Circumcision Academy of Australia

The Circumcision Academy of Australia (former name: Circumcision Foundation of Australia) is an alleged medical organisation which "aims to promote reliable medical research information on circumcision as a public health issue and facilitate education on good clinical practice. In addition it supports parental and individual choice in obtaining medical or religious circumcision in the Australian community. It is not aligned with any medical body nor with any particular religious faith". They state to be aligned with the Circumcision Academy of America which confirms that they don't see themselves as a medical body.

The Circumcision Academy of Australia has been a near total failure at its apparent goal of advancing the practice of male circumcision in Australia, because the incidence of circumcision is reported to be near its all time low of about four percent.

Self-understanding

In their "List of Possible Circumcisers", they describe themselves as

“

Provides the latest, scientifically accurate information on benefits and risks of circumcision, as well as lists of doctors who perform infant, child and adult circumcisions. The Academy is a medical body only and does not provide medical procedures. – Brian J. Morris (assumed) (List of Possible Circumcisers - Circumcision Foundation of Australia 2020-03-02)

Circumfetish

In fact, they also openly advertise at the same time to be "the only Australian medical organisation devoted to male circumcision". All their statements and even their "meta-studies" state that they are rather "the only Australian medical organization obsessed with male circumcision". The website references the circumcision fetish site circinfo.net and quotes many papers by Brian J. Morris which (of course) reference papers of himself over and over again, too. It is obvious that his circular conclusions are driven by his obsession for circumcision and require little further attention.

The Circumcision Academy of Australia seems to have been a failure in promoting circumcision in Australia, as the incidence of non-therapeutic infant circumcision has declined rapidly to only four percent of newborn boys.

They transparently and proudly list their "board" and members, many of whom are either themselves identified as circumfetishists or have a clear financial interest in circumcision, particularly as physicians specialized in circumcision. Morris repeatedly recruits alleged co-authors for his pseudo-scientific elaborations from this very dubious "pool of experts".

Perpetuating myths

What is shocking is that this organization still claims that neonatal circumcision does not require general anaesthesia, instead of correctly stating that neonatal circumcision is neither medically indicated nor can it be performed under general anaesthesia without endangering the life of the child. Thus, the CAA perpetuates the myth that newborns do not feel pain.

Board and members

IntactiWiki lists all known members of this Brian Morris "enterprise" because chances are that many of them are only paper tigers or non-specialist supporters and pure circumcision fetishists like Morris himself. As the Intactivists of Australia and New Zealand already found out in 2012, the website is or at least was hosted on web servers of the University of Sydney, his former employer, while he was asked by them to remove his stuff from their servers in 2011 already. It seems to be obvious that Morris still is the motor and head of the CAA, too, and just hides from the frontline by declaring to be only their "Secretary". Effectively, he seems to maintain the website, gives his contact address, and designs all "studies" which he writes himself and collects "co-authors" for from his organization.

They have published a List of Possible Circumcisers which promotes most of their members as circumcisers "for medical and cultural reasons". The document is stored in the IntactiWiki pool at File:List of Possible Circumcisers - Circumcision Foundation of Australia.pdf.

Board

Name	Function	Profession	Interest in circumcision	Remark
Phillip M. Katelaris	(current alleged) President	urologist	income through circumcisions assumed
Brian J. Morris	Secretary	retired professor of molecular medical sciences	circumfetish proven	seems to be the motor of it all
Norman J. Blumenthal	Treasurer	obstetrician and gynaecologist	income through circumcisions	only babies up to 4 weeks
Mohamed Hajoona	Surgical Training Co-ordinator	general practitioner	income through circumcisions
Alex D. Wodak	Public Health Advisor	physician	income through circumcisions, circumfetish proven

