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Fellows of the Institute
Prof Farah Magrabi FAIDH, Macquarie University
Institute Fellows form a distinguished group of senior thought leaders within the Institute. As experts in their fields, they are called upon to assist the Board in delivering on the Institute’s Vision and Mission of healthier lives, digitally enabled.
The Institute encourages outstanding health informatics and digital health practitioners to apply for Fellowship.
Newest Fellows & Associate Fellows

Stephen Stoyan FAIDH
Director of Digital Health, Orion Health
Meet some of our latest Fellows! Fellows of the Institute are invited to submit their personal message for the digital health community. Please note the information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication. Please email us to be included below.
Fellows
- Dr Reem Abbas
- Tony Abbenante
- Dr Greg Adamson
- Dr Tanvir Ahamed
- Dr Khyber Alam
- Dr Mohammed Alhefzi
- Dr Helen Almond
- Dr Koray Atalag
- A/Prof Christopher Bain
- Dr Michael Bainbridge CHIA
- Danielle Bancroft
- A/Prof Melissa Baysari
- Dr Graham Beacom CHIA
- Cameron Bean
- Vicki Bennett CHIA
- Dr Jennifer Bichel-Findlay CHIA
- Dr Shiva Sharif Bidabadi
- Dr Niranjan Bidargaddi
- Bob Biddle
- Pedram Bidhendi
- Neville Board
- Dr Ann Borda CHIA
- A/Prof Douglas Boyle
- Mark Brommeyer CHIA
- Andrew Bryant
- David Bunker CHIA
- A/Prof Kerryn Butler-Henderson CHIA
- Kathy Campbell
- Dr Daniel Capurro
- Prof Branko Celler
- Dr Joyce Ka Yin Chan
- Dr Chao Chang
- Dr Clement Cheung
- Dr Ngai Tseung Cheung
- Natalie Chow
- Dr Stephen Chu
- Paul Clarke
- Dr Damian Claydon-Platt CHIA
- Prof Enrico Coiera
- A/Prof Paul Cooper CHIA
- Dr Michael Costello
- Dr Elizabeth Cummings
- Reuben Daniels CHIA
- Dr Peter Del Fante
- Dr Gerardo Luis Dimaguila
- Dr Raelene Donovan CHIA
- Sharon Downman CHIA
- Michael Draheim
- Michael Drew
- Brian Dunstan CHIA
- Kate Ebrill CHIA
- Dr Sisira Edirippulige
- Dr Glenn Edwards
- Dr David Evans CHIA
- Dr Timothy Fazio CHIA
- Dr Juanita Fernando
- Prof Mary Foley AM
- A/Prof Michael Franco
- Dr Oliver Frank
- Vicky Fung
- Dr Sebastian Garde
- Prof Andrew Georgiou
- Karen Gibson
- Janette Gogler
- Dr Dominique Gorse
- A/Prof Heather Grain
- A/Prof Rebecca Grainger CHIA
- James Grant CHIA
- Paul Grant
- Dr Kathleen Gray
- Damian Green
- Grahame Grieve
- A/Prof Naren Gunja CHIA
- Bruce Haefele
- Dr Terry Hannan CHIA
- Dr David Hansen CHIA
- Dr Benjamin Hanson CHIA
- Dr Amandeep Hansra CHIA
- A/Prof Graeme Hart
- Louise Hayes CHIA
- A/Prof Sam Heard
- Dr Leon Heffer
- Dr Kylie Henderson
- Dr Tobias Hodgson
- Claire Holt CHIA
- Dr Rob Hosking
- Dr Evelyn Hovenga
- Dr Wayne Hsueh CHIA
- Man Wai Raphael Hui
- Dr Inga Hunter
- Dr Christina Igasto
- Dr Abdul Qadir (Didir) Imran
- Dr Usman Iqbal
- Vickie Irving
- Dr Farzad Jahedi
- Dr Jitendra Jonnagaddala
- Dr Nadish Kariyawasam CHIA
- Dr Hamza Al Katranji
- David Kempson
- Nadeem Khan
- Dr Sankalp Khanna
- Prof Michael Kidd
- Nicole Kinghorn FAIDH CHIA
- Dr Martin Knapp
- Dr Simon Kos CHIA
- Prof Dinesh Kumar
- Ralph La Tella CHIA
- Dr Mary Lam CHIA
- A/Prof Belinda Lange
- Dr Kieran Le Plastrier
- Prof Michael Legg
