Dr Kathryn Antioch Consultant Tellimed

Kathryn is management consultant and principal of Health Economics and Funding Reforms, a consultant at Tellimed and member of the National Health Committee for the National Health and Medical Research Council. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the International Health Economists Association.  Kathryn works as a consultant for Federal and State governments, World Bank and the Victorian hospital networks as well as being the Principal Adviser to the CEO of Bayside Health prior to 2005. Her experience also extends to international health systems, having been appointed to a Canadian Royal Commission in 1990.

Dr Suhan Baskar Director Hospital at Home Project Sydney Adventist Hospital

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Assoc Prof Malcolm Battersby Director Flinders Human Behaviour and Human Research Unit

Malcolm was awarded the Harkness Fellowship in 2002 by the Commonwealth Fund in New York and spent 12 months researching chronic condition self-management at the MacColl Institute with Dr Ed Wagner, creator of the Chronic Care Model. As a consultant to SA HealthPlus, he had a major role in the design and implementation of the Flinders Model of coordinated care, which is used throughout Australia today.

Dr Christine Bennett Chief Medical Officer MBF
Dr Christine Bennett is CMO of MBF and a non-executive director Symbion Health Ltd. She has been CEO of Westmead - Australia’s largest teaching hospital, CEO of Research Australia, a formal Partner of KPMG and held senior management positions in NSW Health.

Prof Steve Bolsin Consultant Tellimed

Steve is the Director of Perioperative Medicine, Anaesthesia and Pain Management at the Geelong Hospital, Barwon Health in Victoria. He has been working in Australia for over 10 years. Previously Steve worked as a consultant anaesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in the UK and was responsible for identifying and changing the paediatric cardiac surgery service that was associated with a very high mortality in that hospital. Steve has been actively involved in the development of incident monitoring technology within hospitals and has published extensively on patient safety and quality assurance.

Ms Kate Carnell AO Chief Executive Officer Australian General Practice Network
Kate Carnell is CEO of the Australian General Practice Network, which represents 126 Divisions of General Practice and 95% of GPs. Kate has been National VP of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, leader of the ACT Liberal Party and Chief Minister of the Liberal Party. In 2006 Kate was awarded the Order of Australia for her contributions to the medical sector.

Ms Mary Foley Chief Executive Officer St Vincents and Mater Health
As CEO of St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney, Mary oversees the running of St Vincent's Public and Private Hospitals and the Mater Hospital in North Sydney. She has been Deputy Head of NSW Department of Health and was awarded Telstra Business Woman of the Year for NSW in 1998 for her achievements at Mayne Nickless.

Ms Christine Gee President Australian Private Hospitals Association
Christine is President of the Australian Private Hospitals Association, Treasurer of the Private Hospitals Association of Queensland and has been the CEO of Brisbane’s Toowong Private Hospital since 1997. In January 2006 Christine was appointed as a Commissioner with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Professor Michael Georgeff Chief Executive Officer Precedence Health Care

Professor Michael Georgeff is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Precedence Health and Director of the e-Health Research Unit at Monash University.  He is a consultant to government and industry in the US, Europe and Australia on information technology strategy in health care and e-business and serves on the boards of various companies.  Professor Georgeff is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.  In 1990, the Bulletin proclaimed Professor Georgeff one of Australia’s “national assets”, the only technologist among the fifty-five persons so recognized.  Professor Georgeff is currently leading a number of initiatives in Australia to establish a broadband health network focused on the management of chronic disease.

Dr Stan Goldstein Medical Advisor MBF

Stan graduated in Medicine from Sydney University 1979 and achieved a Masters of Health Administration UNSW 1990. He has 15 years public hospital administration including positions as Director of Medical Services at Prince of Wales, Royal Hospital for Women and Westmead Hospitals. He has also held positions as Senior Medical Officer in Planning at NSW Health and in the Office of NSW Minister for Health (1990-1). Stan was appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Prostheses and Medical Devices since 2004 and is Special Advisor on all 8 Clinical Advisory Groups. In 1999 he was appointed Medical Director of HCF, with responsibilities for health technology assessment and quality indicator measurement and has been Medical Advisor at MBF since 2004, evaluating, among other things Broader Health Cover and Disease Management opportunities.

Ms Helen Hopkins Executive Director Consumer's Health Forum of Australia

Helen Hopkins is the Executive Director of the Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia (CHF), the national voice for health consumers. Since her appointment as Executive Director in 2002, Helen has consulted extensively with member organisations and health consumers to focus CHF activity into three priority areas of importance to health consumers: safety and quality in health care, safe and appropriate use of medicines and health care for people with chronic conditions.

Dr Tony Joseph Director of Emergency Services Royal North Shore Public Hospital

Dr Joseph is the Director of Trauma (Emergency) at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, an Emergency Physician and Senior Clinical Lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney. He is the current chair of the NSW Faculty of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine as well an examiner and a member of Council of ACEM. His research interests include use of ultrasound in the Emergency Department, venous thrombo-embolic disease and the development of trauma systems.

Associate Professor Ines Krass Pharmacy Dept Head Faculty of Pharmacy
Ines Krass is an Associate Professor and Discipline Head of the Pharmacy Practice Group in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney. Over recent years she has been intensively involved in research on the development and implementation of disease state management models (DSM) in community pharmacy for type 2 diabetes, asthma and cardiovascular disease.

Dr John Lang Managing Director Good Health Solutions

John has been at the forefront of corporate health management in Australia for over twenty years. During this time he’s managed HBA, National Mutual and Mayne Health and has been instrumental in the development and delivery of many of the largest, most innovative and successful programs in the country. As Managing Director of Good Health Solutions, John is working with his colleagues to revolutionise the field of corporate health promotion.

