Our team

Caroline Bartle

Implementation Manager, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Car­o­line has worked with­in SA Health as a Clin­i­cal Dietit­ian and for the Sun­rise EMR Project, giv­ing her unique per­spec­tives on patient-cen­tred care, stake­hold­er engage­ment and change man­age­ment. She has post-grad­u­ate qual­i­fi­ca­tions in Health Eco­nom­ics and Pub­lic Health. Car­o­line is pas­sion­ate about health equal­i­ty, heavy met­al and the poet­ry of the Wu Tang Clan. On the week­end, Car­o­line loves noth­ing more than cook­ing a roast, hav­ing a glass of red and argu­ing about cur­rent events with her friends and family.

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.

Katie Billing

Executive Director Consumer and Clinical Partnerships

Katie has worked in the health sec­tor in SA for over 20 years as a nurse in ED, gen­er­al areas and aged care. She has also worked in clin­i­cal lead­er­ship and led major sys­tem change includ­ing hos­pi­tal rede­vel­op­ment and eMR projects. Her pas­sions include well designed process­es, good gov­er­nance, build­ing equi­ty into the sys­tem, wine and choco­late, but she will def­i­nite­ly take a pass on liquorice.

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.

Marc Currie

Implementation Manager, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Marc has expe­ri­ence as a Gen­er­al and Men­tal Health Nurse in clin­i­cal, qual­i­ty and man­age­ment posi­tions. He has been exten­sive­ly involved in the imple­men­ta­tion and ongo­ing devel­op­ment of clin­i­cal infor­ma­tion sys­tems, out­come mea­sures, ana­lyt­ics and sys­tem / ser­vice inte­gra­tion for men­tal health over the past 20 years and was the SA juris­dic­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Men­tal Health Infor­ma­tion strat­e­gy for the past 9. Marc is look­ing for­ward to focus­ing on the con­sumer voice as part of the PRMs pro­gram. Marc has been to Japan more times than he can count and is still seek­ing to craft the per­fect ricot­ta salata.

Lou 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.

Anthea Hamilton

Implementation Manager, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Anthea’s 15 years in the health sec­tor has includ­ed man­ag­ing a state-wide clin­i­cal net­work, and she has par­tic­u­lar­ly enjoyed work­ing with clin­i­cians and con­sumers in lead­ing ser­vice improve­ment projects and see­ing the results of this work. In a pre­vi­ous life Anthea was a con­cert event man­ag­er (there are some amus­ing sto­ries!), but her favourite events these days are vis­it­ing our hills wineries.

Tina Hardin

Executive Director, Clinical Informatics

Tina Hardin has worked for almost 20 years as a future think­ing data ana­lyst with a pas­sion for using data and tech­nol­o­gy to inform excel­lence in clin­i­cal care. She has led a range of busi­ness intel­li­gence relat­ed projects and has a weak­ness for cats and lasagne, which might make her the human form of Garfield?

Skye Hayes

Implementation Manager, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Skye has spent the last two decades work­ing in pri­ma­ry health care and com­mu­ni­ty devel­op­ment roles across the pub­lic sec­tor, dri­ven by her pas­sion for con­nect­ing with peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties to improve health and lifestyle out­comes. As some­one who lives in a small coun­try town, she is acute­ly aware of the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties faced by rur­al and remote pop­u­la­tions. Giv­en the extra trav­el time under­tak­en each week as a neces­si­ty of region­al life, Skye has a long list of pod­casts she can rec­om­mend. Skye returned to the CEIH in 2023 with an enthu­si­asm for high­light­ing the con­sumer expe­ri­ence to inform health care deliv­ery. Out­side of work she loves cap­tur­ing life’s moments through pho­tog­ra­phy and enjoy­ing a good meal with loved ones. 

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.

Sravs Jonna

Senior Data Engineer and Architect

Sravs is a BI whiz with over 16 years of expe­ri­ence help­ing busi­ness­es make bet­ter deci­sions with data. Before join­ing CEIH, she was a Lead BI Devel­op­er at the Depart­ment of Infra­struc­ture and Trans­port, where she designed and built end-to-end BI solu­tions. She’s also spent the last few years work­ing on data pipelines and infra­struc­ture in the cloud.

Sravs is an expert in all aspects of the BI life­cy­cle, from strat­e­gy and plan­ning to data inte­gra­tion, mod­el­ing, ware­hous­ing, ETL, data visu­al­iza­tion, and advanced ana­lyt­ics. She’s also pas­sion­ate about data gov­er­nance and compliance.

