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Hayley Ball

Cardiac Care Clinical Consultant

Hay­ley is a pas­sion­ate nurs­ing pro­fes­sion­al with over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence in clin­i­cal care, edu­ca­tion, and lead­er­ship across South Aus­tralia. She cur­rent­ly works as a Car­diac Net­work Advi­sor, lead­ing statewide ini­tia­tives to improve car­diac care that enhances patient out­comes. Hayley’s strong foun­da­tion in car­dio­tho­racic inten­sive care, car­di­ol­o­gy and res­pi­ra­to­ry nurs­ing and oth­er role as a pro­gram nurse edu­ca­tor, means that she brings deep exper­tise in com­plex patient man­age­ment and qual­i­ty improve­ment. Out­side of work, she enjoys trav­el, hik­ing, and fam­i­ly adven­tures with her hus­band and two kids — whether it’s camp­ing under the stars or cook­ing up feasts with friends.

Heather Baron

Networks Program Director

Heather began her career as an allied health clin­i­cian in speech pathol­o­gy, work­ing across a range of ter­tiary and com­mu­ni­ty-based ser­vices. She has since held a vari­ety of senior pro­fes­sion­al and oper­a­tional lead­er­ship roles across com­mu­ni­ty, hos­pi­tal and cor­po­rate set­tings in the pub­lic health system.

Heather enjoys both big-pic­ture strate­gic work and the detail of day-to-day oper­a­tions that all seek to make a dif­fer­ence in the way our health sys­tem oper­ates to improve out­comes for consumers. 

Out­side of work she enjoys spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and friends, going to the gym, read­ing and gardening.

Iain Bertram

Senior Data Scientist

Before join­ing The CEIH Iain spent his time using machine learn­ing on extreme­ly big data sets to inves­ti­gate the fun­da­men­tal prop­er­ties of the Uni­verse, such as the struc­ture of the pro­ton, ​“Why is the uni­verse made of mat­ter instead of anti­mat­ter?”, and is there some­thing weird lurk­ing just beyond reach. Iain is now using this expe­ri­ence to use machine learn­ing to improve health out­comes in South Aus­tralia. Away from the office, Iain enjoys walk­ing in the Ade­laide Hills, los­ing him­self in a good book, and deli­cious food.

Laticia Bruce

Project Officer

Lati­cia is a health­care oper­a­tions pro­fes­sion­al with expe­ri­ence in pub­lic health, dig­i­tal inno­va­tion, and clin­i­cal project deliv­ery. At CEIH, she sup­ports statewide ini­tia­tives like the LIINC+ Pro­gram, improv­ing care tran­si­tions across hos­pi­tals, aged care, and gen­er­al prac­tice. With strengths in project man­age­ment, stake­hold­er engage­ment, and data-informed plan­ning, she brings a sys­tems-think­ing approach to col­lab­o­ra­tive, cross-sec­tor solu­tions. Lati­cia is also Deputy Chair of the SA Health Young Pro­fes­sion­als Group, cham­pi­oning future health lead­ers. Out­side work, she enjoys time with loved ones, choco­late, wine, cre­ative dig­i­tal projects, and hands-on home ren­o­va­tions — a future Block­head in the making!

Justin Chai

Project Manager

Justin is a neu­ro­log­i­cal phys­io­ther­a­pist with over a decade of expe­ri­ence work­ing in clin­i­cal reha­bil­i­ta­tion and more recent­ly in oper­a­tional man­age­ment with SA Health. He is pas­sion­ate about embrac­ing inno­v­a­tive ways to address the myr­i­ad of chal­lenges fac­ing the health sys­tem to ulti­mate­ly effect sus­tain­able, scal­able and pos­i­tive change to patient health out­comes. His oth­er work inter­ests also include lead­er­ship mod­els, high-per­for­mance work sys­tems and strate­gies to facil­i­tate effec­tive organ­i­sa­tion­al change. Out­side of work, he enjoys film, music and videog­ra­phy; cook­ing and gas­tron­o­my; and shar­ing life with fam­i­ly and friends.