- Dr Hugo Leroux
- Dr Hugh Leslie
- Dr Heather Leslie
- Dr Bryn Lewis
- Prof Siaw-Teng Liaw
- Patricia Liebke CHIA
- Dr Frank Lin
- Dr Chang Liu
- Dr Sheree Lloyd
- Dr David Lyell
- Bryan Macdonald
- Dr Peter MacIsaac
- Dr Samaneh (Sam) Madanian
- Prof Anthony Maeder CHIA
- Prof Farah Magrabi
- Dr Meredith Makeham
- Dr Roy Malto
- Dr Robin Mann CHIA
- Nicolle Marchant
- Dr Carey Ann Mather
- Kirsty Maunder CHIA
- Dr Vincent McCauley
- Dan McInerney
- Sari McKinnon
- Adam McLeod
- Bettina McMahon
- Dr Richard McMahon
- Prof Keith McNeil
- Prof Steven McPhail
- Dr Mark Merolli CHIA
- Dr Paul Miles
- Prof Andrew Miller
- Dr Zoran Milosevic
- Dr Farhaan Mirza
- Nathan Moore CHIA
- Dr Dylan Mordaunt CHIA
- Dr David Gordon More
- David Murtagh CHIA
- Prof Roderick Neame
- Mark Nevin
- A/Prof Lemai Nguyen
- Umer Nisar
- David O’Driscoll CHIA
- Dr Obinna Onwude
- Dr Martin Orr
- Dr Joanna Pang
- Jeff Parker
- Prof David Parry
- Prof Jon Patrick
- A/Prof Christopher Pearce
- Dr Nathan Pinskier
- Tina Purnat
- Prof Malcolm Pradhan
- Dr Yasmine Probst
- A/Prof Ronnie Ptasznik
- A/Prof Sandeep Reddy CHIA
- Gabe Rijpma
- Dr Angus Ritchie
- Jeremy Roach CHIA
- A/Prof Gail Robinson CHIA
- Philip Robinson
- Dr Egambarage Shan Semuthujeewa Rodrigo
- Jane Ross CHIA
- David Rowlands CHIA
- Richard Royle
- Dr Greig Russell
- Angela Ryan
- Dr Antony Sara
- Dr Anuj Saraogi FAIDH
- Dr Geoffrey Sayer
- Dr Louise Schaper CHIA
- Dr Suriyaarachchige Nishan Silva
- Shane Simpson
- Chu Hon Sing
- Dr Romi Sinha
- Dr Vitali Sintchenko
- Susan Smith CHIA
- Dr Vinayak Smith
- Prof Frank Smolenaers
- Prof Jeffrey Soar
- Prof Mike South
- Prof Heiko Spallek
- Dr Peter Sprivulis
- Dr Andrew Staib CHIA
- Dr Jan Stanek
- Dr Marty Sterrett
- Stephen Stoyan
- Jo Strother
- Dr Clair Sullivan CHIA
- Richard Taggart CHIA
- James Tan
- Dr Amina Tariq
- Dr Malcolm Thatcher
- Prof Karin Thursky
- Prof Jennifer Tieman
- Dr Monica Trujillo
- Dr Guy Tsafnat
- Peter Tually
- Prof Karin Verspoor
- Dr Shyam Visweswaran
- Dr Doug Vogel
- Dr Peter Wan
- Dr Audrey P Wang
- Dr Victoria Wang
- Prof James Warren
- Dr Stephen Weeding
- Prof Johanna Westbrook
- Prof Nilmini Wickramasinghe
- Chris Williams
- Prof Patricia Williams CHIA
- Peter Williams CHIA
- Paul Willma
- Dr David Ka-Ki Wong
- Dr Wingnam Wong
- Dr Leanna Woods
- David Yee
- Dr Ping Yu
- Dr John Zelcer CHIA
Associate Fellows
- Prof Gareth Baynam
- A/Prof Michael Beckmann CHIA
- Marcus Bettens
- Dr Andrew Blanch
- Sam Brodribb
- Dr Derek Buchanan CHIA
- Erik Richard Cederberg CHIA
- Dr Daryl Cheng CHIA
- Andrew Cording
- Dr Simone Darling
- Nathaniel Dash
- Robert Dashwood CHIA
- Dr Gihan de Mel
- Ian Fletcher
- Andy Fodor CHIA
- Rebecca George
- Dalisay Giffard CHIA
- Dr Myron Godinho
- Sanjeev Hiremath
- Michael Hosking CHIA
- Alison Johnson CHIA
- Stephen Kalyniuk CHIA
- Dr Urooj Raza Khan
- Vivek Krishnan
- Belinda Lee CHIA
- Dr Alastair MacKinlay CHIA
- Chris Manus
- Dr Jamie Marshall
- Dr Ryan Radecki
- Gowri Sriraman CHIA
- Dr Julita Stepien
- Dr Kannan Subramaniam
- Tom Sutherland
- Prof Cassandra Szoeke
- Tanija Tarabay CHIA
- Srujan Valluri
- Dr Darren Webb
- Johnny Sze Ho Wong
- Jo-Anna Wood CHIA
- Dr John Zorbas