In short, Sravs is a data rock­star. She is pas­sion­ate about util­is­ing data to help busi­ness­es make bet­ter deci­sions, and she has the skills and expe­ri­ence to do it.

Sarina Kondapuram

Program Support Officer, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Sari­na is new to health but has worked for the Depart­ment of Cor­rec­tion­al Ser­vices since 2016. She has a lot of expe­ri­ence work­ing in pri­vate sec­tor in roles such as project man­age­ment, report­ing and cus­tomer ser­vice. If she isn’t at work, then she loves to trav­el. Sari­na is also our res­i­dent office food­ie who loves cook­ing new dish­es. Any requests?

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. 

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.

Ali Mohtasham

Clinical Informatics Director

Ali is a sea­soned Data Sci­en­tist with over 20 years of expe­ri­ence in the field of busi­ness intel­li­gence, hav­ing worked in both pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors. For the last 13 years, he has been lead­ing Busi­ness Intel­li­gence teams in the health indus­try, specif­i­cal­ly in SA Ambu­lance Ser­vice and SA Den­tal. Ali holds a dou­ble degree in Com­put­er and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence and Mul­ti­me­dia Stud­ies from the Uni­ver­si­ty of South Aus­tralia, and a post­grad­u­ate degree in Data Sci­ence from Monash University.

Ali’s exper­tise spans across var­i­ous areas such as busi­ness process, SQL Serv­er inte­gra­tion ser­vices, data ware­house archi­tec­ture and devel­op­ment, Tableau, peo­ple man­age­ment, machine learn­ing, and data analy­sis. He’s a skilled pro­fes­sion­al in the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of data-dri­ven solu­tions that pro­mote health well­ness and emer­gency services.

Apart from his pro­fes­sion­al pur­suits, Ali is an avid fan of every­thing sci­ence fic­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly Frank Her­bert’s Dune series.

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.

Grace O’Donohue

Implementation Manager, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Grace has spent two decades work­ing in data and project man­age­ment roles. Grace honed her skills at the AOA Nation­al Joint Replace­ment Reg­istry, where she was respon­si­ble for broad­en­ing the reg­istries end to end project deliv­ery capa­bil­i­ty. Grace led and deliv­ered on a range of projects to imple­ment and sup­port data col­lec­tion and report­ing ini­tia­tives in hos­pi­tals at a nation­al scale. She has a pas­sion for work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with stake­hold­ers to achieve strate­gic and project objec­tives and a desire to dri­ve projects that improve patient out­comes. When she is not at work she loves being sur­round­ed by fam­i­ly (and South Aus­tralian wine!), keep­ing active and going on adven­tures with her boys.

Kym Peoples

Implementation Manager, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Kym is a Reg­is­tered Nurse with over a decade of expe­ri­ence in SA’s pub­lic health sec­tor, most recent­ly with­in SA’s Elec­tron­ic Med­ical Record Project. She has enjoyed the priv­i­lege of car­ing for adults and chil­dren when they are at their most vul­ner­a­ble, includ­ing birthing moth­ers and peo­ple at the end of their life and is pas­sion­ate about car­ing for the whole per­son – body, mind and spir­it, help­ing them to feel safe and have a voice in their care. Her expe­ri­ences in the EMR Project have equipped her with insight into how tech­nol­o­gy and data can be lever­aged to improve patient care and patient out­comes. She is also a pas­sion­ate advo­cate for the well­be­ing of the health­care work­force. Kym loves exer­cise, cook­ing and eat­ing, a good glass of wine and lis­ten­ing to the sto­ries that peo­ple choose to share.

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.

Megan Scott

Program Director, Statewide Patient Reported Measures Program

Megan has 25 years’ expe­ri­ence as a nurse in the health sec­tor, pri­mar­i­ly with­in pae­di­atrics and most recent­ly with the imple­men­ta­tion of elec­tron­ic med­ical records. Megan is pas­sion­ate about improv­ing health out­comes by focus­ing on the needs of the patient dur­ing their jour­ney. Out­side of work Megan spends her time tak­ing pho­tos under­wa­ter (don’t get her start­ed on rhinopias and nudi­branchs) and col­lect­ing cac­ti. She’s also known to bake for friends and col­leagues but only when they’re well behaved!

Annie Simpson

Innovation Support Officer

Annie is a grad­u­ate of the Bach­e­lor of Health and Med­ical Sci­ences (Advanced) from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Ade­laide with a strong focus on health­care inno­va­tion. She is pas­sion­ate about human cen­tred design and the improve­ment of patient out­comes through inno­v­a­tive clin­i­cal solu­tions. Out­side of work Annie loves all things cre­ative, rang­ing from music to archi­tec­ture and on a nice day you can usu­al­ly find her down by the beach or in any SA wine region.

