved in a wide range of sports medicine related activities in the community and other academic institutions. Dr Garnham works in private clinical practice as a Sports Physician for the Australian Ballet, Melbourne Tigers Basketball and has been involved with many major sporting events, including Olympic and Commonwealth Games. He also sits on the AFL Tribunal as the AFL’s anti-doping expert.
Dr Garnham also:
- works with the Victorian Institute of Sport’s cycling program;
- is the race doctor for the Herald Sun Tour; and
- was the doctor in charge of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Dr Enrico Cementon
Dr Enrico Cementonis a consultant psychiatrist in clinical practice. His areas of clinical expertise include
Addictions and substance abuse:
- Mental health and illness
- Recovery from substance dependence and mental illness
- Sports psychiatry
- Drugs in sport
Dr Cementon is a committee member of the Section of Addiction Psychiatry in the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Cementon’s contribution to the Ethics Committee will include the development of strategies to address the issues of prevention of and recovery from various substance-related and other mental health problems within the team.
Andrew Alexandra
Andrew is the Head of the University of Melbourne Division of the Australian Research Council Special Research Centre in Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne, Senior Research Fellow of the ARC Special Research Centre in Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, and Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Social Philosophy at Charles Sturt University.
He has published extensively in the area of ethics and professional responsibility and accountability, intellectual property, and ethics in institutions. He is the co-author of Ethical Theory and Professional Practice, Police Ethics, and Reason, Values and Institutions. Other publications include ‘Common Morality and ‘Institutionalising’ Ethics’, ‘Accountability and Ministerial Advisors’, ‘Professional Ethics for Politicians’, “Professional Roles and Professional Privileges”, “A Code of Ethics for Australian Nurses”,, and the commissioned report Professionalisation, Ethics and Integrity Systems: The Promotion of Professional Ethical Standards, and the Protection of Clients and Consumers(with Tom Campbell, Dean Cocking, Seumas Miller and Kevin White).
Dr Simon Locke FACSP, FFSE M (UK), FRACGP
Simon is a Sports Physician at the Greenslopes Private Hospital (teaching hospital, University of Queensland). He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Queensland Academy of Sport, and a Medical Consultant at the Queensland Academy of Sport.
Simon has held senior administrative positions at the Australian Sports Medicine Federation, being a Board Member (Qld) of the World Congress Committee (Qld) (1985-1989), a Representative to RACGP Medical Education Committee (1986-1989), and Chairman and Postgraduate Course Convenor (1987-1990). Simon was also on the National Council of the Australian College of Sports Physicians (1990-1995), where he has also been Vice President (Policy) of the National Executive (2000-2003), and an Examiner since 2000.
Simon has extensive experience in sports medicine as the Queensland Medical Coordinator for the Australian Institute of Sport (1990-2002), and the Medical Co-ordinator at the Queensland Institute of Sport (1991-2004). He has also gained considerable experience in the Olympic Athlete Program as a member of the National Medical Committee (1996-2000), and the Australian Sports Commission’s National Committee for the Screening of Athletes (1995-2000).
Dr Hari S Bains
MBChB, FRACGP, MSportsMed, CIME
Hari is a doctor experienced in the medical management of athletes from elite to recreational level, with a special interest in the treatment of tendon disorders and the ethical improvement of sporting performance.
He has a Masters Degree in Sports Medicine from the University of New South Wales, is a Member of Sports Medicine Australia, and has been conferred Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Hari holds an Assistant Professorship at Bond University on the Gold Coast, is a Certified Independent Medical Examiner (American Board of Independent Medical Examiners), is a Member of the Board of Honorary Consultants for the journal ‘Medicine Today’, and a Member of the Peer Review Panel for the journal ‘Australian Family Physician’.
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