Prof Steven Leeder Director Australian Health Policy Institute

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Mr Bruce Levy Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Managing Director Medibank Private
Bruce Levy is COO and Deputy MD of Medibank Private Ltd, with operational responsibility overseeing all aspects of this $3b national corporation. With a legal and economics background, Bruce has worked as a senior manager in the broader health sector for the past 20 years, including three years as GM of The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

Mr Al Lewis Executive Director Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International
Alfred Lewis is founder and President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, the leading measurement specialist in the field of disease management. In 1999 he founded the Disease Management Association of America and has been voted #1 in Managed Healthcare Executive’s overall list of the 25 Most Influential People in disease management.

Mr Roger McComiskie Lead Partner, Health Practice Leader PricewaterhouseCoopers
Roger joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1977 and has been a Partner of the firm for 19 years.  He leads the firm’s National Health practice and specialises in providing advisory services to the health and welfare sector, particularly in the areas of financial and operational performance improvement.

Prof Katherine McGrath Deputy Director General NSW Health Dept
As Deputy Director-General of NSW Health, an organisation with a $10bn annual budget responsible for 95,000 health professionals, Katherine heads the Health System Performance Division. She has worked as a clinician, academic and divisional chair in the Victorian and NSW health systems, as well as CEO of the Hunter Area Health Service.

Assoc Prof Gawaine Powell Davies Chief Executive Officer and Director UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
Gawaine Powell Davies has been involved in research supporting the development of chronic disease management and primary health care since 1996, working closely with Commonwealth and state governments, Divisions of general practice and community health services. This is a major focus of the work of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of NSW where he is currently CEO.

Dr Ian Reinecke Chief Executive Officer National eHealth Transition Authority

Dr Ian Reinecke has been CEO of NEHTA since 2004, overseeing a budget of $160M from all Australian governments to develop specifications and infrastructure for e-health. He was CIO of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, is the Founding Director of the Centre for Information Technology Research at the University of Wollongong and has consulted widely to the private and public sectors on the strategic use of ICT.

Dr Emad Rizk President McKesson Health Solutions
Dr. Rizk is President of McKesson Health Solutions. For more than 18 years, Dr. Rizk has redesigned care management models for the largest health plans in the USA. He has served on the National Clinical Advisory Board and as the head partner and global director of the medical management/pharmacy division for Deloitte Consulting.

Emeritus Professor Lloyd Sansom Chair Pharmacy Benefits Advisory Committee

Professor Sansom  graduated in pharmacy in 1962 and completed his PhD in Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Adelaide in 1972.He retired in 2000 as the Head of the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of South Australia. He was appointed the Chair of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee  in January 2001 having been the Chair of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council since 1991. Professor Sansom has been involved in the development of Australia’s National Medicines Policy. He holds the title of Emeritus Professor at the University of South Australia. .In 2002 Professor Sansom was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for contributions  to the development of national pharmaceutical policy.

Louise Stewart Managing Director Revive Group
Louise is MD of The Revive Group, the Australian arm of publicly listed, global leader Matria Healthcare.  With over 1000 clients across Fortune 500 companies, government and health plans and more than 30 million individuals accessing these programs daily. They focus is on leveraging technology to deliver scalable and cost effective workplace health programs that achieve measurable results.

Prof Napier Thomson President Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Professor Thomson was appointed President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2006 following appointments as Chairman of the Committee for Examinations, Chief Censor, President of the Adult Medicine Division and Deputy President of the RACP. He is also currently the President-Elect of the International Society of Internal Medicine.

Mr Warren Todd Executive Director International Disease Management Alliance
Warren is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Disease Management Alliance and former President and founding board member of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA). In his 35 years as a senior health executive he has been VP of Hastings Healthcare Group and received the DMAA’s “Most Influential Individual in Disease Management” award in 2001.

Assoc Prof Margarite Vale Director The COACH Program

Dr Margarite Vale is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and is the Founder and Director of The COACH Program.  Dr Vale has won international recognition for her work with a Young Investigator Award at the 5th International Conference of Preventive Cardiology in Japan in 2001, the Ralph Reader Prize (Young Investigator Award) for Clinical Science at the 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand at the XIVth World Congress of Cardiology in Sydney in 2002, a Victorian Premier’s Commendation for Medical Research in 2003, a high commendation in the 2005 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards and the 2006 Australian Healthcare Association Baxter Healthcare National Innovation Award for Heath Outcomes.  Her ambition is to see The COACH Program permanently embedded in the healthcare system both in Australia and internationally in both the public and the private sector.

Ms Leanne Wells Manager Policy and Development Australian General Practice Network

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Dr Laurie Williams Chairman and Medical Director Tellimed

Laurie has extensive experience in healthcare, having practiced obstetrics and gynaecology in Melbourne for over thirty years, qualifying for FRANZCOG (1980), FRCOG (1990), and MRCOG (1997). He has also served as the Medical Director of the Western Hospital, Sunshine (1990-1995). Laurie combines his intimate understanding of the healthcare industry with diverse managerial skills and vast business experience.

Dr Andrew Wilson Co-President McKesson Solutions
Dr Andrew Wilson is Co-President of McKesson Asia-Pacific. Since completing a post-graduate in psychiatry in 1991, he has worked at various teaching hospitals, most recently at St Vincent’s Hospital. He is Deputy Chairperson of the RANZCP Quality Improvement Committee and a member of the National Mental Health Working Group Safety and Quality Subcommittee.