Simone Christin-Durant

Interim Executive Director, Consumer and Clinical Partnerships & Program Director, South Australian Comprehensive Cancer Network

Simone has over 15 years of expe­ri­ence in health sys­tem lead­er­ship, pro­gram man­age­ment, gov­er­nance and stake­hold­er engage­ment. Her work focus­es on dri­ving col­lab­o­ra­tion across the health sys­tem, sup­port­ing inno­va­tion, and trans­lat­ing pol­i­cy and evi­dence into mean­ing­ful improve­ments in care. 

She is pas­sion­ate about improv­ing health out­comes through strong part­ner­ships across the health­care ecosys­tem and beyond. Simone enjoys bring­ing peo­ple togeth­er to dri­ve inno­va­tion, improve equi­ty and sup­port sus­tain­able improve­ments across the health system.

Jahnavee Dave

Networks Program Support Officer

Jah­navee sup­ports clin­i­cal net­works and col­lab­o­ra­tive ini­tia­tives that improve health out­comes across South Aus­tralia. She has a back­ground in pub­lic health, with expe­ri­ence in pro­gram sup­port, stake­hold­er engage­ment and project coor­di­na­tion. Jah­navee is pas­sion­ate about health equi­ty, health pro­mo­tion and fos­ter­ing mean­ing­ful part­ner­ships that con­tribute to bet­ter out­comes for com­mu­ni­ties. Out­side of work, she enjoys explor­ing new tech­nolo­gies, play­ing bad­minton, con­tin­u­ous learn­ing and read­ing fic­tion novels.

Leanne Davis

Project Manager

Leanne brings over 16 years’ expe­ri­ence in the not-for-prof­it health sec­tor, span­ning Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander pro­grams, chron­ic dis­ease, and can­cer care across adult, AYA, and pae­di­atric set­tings. She is a strong advo­cate for per­son-cen­tred care, with exper­tise in con­sumer, com­mu­ni­ty, and stake­hold­er engage­ment. Leanne is com­mit­ted to strength­en­ing part­ner­ships that improve health out­comes and sys­tem expe­ri­ence. Out­side of work, she enjoys time with fam­i­ly and friends and is a ded­i­cat­ed sports fan, often wak­ing up ear­ly to sup­port her beloved Man­ches­ter City.

Marlou de Booij

Project Manager

Lou has worked in Health­care for over 17 years. She under­took her nurs­ing train­ing in The Nether­lands, then packed up and moved to Aus­tralia. Her wide range of nurs­ing expe­ri­ence includes aged‑, sur­gi­cal- and acute care but Lou spent most of her career in the emer­gency depart­ment. In 2017, she jumped ship to the Out­pa­tient care set­ting where she stream­lined refer­ral man­age­ment process­es and worked as a Project Man­ag­er. Lou has a strong pas­sion to dri­ve inno­va­tion in health­care to improve qual­i­ty of care pro­vid­ed, stream­line care path­ways which will enable a pos­i­tive health care expe­ri­ence for the con­sumer and empow­er­ing con­sumers to feel they are in charge of their health. Lou is a well-estab­lished yogi, she loves to be active and out­doors, prefer­ably climb­ing a rock or two and spend time with her fam­i­ly and friends. 

Zora Doukas

Business Operations Manager

Zora has almost 2 decades expe­ri­ence in the pub­lic sec­tor, most­ly in Min­is­te­r­i­al Offices and man­age­ment roles. She has a pas­sion for estab­lish­ing excel­lent busi­ness struc­ture and effec­tive process­es that are stream­lined and achieve out­comes. Zora also loves work­ing with peo­ple and cre­at­ing pos­i­tive team cul­ture. Out­side of work Zora has a pas­sion for music, trav­el, cook­ing (need­less to say has a sweet-tooth) and vol­un­teers her time on com­mu­ni­ty radio which she finds reward­ing and fun.

