Clifford F Hughes
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Professor Hughes is a Member of the Australian Council on Safety and Quality in Health Care and was formerly Chairman of the Therapeutic Device Evaluation Committee for the federal government. He regularly consults with the device industry and is medical director of the Australia and New Zealand Heart Valve Registry, an independent but industry-sponsored device-tracking program.