Alison is a Clinical Dietitian by background with 15 years of experience within public health. Her Current work role is the Chief Allied Health Informatics Officer for Western Health within the Digital Health team. Alison has been a member of this team for the last 4 years and has been involved in multiple Electronic Medical Record project cycles and implementations over this time. The current focus of this role is to work to enhance the clinical adoption of existing EMR modules and support the successful implementation of the EMR Phase 2 Program which aims to make Western Health fully digital and integrated.  Alison is a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA), holds a Masters of Health Services Management and has completed a master’s level unit in Digital Health.

Motivated by the ability to improve the health and wellbeing of communities and individuals, Tracey has dedicated her career to healthcare having worked across Acute, Primary, Prevention, Community, Statewide services, Federal and State government, and currently consulting within EY. Tracey values working together across the health ecosystem, using the power of partnering and insights to produce better outcomes, become more connected, person-centred and adaptive to changes. She is passionate about how we can create the right momentum to shape the changed future experience, and how we sustain and build through people and in the way we fund and invest. Tracey’s experience spans reforming, maturing and transforming organisations and services -codesigning improved future models and experiences, strategy, benefits, digital health, and health commissioning including: Population-based planning and outcomes-based models targeting investment to address need, community and provider engagement, planning and performance.

Dr Annie Banbury is a digital health researcher and consultant in academia and industry. She is the Head of Research at Coviu, the digital telehealth platform and a Senior Telehealth Consultant at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health. Annie has a PhD in digital health and extensive experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating telehealth interventions across a range of health services and health care settings. She brings over 30 years of experience in health care. Beginning her career in public health she has worked in both Australia and the UK in a diverse portfolio of roles, including running her own consultancy. She has collaborated extensively with a range of health professionals and across health, education, social care and housing sectors. She is a passionate advocate for co-designing and developing digital interventions and technology that meet the end user’s needs, whether health professionals or consumers. Annie lives on the Far North Coast of NSW and enjoys spending her leisure time outside.

Ayushi has worked in digital health for over seven years starting her career at Deloitte Consulting, followed by Royal Children’s Hospital and the Parkville hospitals working on their implementation of electronic medical record, Epic. She is currently working with Global Health Ltd focusing on clients in the community and mental health services sector. She has a Master of Business Administration specialising in Healthcare Management from Deakin University. Her primary focus and interest lies in electronic medical records and how to use technology to improve and optimise workflows for health practitioners while reducing waste and increasing efficiency in the health system. She has recently completed short courses with RMIT University on Project Management and Digital Delivery and is currently working towards completing the SNOMED CT Foundation Course. She is looking forward to learning from the program and working with a talented cohort of women in the Women in Digital Health Leadership Program.

Charmaine is a Program Manager in Clinical Data and Analytics at Northern Sydney Local Health District, NSW and Senior Research Fellow at Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney. Charmaine works at the much-needed interface between clinicians, health service managers, Executives, and data analysts, engineers and scientists, ensuring that insights from the burgeoning amount of digital health data are best utilised to lead to improvements in human health within appropriate governance and privacy safeguards. On a day-to-day basis, she manages an analytics team which focuses on harnessing insights from structured and unstructured data, such as free-text and images, extracted from electronic medical record systems.

Dr Cheryl Tang started her career consulting small and medium businesses, optimising their customer experience and marketing material. She successfully assisted several companies increase their customer satisfaction, client loyalty and, subsequently, revenue. In 2012, she graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Science and Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery at The University of Melbourne. She completed her internship and Resident Medical Officer years at Bendigo Health. This allowed her to acquire a broad medical experience, including several surgical specialties, intensive care, rehabilitation and palliative care, and exposure to the unique challenges of regional/rural medicine. Dr Tang joined the Disability Medical Assessment Program as Government-Contracted Doctor in 2016. She was appointed as Lead Doctor in 2017. In this role, Dr Tang is responsible for ensuring Sonic’s national network of doctors and clinical psychologists are highly trained and deliver outstanding clinical services to Services Australia (formally the Department of Human Services). She also works in Occupational Medicine at various Sonic HealthPlus locations.