Lauren Goodwin

Project Manager

Lau­ren brings a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary back­ground across phys­io­ther­a­py, pub­lic health and gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy. Her career spans front­line clin­i­cal prac­tice and sys­tem-lev­el reform, enabling her to trans­late com­plex pol­i­cy and reform objec­tives into prac­ti­cal, out­come-focused projects across health and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vices. She is moti­vat­ed by work that strength­ens health sys­tems and improves expe­ri­ences and out­comes for com­mu­ni­ties. Out­side of work, Lau­ren enjoys writ­ing and read­ing fic­tion, run­ning, and com­plet­ing a week­ly quiz over cof­fee and a cin­na­mon scroll.

Tina Hardin

Executive Director, Clinical Informatics and Innovation

Tina brings over 25 years of expe­ri­ence across the health sys­tem, with deep exper­tise in clin­i­cal infor­mat­ics, data and ana­lyt­ics, and dig­i­tal inno­va­tion. Tina leads high-per­form­ing teams to deliv­er prac­ti­cal, evi­dence-based improve­ments, bal­anc­ing inno­va­tion with the effec­tive use of data to dri­ve bet­ter deci­sions and patient out­comes. A col­lab­o­ra­tive and prag­mat­ic leader, she has led major data and inno­va­tion pro­grams and con­tributed to state and nation­al health ini­tia­tives. Her goal is to improve patient out­comes by advanc­ing per­son­alised care and pre­ci­sion med­i­cine through bet­ter use of data and build­ing a strong cul­ture of inno­va­tion. Out­side of work, she enjoys trav­el­ling, good food and great company.

Cally Jennings

Project Manager

Cal­ly has inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence work­ing in health pro­mo­tion with­in gov­ern­ment, aca­d­e­m­ic, and non-gov­ern­ment set­tings. Com­plet­ing a PhD at CQUni­ver­si­ty Aus­tralia in the area of health pro­mo­tion through phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, she has expe­ri­ence work­ing across a vari­ety of health areas, includ­ing men­tal health (youth and adult), alco­hol and oth­er drug, phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, nutri­tion, abo­rig­i­nal health, employ­ment sup­port and home­less­ness. Cal­ly is pas­sion­ate about work­ing in part­ner­ship with con­sumers and stake­hold­ers and embed­ding imple­men­ta­tion research prac­tices into health­care with the aim of dri­ving con­tin­u­ous improve­ments and inno­va­tion. Out­side of work Cal­ly loves spend­ing time with her fam­i­ly, enjoy­ing good food and stay­ing active.

Radhika Kushwaha

Assistant Project Officer

Rad­hi­ka sup­ports the CEI­H’s Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­works. With a clin­i­cal back­ground in den­tistry and a Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health, she brings expe­ri­ence in stake­hold­er engage­ment, project sup­port and com­mu­ni­ty-focused health ini­tia­tives. She is pas­sion­ate about health equi­ty, mul­ti­cul­tur­al health lit­er­a­cy and devel­op­ing inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that improve access to health­care for diverse com­mu­ni­ties. Out­side of work, she enjoys going on hikes, swim­ming and spon­ta­neous road trips.

Lachlan

Hi, my name is Lach­lan. I cur­rent­ly work part-time at a pri­ma­ry school can­teen and as a com­mu­ni­ty researcher in an advi­so­ry group with Flinders University.

I joined YAG so that I could help improve tran­si­tion to adult health ser­vices for future young peo­ple. Hav­ing been in and out of the health care sys­tem with mul­ti­ple chron­ic ill­ness­es since I was a child I have had dif­fi­cul­ties tran­si­tion­ing and would like to share my expe­ri­ences to help make the sys­tem better.