Nicole Kinghorn FAIDH CHIA
Statewide Nursing Director, Department of Health, Tasmania

Dr Myron Godinho AFAIDH
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNSW

Dr David Lyell FAIDH
Owner, Future Echoes Business Solutions

Prof Karin Thursky FAIDH
Associate Director of Health Services Research and Implementation Science, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Dr Hamza Al Katranji
EMR Beacon Clinical Analyst, The Royal Children's Hospital

Robert Dashwood CHIA
Senior Digital Solution Architect, Monash Health

Prof Mary Foley AM
Board Director, Telstra Health

Dr Abdul Qadir (Didir) Imran
Chief Medical Informatics Officer & Director Medical Services - Regions, South West Healthcare

Nathan Moore CHIA
Nursing Information Manager, Western Sydney Local Health District

Dr Julita Stępień
Telemedicine Clinic

Andrew Bryant
Chief Customer Officer, Healthdirect Australia

Dr Guy Tsafnat
Founder, Evidentli

Dr Victoria Wang
Founder & CEO, AugmentHealth

Bryan Macdonald
Head of Clinical Outcomes, Telstra Health

Dr Richard McMahon
Medical Doctor, SwiftDoc

A/Prof Gail Robinson CHIA
Metro North Hospital & Health Service

Claire Holt CHIA
Portland District Health

Jeff Parker
JP Consulting

Nicolle Marchant
Digital Health Strategy and Implementation, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT
It is an honour to have been awarded a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Digital Health. Read More

Kate Ebrill CHIA
Business Development Manager and Product Manager, CSIRO
I am very honoured to now be able to say I am a Fellow of the Institute. Read More

Dr Carey Ann Mather
Senior lecturer of the School of Nursing, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania
Becoming a Foundation Fellow during the year of the nurse and midwife highlights to me the positive development of information technology and health. Read More

Dr Tanvir Ahamed
Principal Project Manager, Department of Health & Human Services Victoria
I would like to convey my sincere appreciation to the AIDH Fellowship Committee for accepting me as a Fellow of the institute. Read More

Dr Sankalp Khanna
Research Team Leader , CSIRO, Australian e-Health Research Centre
It is an honour and privilege to be appointed a founding fellow of the institute. Read More

Dr Helen Almond
Lecturer in Digital Health, Swinburne University of Technology
To receive validation of my career and be awarded the Fellowship of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health is a singular honour. Read More

