Mariska van Essen
Mariska is the FASA Vice-President and lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband and two children. Their eldest son has Fanconi Anaemia. Mariska is an experienced Registered Nurse and brings a range of leadership skills around communication, relationship building, and professional growth. Mariska prioritises the advancement of quality standards of practice, and great, individualised […]
Eli Chan
My name is Eli and I am from Sydney Australia who works for the NSW Government in Community Engagement and Risk Reduction. My son Noah, was diagnosed with Fanconi Anaemia in 2022 (when he was just a year old). Since his diagnoses Noah, my wife and I have met some amazing people along our journey […]
Harvey Jones
Harvey is a Chartered Accountant and has more that thirty years experience, qualifying in the UK before moving to Australia in 1999. Harvey has held senior finance roles in industry and is currently the CFO of an advanced manufacturing business. Harvey has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. Outside of work Harvey […]
Leave Jimmy a message!
Identification of the genetic causes of Fanconi anaemia
We are studying the genetic causes of Fanconi anaemia and similar conditions. Knowing which gene variant(s) is causing FA in an individual, or runs in a family, is useful because: To participate or for more information, contact research@fasa.org.au
Amelia Hawkshaw
My name is Amelia and I live in Sydney, Australia. I was diagnosed with FA in 2016 when I was 23. It was identified after I had chemotherapy for bowel cancer, and my body reacted pretty negatively to it! I haven’t been transplanted. I have a team of doctors at Chris O’Brien LifeHouse in Sydney […]
Dr. Wayne Crismani
Wayne is a researcher at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research (SVI) in Melbourne. His team is focused on understanding Fanconi anaemia and he is passionate about making a difference to people affected by FA through fundamental research and through FASA. Wayne, Hannah Fluhler and a large team of experts have a research study open, […]
Alan Howard-Jones
Alan is FASA’s current President and Treasurer and lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Alan has been connected to the Fanconi Anaemia community since 1998 when he married his late wife Charisse, an FA adult (now deceased). Alan has over 25 year’s working experience in the private sector, covering business management and administration, customer engagement and […]
Chris Hawkshaw
Chris is the FASA Secretary, and together with his wife Barbara were the founding members of FASA with Barbara the inaugural President. Chris and Barbara had not heard of Fanconi Anaemia until their daughter Amelia was diagnosed at age 23, following surgery for bowel cancer and a catastrophic brush with chemotherapy in 2016.Their learning curve […]
Clinical study: Preventative screening of oral lesions in Fanconi Anaemia patients in Australia
The diagnostic accuracy and safety have been demonstrated of a non-invasive brush biopsy of visible oral lesions analysed with cytology analysis in the FA population. This was a large prospective study carried out in Germany by Heinrich Heine University together with the German support group (Fanconi Hilfe). Based on these findings that oral cancer can […]