Madeline Little

Partnerships Senior Project Officer

Made­line is new to the health sec­tor but brings near­ly a decade of expe­ri­ence in the pri­vate sec­tor, where she’s worked across a range of cre­ative and project man­age­ment roles — includ­ing as a Brand Man­ag­er and Prod­uct Coor­di­na­tor. Made­line is excit­ed to apply her skills in a new con­text and con­tribute to improv­ing health out­comes in South Aus­tralia. When she’s not wran­gling projects, you’ll like­ly find her at the pot­tery wheel — she’s a com­mit­tee mem­ber at Australia’s old­est pot­tery club — or at home with her res­cue cat, Tortellini. 

Van Luong

Project Manager - Partnerships

Van is a phar­ma­cist with more than 25 years’ expe­ri­ence in health­care, includ­ing com­mu­ni­ty and hos­pi­tal phar­ma­cy, clin­i­cal oper­a­tions, imple­men­ta­tion and qual­i­ty improve­ment. As a Project Man­ag­er, Van sup­ports projects in clin­i­cal tri­als and care for peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing home­less­ness. Van enjoys work­ing with peo­ple across the health and com­mu­ni­ty sec­tors and con­tribut­ing to prac­ti­cal improve­ments in care. Out­side of work, he enjoys cook­ing, run­ning, hik­ing and trav­el­ling with his wife and two sons.

Katie Maiolo

Networks Program Director

Katie has worked in health for 15 years with the last 12 of those being in SA Health. A nurse manger orig­i­nal­ly, Katie also has a strong back­ground in Elec­tron­ic Med­ical Record (EMR) projects and clin­i­cal data man­age­ment, specif­i­cal­ly in secu­ri­ty and gov­er­nance. Katie has a pas­sion for estab­lish­ing effec­tive process­es that are patient-cen­tred with qual­i­ty out­comes. Out­side of work Katie enjoys water ski­ing on the Mur­ray and gin tastings. 

Craig Martin

Director - LIINC+ Program

Craig has more than 20 years’ expe­ri­ence across pub­lic and pri­vate health­care, includ­ing gen­er­al prac­tice, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, pub­lic pathol­o­gy, not-for-prof­it organ­i­sa­tions and dig­i­tal health. Craig has led major busi­ness, inno­va­tion and health­care improve­ment ini­tia­tives, includ­ing dig­i­tal health plat­forms, and nation­al roles with Aus­tralian Med­ical Spe­cial­ist Col­leges. He is pas­sion­ate about using data, tech­nol­o­gy and col­lab­o­ra­tion to improve health­care and patient out­comes. Out­side of work, Craig enjoys spend­ing time with his wife, grand­daugh­ter and two dogs, while con­stant­ly plan­ning their next dream hol­i­day to Italy.

Keith McNeil

Commissioner

Pro­fes­sor Kei­th McNeil is a health­care pow­er­house with a 42-year career spent on the front­lines of patient care and inno­va­tion.

Kei­th joined us from his posi­tion as Chief Med­ical Offi­cer of Queens­land Health.

He has pre­vi­ous­ly served in a num­ber of senior lead­er­ship roles in the health sec­tor, includ­ing Chief Clin­i­cal Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer roles in the NHS and Queens­land, hos­pi­tal and health ser­vice CEO roles in Queens­land and Cam­bridge UK, and as Act­ing Deputy Direc­tor Gen­er­al of Clin­i­cal Excel­lence Queensland.

Maxwell Mussared

Data Scientist and Analyst

Max worked at the Depart­ment for Health and Well­be­ing upgrad­ing IT sys­tems and improv­ing data col­lec­tion, report­ing and ana­lyt­ics capa­bil­i­ties. He comes from a back­ground in sta­tis­tics and data sci­ence, hav­ing worked for the Aus­tralian Bureau of Sta­tis­tics devel­op­ing new meth­ods to get the best insights from data, by using sta­tis­ti­cal and machine learn­ing meth­ods. Max is pas­sion­ate about using data to get the best out­comes from our health sys­tem and make a pos­i­tive impact on peo­ple’s lives.