Dr Anuj Saraogi FAIDH
Associate Professor, James Cook University

Nadeem Khan FAIDH
Group Chief Information & Technology Officer

Dr Simon Kos CHIA
Health Industry Executive, Australia New-Zealand, Microsoft

Dr Sheree Lloyd
Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania

Tina Purnat
Team Lead, Infodemic Management, World Health Organisation (WHO)

Alison Johnson CHIA
Project Manager, Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre

Dr Gerardo Luis Dimaguila
Health Informatics Office, Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Chu Hon Sing
System Analyst, Hong Kong Hospital Authority
It is an honour to be with our fellow visionary leaders in the field of digital health delivering healthcare service through emerging technologies. Read More

Paul Grant
Director Health & Life Sciences, EY Australia

David O'Driscoll CHIA
Principal Consultant, Erintide

Vickie Irving
Clinical Health Specialist, Telstra Health

Damian Green
Chief Information Officer, Queensland Health

Brian Dunstan CHIA
Consultant Certified Health Informatician

Dr Wayne Hsueh CHIA
Royal Hospital for Women

Sharon Downman CHIA
Cairns Day Surgery

Dr John Zelcer CHIA
Telehealth Strategies

Dr Samaneh (Sam) Madanian
Lecturer and Academic Advisor, School of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology
It is my great privilege and honour to be accepted as a Fellow of AIDH, one of my aims since I started working on digital health. Read More

A/Prof Sandeep Reddy CHIA
Medical informatician
I am very delighted and thankful to have been accepted as a Fellow by the institute. Read More

David Kempson
Principal Consultant, 161 Digital Tactics
It’s an extremely challenging and rewarding time to be involved in Digital Health. Read More

Dr Dylan Mordaunt CHIA
Clinician, SA Health
In merging HISA and ACHI to form an Australasian body, AIDH is making it clear that the work of what we are now calling digital health, is broad and inclusive. Read More

Dr Nathan Pinskier
Health informatics leader, GP
I am honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of Australian Institute of Digital Health.
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Dr Doug Vogel
eHealth Research Institute Director, Harbin Institute of Technology
The Digital Health future is challenging but bright!! Read More

Prof Keith McNeil
Chief Clinical Information Officer, Queensland Health

Dr Raelene Donovan CHIA
Team Lead, Infodemic Management, World Health Organisation (WHO)

Dr Andrew Blanch
Chief Medical Information Officer, Children’s Health Queensland

Dr Audrey P Wang
Senior Lecturer in Digital Health, The University of Sydney

Vicky Fung
Hong Kong Hospital Authority

Prof Dinesh Kumar
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University

Chris Williams
CIO, Adventist Healthcare

Kathy Campbell
Director, Ockham Consulting

Richard Royle
KEL Health, & Chair AIDH Digital Health Executives Network

Bruce Haefele
AWS

Prof Malcolm Pradhan
Alcidion Corporation

Prof Karin Verspoor
Director of Health Technologies, School of Engineering, University of Melbourne
As an academic computer scientist, I have always sought ways for my work to have real-world impact. Read More

Dr Koray Atalag
CIO at The Clinician and Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Auckland Bioengineering Institute
It’s a privilege to have been accepted as a Foundational Fellow of the AIDH transitioning from my long-standing ACHI Fellowship. Read More

Dr Martin Knapp
Nephrologist (retired)
I am proud to now be a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Digital Health in this foundation year. Read More

Patricia Liebke
Clinical Information System Lead, Ramsay Health Care
Particularly during a year where digital health has well and truly come under the spotlight, the Institute plays a key role in how our profession faces new challenges and opportunities. Read More

Jo Strother
National IT Applications Manager, St Vincent's Health Australia
Being welcomed into the foundational group of Fellows in the AIDH, feels like a warm embrace – from my career beginnings over 30 years ago of being the sole “computer” nerd and data geek in a rural Health Service, to now being a part of this community – I’ve found my tribe! Read More

Dr Dominique Gorse
Director, QFAB Bioinformatics
It is an honour to be recognised by my peers and to be a Fellow of the Institute. Read More