Other current members

Name	Profession	Interest in circumcision	Remark
Ono Alex-Ohunyon	physician	income through circumcisions and frenulectomies
Mojtaba Athari	cosmetic physician	income through circumcisions	his practices are entitled "Melbourne Vasectomy & Circumcision"
Luke Bookallil	general practitioner	income through circumcisions
Gordon R. Campbell	general practitioner	income through circumcisions assumed	complex medical patients and chronic disease management
Stephen Paul Cowie	male general practitioner	income through circumcisions assumed
Guy Cox	botanist	circumfetish proven	former University colleague of Brian J. Morris
Karen A. Duggan	nephrologist (renal specialist)	income through circumcisions assumed
Roger Fabian	male GP	income through circumcisions	probably supports "cultural" circumcisions
John F.W. Garvey	general and diagnostic surgeon	income through circumcisions
Parshotam Gera	neonatal and paediatric surgeon	income through circumcisions	openly promotes cultural circumcisions
David Golovsky	urological surgeon	income through circumcisions assumed
Athos Katelaris	urologist	income through circumcisions assumed
Tamer Kahil	surgeon	income through circumcisions	all ages (!)
Mahomed Khatree	obstetrician & gynaecologist	income through circumcisions	has done over 5,000 circumcisions on baby boys
David A. Kirkman	general practitioner	income through circumcisions	over 35 years performing circumcisions (neo-natal incl.)
Sean E. Kennedy	senior lecturer in paediatric nephrology	circumfetish assumed	former University colleague of and co-author for Brian J. Morris
Stephen R. Leeder	emeritus professor of public health and community medicine	circumfetish assumed	former University colleague of and co-author for Brian J. Morris
Andrew Li	surgeon	income through circumcisions	all males as of 5 years of age
Peter Lim	general practitioner	income through circumcisions
Michael Lowy	"sexual health physician"	circumfetish assumed	board member of ‘Impotence Australia’
Eugenie R. Lumbers	emeritus professor of physiology	circumfetish assumed	former University colleague of and co-author for Brian J. Morris
Adrian Mindel	Professor of Sexual Health Medicine	circumfetish assumed	former University colleague of Brian J. Morris
Colin Moore	surgeon	income through circumcisions	all males as of 6 months of age
Stephen Morris	NN	circumfetish assumed	the most obscure person on that list for now
Mohammad Jacques	retired intensive care nurse	circumfetish assumed	already retired in 2014 at the latest
Adeolu O. Obatayo	physician	income through circumcisions
Dinesh Patel	physician	income through circumcisions	babies only between 3 and 7 weeks; other males as of 16 years
Khalid Aziz Qidwai	surgeon	income through circumcisions assumed
Samuel Raftery	anaesthetist	circumfetish assumed
Michael Read	physician	income through circumcisions
David Robinson	ophthalmic surgeon	income through circumcisions
Terry Russell	physician	income through circumcisions	specialized in circumcision for boys since 1993; immediate past President 2010–2017; has performed more circumcisions than anyone else in Australia.
Ashraf Saddik	physician	income through circumcisions
Milton Sales	physician	income through circumcisions	only babies between 3 and 7 weeks
Leslie Schrieber	Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health	circumfetish assumed	former University colleague of and co-author for Brian J. Morris
Mohammad Salahuddin Sharier	physician	income through circumcisions
Shyam Sharma	physician	income through circumcisions
Wasfy Shahin	general practitioner	income through circumcisions
Adrian C. Sheen	physician	income through circumcisions
E. Jeff Tarr	physician	income through circumcisions
Rahul S. Tipnis	male practitioner	income through circumcisions	performs circumcision for all age groups
David Phillip Walkom	gynaecologist	income through circumcisions
Roger Waterfield	physician	income through circumcisions
David Webb	physician	income through circumcisions
Peter Wein	gynaecologist	income through circumcisions	names himself "circumcision specialist doctor"
Jennifer M. Wheatley	paediatric surgeon	income through circumcisions
Frederick Ross Wilson	physician	income through circumcisions
Amanda B. Young	general surgeon	income through circumcisions	openly promotes religious circumcisions

Previous members (or no longer mentioned officially)

The following persons were formerly listed as members and had been checked by the Intactivists of Australia and New Zealand:

Name	profession	Interest in circumcision	Remark
Anthony Dilley	physician	income through circumcisions	performs up to 40 circumcisions a week
Robin J. Willcourt	gynecologist and obstetrician	income through circumcisions	found guilty of disorderly conduct

See also

• Australia
• Circumcision Academy of America
• Journal of Men's Health

External links

• (23 August 2012). Intactivists of Australia: Meet the Circumcision Foundation of Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2022.