Out­side of work you can find him in the gar­den dig­ging for worms, or out on the rug­by pitch (often face down in the mud, inad­ver­tent­ly dig­ging for worms!).

Monica Novick

Partnerships Program Director

Mon­i­ca has over 30 years expe­ri­ence in the health and com­mu­ni­ty sec­tor, work­ing across local, state and com­mon­wealth in health and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice pol­i­cy, gov­er­nance and reform. She is pas­sion­ate about part­ner­ship, col­lab­o­ra­tion and inte­gra­tion to deliv­er bet­ter out­comes for con­sumers and how we inno­vate and embed change in the won­der­ful­ly chal­leng­ing and com­plex sys­tem that is health. Out­side of work, she enjoys time with her yoga, book read­ing, walk­ing and good eat­ing com­mu­ni­ties of prac­tice and lazy week­ends pre­tend­ing to be a ded­i­cat­ed gar­den­er whilst con­tem­plat­ing where to trav­el next.

Oliver

My name is Oliv­er, I am cur­rent­ly in year 11 at school. Out­side of school I work at a retail store as both a team mem­ber and duty man­ag­er, as well as being part of a local St Johns, Youth Unit. In my spare time I enjoy spend­ing time with friends and fam­i­ly, play­ing com­put­er games, board games and lis­ten­ing to music. 

I joined the YAG (Youth Advi­so­ry Group) at the sug­ges­tion of my mum, but also, as I have been per­son­al­ly fre­quent­ly involved in the health care sys­tem, hav­ing the chance to help improve it for future gen­er­a­tions is some­thing that I am pas­sion­ate about. 

Olivia

My name is Olivia, I am 19 years old and am cur­rent­ly study­ing reg­is­tered nurs­ing at uni­ver­si­ty. I joined the Youth Advi­so­ry Group, hop­ing to use my own expe­ri­ences to improve health care for oth­er young peo­ple in South Australia. 

I was born with birth defects and chron­ic health con­di­tions which has meant I have spent a lot of time receiv­ing med­ical care across pae­di­atric and adult hos­pi­tals and ser­vices. Through these expe­ri­ences, I under­stand how impor­tant a com­pre­hen­sive and respon­sive health­care sys­tem is for peo­ple liv­ing with dis­abil­i­ties and com­plex health con­di­tions. In my free time, I enjoy sup­port­ing the Matil­das and the Euro­pean Women’s Super League. 

I am excit­ed to be a part of the Youth Advi­so­ry Group and have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to advo­cate for young peo­ple in the health­care sys­tem and work on ini­tia­tives that lead to pos­i­tive change. I am espe­cial­ly pas­sion­ate about help­ing to improve care in the tran­si­tion between pae­di­atric and adult ser­vices as well as improv­ing care for young peo­ple with feed­ing tubes. I look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to be involved in the mean­ing­ful projects that the YAG take on into the future.

Isabella Pittaway

Communications and Engagement Lead

Bel­la is a com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al with expe­ri­ence across gov­ern­ment and media. As Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Engage­ment Lead, she leads strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions that sup­port inno­va­tion, part­ner­ships and health sys­tem improve­ment across South Aus­tralia. With a back­ground in jour­nal­ism and pub­lic sec­tor com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Bel­la brings a strong focus on clear, acces­si­ble con­tent and mean­ing­ful audi­ence engage­ment. She is pas­sion­ate about trans­lat­ing com­plex ideas into prac­ti­cal, peo­ple-cen­tred com­mu­ni­ca­tion that dri­ves impact. Out­side of work, Bel­la enjoys hav­ing mul­ti­ple books on the go and plan­ning her next trav­el adventure. 

