Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Leadership

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.

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.

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.