ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Angus Norris</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="achr.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="maintitle"> The Board of Directors <br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="122"><div align="left"> <img src="images/angus_norris.jpg" width="100" height="87"></div> </td> <td width="872" align="left" valign="bottom" class="dtext2"> Angus Norris <br /> General Manager <br /> Health & Benefits Management, MBF Australia Ltd </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="dtext"><p><br /> Mr Angus Norris joined MBF Australia Ltd as General Manager, Health and Benefits Management on 7 December 2004. <br /> <br /> He has over 25 years experience in private health care, holding senior positions in private hospitals both in Australia and overseas as well as within the private health insurance industry. Mr Norris has been a leader in establishing productive relationships between health funds and private hospitals, and ancillary providers. <br /> <br /> Whilst working in health funds over the past 15 years Mr Norris has been an active member on a number of industry committees  PHICs, Ministerial Prosthesis and Devices Committee, Commonwealth Working Party for Rural Hospital Development. <br /> <br /> Mr Norris is Chairman of Health Eyewear Pty Ltd, an optical chain joint venture. <br /> <br /> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="40" valign="top" class="dtext3">Q.</td> <td width="954" class="dtext3"> Could you quantify what it would mean to Australia if we could eliminate some of these diseases? </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="dtext3"><br /> A.</td> <td class="dtext3"><br /> A good example is Alzheimer s. If this affliction were overcome by say 2042, it would save the nation at that time more than $20 billion per annum in health and business costs. Access Economics calculates that a 20% reduction in cancer would yield the nation an economic benefit of $184 billion; a reduction of just 15% in cardiovascular problems would save $34 billion. In the words of Mary Lasker who established a notable charitable trust in the US:  if you think research is expensive, try disease. </td> </tr> </table> <br /> </body> </html>