Scott Pointon

User Interface/Experience Developer

Scott can often be found at the water cool­er talk­ing about the lat­est UX prin­ci­ples to any­one who’ll lis­ten. He brings 20 years of expe­ri­ence in IT, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Dig­i­tal roles in gov­ern­ment and has deliv­ered a range of suc­cess­ful cus­tomer-first dig­i­tal solu­tions. Whether it’s design­ing a dash­board, web appli­ca­tion, or giv­ing advice on the best tech­nique for bicep curls, Scot­t’s enthu­si­asm and ded­i­ca­tion guar­an­tees he’ll get the best out­comes for his cus­tomers. He puts the ​‘you’ in UX.

Amy Raggatt

Data Scientist

Amy joins us from the Aus­tralian Tax­a­tion Office, where she worked as a data sci­en­tist devel­op­ing and main­tain­ing machine learn­ing mod­els. Pri­or to com­plet­ing her Mas­ter of Data Sci­ence, Amy worked as a high school math­e­mat­ics teacher for over 10 years. She has a pas­sion for teach­ing oth­ers the val­ue that data sci­ence can bring, inspir­ing inno­va­tion and engage­ment. Amy cur­rent­ly works on statewide health ana­lyt­ics projects, with a focus on can­cer care, clin­i­cal qual­i­ty indi­ca­tors and trans­lat­ing com­plex health­care data into mean­ing­ful insights for deci­sion-mak­ers. Out­side of work, she enjoys spend­ing time with her young fam­i­ly and tack­ling home improve­ment and gar­den­ing projects.

Joanne Roberts

Executive Support Officer - Professor Keith McNeil

Jo brings more than 20 years’ senior admin­is­tra­tive and exec­u­tive sup­port expe­ri­ence across SA Health and the pri­vate sec­tor, with strengths in exec­u­tive coor­di­na­tion and con­fi­den­tial sup­port, stake­hold­er liai­son, meet­ing gov­er­nance and an abil­i­ty to keep com­plex work organ­ised and mov­ing forward. 

Jo is known for her atten­tion to detail, calm and pro­fes­sion­al approach, reli­a­bil­i­ty and com­mit­ment to improv­ing sys­tems and process­es. She brings warmth, prac­ti­cal­i­ty and a gen­uine peo­ple focus to both her pro­fes­sion­al and per­son­al life, includ­ing through her com­mu­ni­ty vol­un­teer­ing with Guide Dogs SA.

Roman

My name is Roman, and I am 19 and liv­ing in SA. I am cur­rent­ly study­ing a cer­tifi­cate III in lab tech with the aim to work in health­care. I have cho­sen this career path­way and have joined the YAG so that I can help con­tribute to improv­ing health out­comes of young South Australians.

Bianca Sakkers

SACCaN Program Support Officer

Bian­ca joins the CEIH team from the Wom­en’s and Chil­dren’s Health Net­work, where she worked as an Admin­is­tra­tion Assis­tant with­in Sur­gi­cal Ser­vices for over three years. Pri­or to this, she start­ed her work­ing jour­ney back in 2017, com­plet­ing a trainee­ship through Jobs 4 Youth and com­menc­ing as a trainee with TechIn­SA. She loves spend­ing her free time with fam­i­ly and friends indulging in a wine or two, as well as vis­it­ing her hol­i­day home on the Yorke Penin­su­la or trav­el­ling to the South East.

Ramesh Sonti

Data Analyst

Ramesh spe­cialis­es in health data ana­lyt­ics, infor­ma­tion man­age­ment and report­ing, with expe­ri­ence in design­ing data solu­tions, improv­ing data qual­i­ty and sup­port­ing evi­dence-based deci­sion-mak­ing. His work focus­es on trans­form­ing com­plex data into mean­ing­ful insights that inform health ser­vice plan­ning, per­for­mance mon­i­tor­ing and ser­vice improve­ment ini­tia­tives. Out­side of work, Ramesh enjoys explor­ing emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies, con­tin­u­ous learn­ing and spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and friends.