I am passionate about ensuring all within the health care system obtain the best possible benefit from health information across its lifecycle. As such I actively seek opportunities and education to develop my knowledge, skills and abilities to support myself and others in this endeavour including achieving becoming a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA), and currently undertaking a Masters of Analytics. My experience in government and non-government organisations including in roles as a clinical dietitian, utilising health information to support codesign of improvements in the health care delivered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members, patient safety and quality as well as system administration for a clinical audit platform. I currently have the fantastic opportunity of working with partners and consumers looking at improving the health, wellbeing and care for our older community members and how we can collaborate in this journey together including communication of health information.

Passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of all people living in Australia through using digital health technologies, Clara Lubbers has worked in digital health for nearly 5 years. She is currently the Director of Digital Channel Management in the National COVID Vaccine Taskforce in the Australian Government Department of Health. Clara focuses on using human-centred design and engaging across the healthcare sector and the community to effectively deliver enhancements and rollout new digital systems to support the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Clara formerly led the international program at the Australian Digital Health Agency: Leading international virtual teams, and teams internally, to deliver nine global white papers and five global summits in Canberra, Washington DC, London, New Delhi and Hong Kong SAR involving intercultural negotiations across vastly different cultural contexts. She is passionate about healthcare and social and environmental responsibility in national and international contexts – we are all global citizens! Her interests include languages and cultures, tennis, reading, bush walking and Latin American dancing.

Jo Hunter is Assistant deputy director of pharmacy – Informatics at Monash Health (Vic), where she leads the pharmacy informatics team and liaises with the EMR team to optimise the safe use of digital health systems across the organisation. The past 2 years have provided much opportunity for change in digital health, with the design of new workflows to enable healthcare clinicians to utilise technology and virtual care. Working in virtual care projects to ensure safe and quality patient care can continue even when face to face consultations are not possible has been an achievement that Jo is proud of. Having a leadership role means much more than just managing a team, but includes inspiring, driving and strategizing – skills which Jo is keen to develop as part of the WiDH program.

Juliana’s personal objectives – work in a growth mindset, striving to grow and be better and broaden her perspective. Juliana’s professional objectives – directly influence delivery of safe, effective systems to support the patient journey leveraging digital strategies to ensure customer focus, transparency and accountability. Juliana has worked in public pathology for over 30 years. With a sound understanding of the pathology business and its relationship and contribution to the clinical care continuum, she has been responsible for strategy, planning, policy development, program management and implementation of programs of strategic importance to pathology. As current ICT Program Director in NSW Health Pathology, she has intimate knowledge and experience with the integration of health information and a deep understanding of the importance and potential that interoperability of digital health information can contribute to positive health outcomes for patients and the community at large.

Ka Choy, an ICT Security Manager joins Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network of NSW Health in mid-March 2022. Highly regarded professional with extensive information security and regional/global project management experience in both public and private sectors including SA Health of SA Government, Canberra Health Services and Access Canberra of ACT Government and the world’s top port operator group.

Demonstrated records of achievement in the cybersecurity/information security Governance Risk and Compliance, operation and management; led and coordinated ICT projects in changing environments and achieved optimal business outcomes. Known for a 3”C” – Confidence, Collaborative and Communicative and an authentic leadership style. Skilled in trust building and earned positive feedback consistently across business lines.

In her free time, Ka loves travelling across the globe, playing piano, listening to music and an enthusiastic volunteer in Powerhouse museum and Vinnies.

Karen is a Legal Counsel at Novartis Australia.  She has had diverse legal experience for over 13 years and is a qualified lawyer in Australia, New York, and England & Wales. Prior to joining Novartis, Karen was responsible for managing the legal and privacy functions in Australia and New Zealand for a global integrated provider of dialysis products and services. Karen is a passionate advocate for digital innovation and transformation.  She holds a Master of Laws in Innovation, Technology and the Law from the University of Edinburgh where she furthered her interest in how the law can promote new and emerging technologies in public health and make real positive societal impacts, particularly in developing countries. Karen is a Member Engagement Coordinator in the Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Cybersecurity Community of Practice.

My goal is to work with clinician’s, understand their business needs, and translate this using my clinical and digital skills into a product which is meaningful for patients and gives clinicians something they are proud to use. I am currently working with Radiation Oncology across multiple sites to merge separate instances of their main clinical application and migrate this to a cloud platform. Prior to coming to digital health and project management, I was a registered nurse for 13 years with the majority of this time spent in ICU. By completing this course I hope to gain more confidence and knowledge in the digital health space and consolidate my leadership skills, meet like-minded individuals and broaden my personal and professional networks. When I’m not working my hobbies include looking for Melbourne’s best cold brew, being a plant mama and exercise (although I’m no elite athlete!)