Prof Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Professor Digital Health & Deputy Director Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
I have been researching, advising and teaching in digital health for over 25 years in North America, Europe and Australasia. Read More

Cameron Bean
Commercialisation & Health Lead, Max Kelsen

A/Prof Shyam Visweswaran
Director, Machine Learning in Medicine Center (MLMC), University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics

A/Prof Lemai Nguyen
Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Deakin University

Dr Shiva Sharif Bidabadi
Digital Health CRC

A/Prof Michael Franco
Chief Medical Information Officer, Monash Health

Dr Amina Tariq
Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology

Dr Benjamin Hanson CHIA
CEO, Rivers International Management Services

Gabe Rijpma
CEO, Aceso Health

Dr Kylie Henderson
The Better Health Generation

Dr Graham Beacom CHIA
Queensland Health

Umer Nisar
KPMG

Dr Joyce Ka Yin Chan
Senior Health Informatician
It’s a great honor to be accepted as Fellow for Australasian Institute of Digital Health. Read More

Dr Khyber Alam
GP Principal, Aberdeen
It’s a great honour to be accepted as a foundational Fellow for the Australasian Institute of Digital health. Read More

Sari McKinnon
Consultant – Digital Health
It is an exciting time for digital health right now with so many opportunities for innovation that can transform healthcare delivery. Read More

Dr Stephen Chu
Manager, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
The health sector is extremely information and knowledge intense. Read More

Dr Greg Adamson
Principal, Digital Risk Innovation
During this current global health crisis, we have seen enormous interest in how digital technologies can improve health outcomes. Read More

David Murtagh CHIA
Project Officer, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
My Fellowship is the result of a series of collaborations with clinicians, organisations and my research colleague and wife of thirty years. Read More

Dr Mal Thatcher
Professor of Digital Practice, QUT Business School
The establishment of the AIDH from its predecessor member organisations is a milestone achievement for digital health in Australia and so important in a sector that is only just beginning to embrace digital. Read More

Dr Christina Igasto
Chief Digital Health Officer & CIO, Western Sydney Local Health District

Louise Hayes CHIA
Executive Director, Digital Health & Knowledge, Townsville Hospital and Health Service

Dr Reem Abbas
Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology

Peter Williams
Executive Director Healthcare Industry, Oracle JAPAC

Dr Farzad Jahedi
The University of Queensland

Man Wai Raphael Hui
Former Head of Institute of Health IT, Hong Kong Hospital Authority

Bettina McMahon
Chair, AIDH

Prof Mike South
Chief Medical Information Officer, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

A/Prof Ronnie Ptasznik
Chief Medical Information Officer, Monash Health

Mark Nevin
CEO, RANZCR

Dr Marty Sterrett
Northern Sydney Local Health District

Dr Michael Costello
Digital Health CRC

A/Prof Belinda Lange
Flinders University

A/Prof Melissa Baysari
Associate Professor in Digital Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
I am delighted to join the AIDH Fellowship family and hope this will allow me to meet and collaborate with like-minded people who share a common vision: to improve health and health care with digital health. Read More

Peter O'Halloran
Chief Information Officer, ACT Health

Dr Zoran Milosevic
Director, Deontik Pty Ltd
It is an honour to be appointed as a founding Fellow of AIDH – a new unifying vehicle for hearing the voices of patients, providers, government, research and education organisations. Read More

Dr Hugo Leroux
Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
I feel honoured and humbled to have been accepted as a foundational Fellow of the institute. Read More

Dr Peter Wan
Senior Health Informatician (Clinical Partnership & Professional Development), Information Technology & Health Informatics Division, Hospital Aurthority Head Office, Hong Kong

Dr Rob Hosking
Chair RACG Expert Committee, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
It is an honour to be accepted as an inaugural Fellow of the AIDH in 2020. Read More

Philip Robinson
Non-Executive Director at AIDH, & Principal Consultant, Acrobatic Consulting Services
As a long-time active participant at the annual Health Informatics Conference (HIC) and a Board Member of HISA and now AIDH for more than nine years, it is a privilege to be awarded Fellowship status at AIDH. Read More