Tony Stavrou

Project Manager

Tony has worked in in health sec­tor for 15 years in admin­is­tra­tive, project and man­age­ment roles and is pas­sion­ate about work­ing with oth­ers to improve health in SA. Whilst being an agent for improve­ment and change in his pro­fes­sion­al life, his music tastes haven’t changed since the 1980s, still rock­ing to bands like Whites­nake, Queen, Def Lep­pard and Aerosmith. 

Rebecca Stokes

Compliance and Reporting Lead

Rebec­ca has a strong back­ground in health admin­is­tra­tion, gov­er­nance and risk man­age­ment, with expe­ri­ence across clin­i­cal oper­a­tions, finan­cial and HR man­age­ment, and com­pli­ance frame­works. She’s known for her focus on qual­i­ty improve­ment, audit readi­ness and effec­tive organ­i­sa­tion­al process­es. Out­side of work, she enjoys spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and explor­ing all the won­der­ful places in Adelaide.

Gig Stuart

Networks Program Support Officer

Gig joins us from SA Den­tal and brings sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence super­vis­ing mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary teams, man­ag­ing com­pet­ing pri­or­i­ties, and coor­di­nat­ing work­flows across ser­vices. Gig has strong inter­per­son­al and stake­hold­er engage­ment skills, hav­ing worked close­ly with clin­i­cians, exter­nal part­ners and sup­port teams, with the abil­i­ty to build rela­tion­ships and con­tribute to pos­i­tive outcomes. 

Georgina Szabo

Data Scientist

Pri­or to join­ing CEIH, Georgie worked for the Depart­ment for Cor­rec­tion­al Ser­vices trans­form­ing how they used data to meet key strate­gic and oper­a­tional objec­tives. Before dis­cov­er­ing a love of data and study­ing a Mas­ter of Data Sci­ence, she worked as a Reg­is­tered Nurse across the pub­lic and pri­vate health sec­tors. Her nurs­ing back­ground includes roles in peri­op­er­a­tive and pri­ma­ry health nurs­ing, and her claim to fame is admin­is­ter­ing the 50,000^th COVID vac­ci­na­tion at the Wayville vac­ci­na­tion clin­ic, fea­tured in the Adver­tis­er news­pa­per. Georgie is excit­ed to now be com­bin­ing her data sci­ence skills and clin­i­cal back­ground to tack­le the chal­lenges fac­ing the South Aus­tralian health­care sys­tem. Out­side of work she enjoys cook­ing, train­ing for fun runs and buy­ing too many houseplants. 

Sofia Tsoukalas

Project Manager

Sofia has worked in Patient Admin­is­tra­tive (PAS) roles with­in the Pub­lic Health sec­tor for over 20 years, bring­ing expe­ri­ence in Patient Admin­is­tra­tion process­es in areas such as Med­ical Record Man­age­ment, Elec­tive Surgery Man­age­ment and Admit­ted Patient Care. Sofia recent­ly led a Patient Admin­is­tra­tion team as part of the imple­men­ta­tion of the Elec­tron­ic Med­ical Record (EMR) project and has a pas­sion for patient data integri­ty and nur­tur­ing a shared appre­ci­a­tion of its impor­tance. In her per­son­al time, she loves trav­el­ling, shop­ping and spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and friends. 

Annie Wheeler

Innovation Project Officer

Annie’s pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence is var­ied across sec­tors, most promi­nent­ly in health and med­ical inno­va­tion with­in gov­ern­ment. With a bach­e­lors in health and med­ical sci­ences (advanced) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ade­laide, and a post grad­u­ate cer­tifi­cate in pub­lic health from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Queens­land, her knowl­edge inter­sects between health, inno­va­tion, and entre­pre­neur­ship. Out­side of work Annie loves going to the beach, sip­ping a glass of wine, and spend­ing time with her very cute cavoo­dle, Scooby.