Melissa Fodera is an innovative and engaging industry respected Chief Pharmacy Informatics Officer (CPIO) Nationally, with experience in supporting the design, build and implementation of numerous clinical systems within various health and medical settings and at national and multinational levels. She was part of the initial public hospital rollout of EMR at Austin Health and now is the CPIO at Western Health. Trusted advisor and analytically focused on building authentic and collaborative partnerships with senior clients, stakeholders and department heads, whilst driving medication safety improvements with perceptive, insightful and best in class digital health solutions. Melissa is passionate about digital health and how it can be used to improve clinical care, particular around the automation and innovation for medication management.

Monica Rayson is Deputy Director of Pharmacy (Operations) at Canberra Health Services and an accredited consultant pharmacist providing Home Medicine Reviews. She is a senior pharmacist with over ten years of experience working in management and leadership positions in both regional and metropolitan hospital settings. Monica is passionate about using health informatics to identify and improve patient safety and operational efficiencies. She is currently leading a pharmacy project to introduce a new pharmacy information management system throughout the hospital pharmacies of ACT Health as part of the ACT Health digital reform.  As a pharmacy leader and mother of two young daughters, Monica is keen to role model the benefits and joy of being a lifelong learner and investing in oneself. When she is not at work you will most likely find Monica in the great outdoors of Canberra hiking or picnicking with her family or at home in her sewing room.

Noushin Nazarian is a Technical Support Engineer at Siemens Healthcare with more than a decade of experience in the healthcare industry. She completed a Master of Biomedical Engineering and has expanded her knowledge through working in the field of medical imaging and women’s health, which helped her to gain some significant insights into healthcare. Inspired by trends of digital transformation, she completed a Graduate Certificate in Digital Health at Melbourne University in 2020 and continued her passion by pursuing a Master of Information Systems, specializing in health. As a strong believer in diversity, she is determined to develop leadership skills and understand her potential to be amongst the next generation of digital health leaders and discover new pathways to be part of this community.

Rebecca Heland is the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer at ACT Health and is currently working with an awesome team to implement the one Digital Health Record system across all specialities in all public health facilities in the ACT. Rebecca has been a nurse for 17 years in hospitals across Melbourne, Singapore and Canberra, has a Master’s in Public Health and has worked in various digital health projects for the last 8 years. Rebecca is passionate about ensuring that the role of the nurse/midwife is heard as part of all digital health projects and that systems that are implemented into the healthcare environment improve the working life for nurses/midwives and the outcomes for their patients.

Renata is an experienced program manager with demonstrated experience in the development and delivery of complex projects in the healthcare and higher education sectors. Currently she is the Digital Health Lead at Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN providing strategic business planning, program development and implementation oversight for the digital health portfolio. Most notably, Renata was also recently played a critical role in coordinating activities to develop the PHN’s five-year joint regional plan for mental health, suicide prevention and alcohol and other drugs services.

Renata is experienced at implementing change management and service enhancement strategies within different organisations. She is passionate about digital transformation as an enabler to making a difference, using technology to improve both provider and patient experience of healthcare services and ultimately improving health outcomes, and believes in the power of human-centred design and social change.

Rhian is a health care ITC specialist with over 10 years’ industry experience. She has delivered clinical system implementations, workflow improvements, data quality and reporting strategies across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Rhian has worked in a variety of roles including project manager, implementation lead, subject matter expert and most recently in product management. Rhian’s engagements span varied stakeholder groups, from subject matter experts through to the C-Suite. Rhian is passionate about delivering transformative solutions with health care organisations to improve business processes and patient outcomes.

Robyn is passionate about leveraging digital health to improve health outcomes and enhance the experience of health professionals to deliver a positive experience for both patients and their families. Having worked in healthcare for over 20 years, with a diverse background in health information management has supported significant transformational change through the implementation of ICT systems, delivering clinical benefits and business improvements. Experienced at leading Health Information, Clinical Coding, and Casemix teams, and project managing the implementation of large health datasets. Currently is the Senior Health Information Manager at Telstra Health, overseeing the data management activities for the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) and leads the Clinical and Health Informatics Community of Practice. Also is part of the team that won Telstra Health’s inaugural Hack for Digital Healthcare. A curious mind and knowledge seeker always interested in finding out how we can lead ourselves and others to do better.