Narender Singh Sharma

Business Analyst

Naren­der has worked for over 20 years, pri­mar­i­ly in the Bank­ing and Finan­cial Ser­vices indus­try. He has MBA in Finance along with LEAN and Six-Sig­ma Green Belt cer­ti­fi­ca­tions. He has also worked with a Non-Prof­it Organ­i­sa­tion as an Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er, work­ing towards alle­vi­at­ing pover­ty and edu­cat­ing under-priv­i­leged chil­dren for high­er edu­ca­tion. Naren­der has also worked with Cen­tral Ade­laide Local Health Net­work (CAL­HN) to deliv­er crit­i­cal dig­i­tal health projects, deliv­er­ing a new Meals Man­age­ment Sys­tem for TQEH, an Inte­grat­ed Pros­the­ses Implant Data Man­age­ment Sys­tem, Dig­i­tal Patient Path­ways capa­bil­i­ties across CAL­HN, and Med­ical Stats Mea­sure­ment Devices.

Naren­der brings a 360-degree view to busi­ness process­es and has man­aged process­es, peo­ple and num­bers alike. He’s focused on deliv­er­ing val­ue through his projects by reduc­ing costs, improv­ing rev­enue out­comes and cre­at­ing greater val­ue for cus­tomers. Out­side of work Naren­der likes to play ten­nis, go for hikes, explor­ing new places and meet­ing peo­ple from var­ied back­grounds. He loves dri­ving around and cook­ing Indi­an Spiced Cur­ries spe­cial­ly Suc­cu­lent Air-Fried Masala Drumsticks.

Bianca Srpek

Executive 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.

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. 

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. 

Emma Tolson

Networks Program Support Officer

Emma is rel­a­tive­ly new in her career start­ing with SA Health in 2017 after com­plet­ing a Bach­e­lor of Health Sci­ences. She is pas­sion­ate about pub­lic health and work­ing in part­ner­ship to help improve health out­comes for all. Out­side of work you’ll find Emma at the beach dur­ing sum­mer, try­ing out new recipes in the kitchen, or tast­ing many of the fab­u­lous wines in South Australia!

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. 

Kate Turpin

Kate is a Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er who has pri­mar­i­ly worked in pae­di­atric haematology/​oncology. Kate has worked in a vari­ety of clin­i­cal man­age­ment and lead­er­ship roles and been involved in and led statewide and nation­al projects includ­ing the devel­op­ment of can­cer care plans, ser­vice capa­bil­i­ty frame­works, pol­i­cy and pro­ce­dures, and as a mem­ber of uni­ver­si­ty advi­so­ry boards. She has a pas­sion for pae­di­atrics and patient and fam­i­ly cen­tred care and has engaged and worked col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with con­sumers and car­ers on deliv­er­ing mul­ti­ple prac­tice improve­ments and ini­tia­tives. When she is not work­ing Kate enjoys spend­ing time with her fam­i­ly & friends, trav­el­ling, cook­ing and relax­ing at the end of the day with a nice meal and a glass of wine (when the kids permit). 

Joanna Vlachos

Assistant Project Officer

Joan­na has more than a decade expe­ri­ence at SA Health work­ing in project sup­port roles with clin­i­cians and con­sumers in a vari­ety of areas. She is dri­ven by her pas­sion to improve the health and well­be­ing of oth­ers to con­tribute to ser­vice improve­ment projects. She also has a degree in Social Sci­ence and has a pas­sion for improv­ing men­tal health out­comes. Out­side of work she enjoys spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and friends over some good food and a G&T.

Isla Woidt

Strategic Lead, Worker Wellbeing

Isla has worked in health pro­mo­tion and pre­ven­tion for over 15 years across the pub­lic, pri­vate and non-for-prof­it sec­tors. With a strong back­ground in work­place health and well­be­ing, Isla thrives on work­ing in part­ner­ship to dri­ve sys­tem change and achieve improved health, well­be­ing and safe­ty out­comes. She has been involved in the design and imple­men­ta­tion of large scale work­place health ini­tia­tives, includ­ing lead­ing the devel­op­ment of a state-wide strat­e­gy to sup­port the cre­ation of healthy, safe and thriv­ing work­places in South Aus­tralia. Out­side of work, Isla can be found at the beach with her hus­band, kids and dog in tow.