Paul Williams

Con­sumer and Com­mu­ni­ty Lead

Paul Williams joins The CEIH as our new Com­mu­ni­ty and Con­sumer Lead. 

Orig­i­nal­ly from The UK, Paul has lived in South Aus­tralia for the last 15 years and has served Australia’s Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment as an Employ­ment Facil­i­ta­tor in the face of the COVID19 pan­dem­ic by tai­lor­ing approach­es to accel­er­ate reskilling, upskilling, and employment. 

As the Chair of ​‘The Local Jobs Pro­gram — Jobs and Skills Task­force’ Paul, along with a team of experts, devel­oped a ​‘Local Jobs Plan’ which iden­ti­fied work­force needs, job seek­er sup­port and place-based priorities.

His­tor­i­cal­ly, Paul has served The British Car­diac Patients Asso­ci­a­tion as Vice Chair­men to ensure the patient and car­er voice was con­sid­ered when gov­ern­ments and health net­works need­ed to imple­ment change espe­cial­ly when faced with crit­i­cal issues and evi­dence-based programs. 

Paul has sup­port­ed UK cen­tral and devolved gov­ern­ments espe­cial­ly in the design and deliv­ery of Nation­al Ser­vice Frame­works (NSF’s) with the first of these relat­ing to Car­diac Care and lat­er oth­er chron­ic dis­eases such as Dia­betes and Can­cer. These NSF’s iden­ti­fied long term strate­gies for improv­ing spe­cif­ic areas of care. They set nation­al stan­dards, iden­ti­fied key inter­ven­tions, and put in place agreed time scales for implementation.

Paul also cou­pled his qual­i­fi­ca­tions in com­put­er sci­ence and project man­age­ment in 2003 to help cre­ate a proof of con­cept for the Sin­gle Inte­grat­ed Health­care Record, the pre­cur­sor to today’s Local Health and Care Records deliv­ered by the NHS.

Pauls inter­est in health­care stems from his lived expe­ri­ence with Ray, his Dad, who suf­fered from Coro­nary Heart Dis­ease and was the first Patient in The UK to ben­e­fit from and Implantable Car­diac Defib­ril­la­tor and also his Sis­ter Kay who died sud­den­ly aged 34 after being undi­ag­nosed with Pul­monary Hyper­ten­sion.
More recent­ly Paul has been work­ing with fam­i­ly NDIS recip­i­ents and in the UK spe­cial­ist Demen­tia care providers.

Isla Woidt

Manager, Workplace Wellbeing Partnerships

Isla is a work­place health and well­be­ing spe­cial­ist with near­ly 20 years of expe­ri­ence dri­ving change across pub­lic, pri­vate, and non­prof­it sec­tors. With qual­i­fi­ca­tions in pub­lic health, health pro­mo­tion, and busi­ness man­age­ment, she’s pas­sion­ate about cre­at­ing strate­gies that enhance health, safe­ty, and well­be­ing out­comes. Isla played a key role in shap­ing South Australia’s Healthy Work­place Strat­e­gy and estab­lish­ing the SA Col­lab­o­ra­tive Part­ner­ship for Work­place Health and Well­be­ing. Out­side of work, she loves trav­el and beach days with her hus­band, two kids, and their dog, Ella.

Zac

I am a young and active health con­sumer advo­cate and rep­re­sen­ta­tive with a CALD back­ground, who has par­tic­i­pat­ed in a vari­ety of health-relat­ed projects con­duct­ed by gov­ern­ment author­i­ties, uni­ver­si­ties, and NGOs. In recog­ni­tion of my vol­un­teer­ing effort to date, I have received var­i­ous acco­lades high­lights of which include being the win­ner of the Glob­al Youth Parliament’s Glob­al Youth Lead­er­ship Award 2022 in Aus­tralia, the rights activism cat­e­go­ry of the Dis­abil­i­ty Lead­er­ship Insti­tute’s Nation­al Awards for Dis­abil­i­ty Lead­er­ship 2022.