Rebecca Aisbett

Business Solutionist

Rebec­ca thrives in tak­ing the com­plex and turn­ing it into easy to under­stand, action­able and sus­tain­able solu­tions, with a focus on under­stand­ing how we can cre­ate bet­ter health out­comes togeth­er and how to get there.

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’ll def­i­nite­ly take a pass on liquorice.

Melissa Bond

Implementation Manager, Patient Reported Measures Program

Mel is a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist with a strong inter­est in qual­i­ty of life and improv­ing patient expe­ri­ence along the con­tin­u­um of care, with expe­ri­ence in the deliv­ery of clin­i­cal ser­vices in a range of set­tings, includ­ing acute care, pri­ma­ry men­tal health and reha­bil­i­ta­tion. Mel loves work­ing in part­ner­ship with peo­ple to improve health ser­vices and out­comes. She is pas­sion­ate about per­son-cen­tred care, and work­ing toward a health sys­tem that best meets the needs for con­sumers, fam­i­lies and carers.

Cathy Bradley

Executive Support Officer

A return to the place of her birth (can you guess?) and a space jump from the pri­vate world of IT to the pub­lic realm of health has pro­vid­ed Cathy with a wealth of amaz­ing sto­ries of the auda­cious, intre­pid and coura­geous. How for­tu­itous to be blessed with a desk that tra­vers­es many lay­ers? The answer to our ques­tion? Ade­laide! Tricked you. 

Prof.
Derek Chew

Commissioner

Derek Chew is a clin­i­cal and inter­ven­tion­al car­di­ol­o­gist as well as a clin­i­cal tri­al­ist and out­comes researcher in health sys­tems research, with a par­tic­u­lar inter­est in car­dio­vas­cu­lar medicine.

He has com­plet­ed a Mas­ters of Pub­lic Health at the Har­vard School of Pub­lic Health, with for­mal train­ing in epi­demi­ol­o­gy, tri­al design, bio­sta­tis­tics, clin­i­cal tri­als and cost-effec­tive­ness analysis.

His PhD the­sis explored the fac­tors for improv­ing heart attack care in Aus­tralia. He holds numer­ous NHM­RC grants explor­ing health sys­tem adap­tion in the face of cur­rent and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies in car­diac care. He has most recent­ly led the Heart and Vas­cu­lar pro­gram of the SAHM­RI and co-leads the life­long Health Theme and is the Net­work Direc­tor of Car­di­ol­o­gy for the South­ern Ade­laide Health Local Health Network.

He is also cur­rent­ly a Pro­fes­sor of Car­di­ol­o­gy at Flinders Uni­ver­si­ty. He has nation­al and inter­na­tion­al roles in chest pain/​ACS evi­dence gen­er­a­tion, assim­i­la­tion and trans­la­tion. He has led the Heart Foundation/​CSANZ ACS Guide­lines writ­ing group 2016 and served on the Euro­pean Soci­ety of Car­di­ol­o­gy Guide­lines for the man­age­ment of ACS Writ­ing com­mit­tee 2015.


In addi­tion, he chairs the Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Dis­ease Expert Advi­so­ry Group, the pri­ma­ry CV dis­ease mon­i­tor­ing body of the AIHW; while pro­vid­ing expert advice to the Aus­tralian Com­mis­sion for Qual­i­ty and Safe­ty in Health care. He has also authored over 280 man­u­scripts and book chapters.

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?

Helen Kalafatis

Executive Coordinator

Helen has been a dynam­ic SA Gov­ern­ment role mod­el since she began her for­mal work­ing life. Acquir­ing much wis­dom from the finance group, Helen brought her orga­ni­za­tion­al and exem­plary exec­u­tive gifts to SA Health. She’s a cre­ative fash­ion­ista with a gen­er­ous gift for hos­pi­tal­i­ty so be pre­pared to have your culi­nary and cul­tur­al bound­aries expanded.

Sarina Kondapuram

Program Support Officer

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. 

Jarrard O'Brien

Executive Director Human Centred Design

Jay is an anthro­pol­o­gist with a pas­sion for putting peo­ple at the heart of health design. He has worked in health for 20 years, most­ly in the UK and New Zealand, and now South Aus­tralia. Jay loves cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for peo­ple to come togeth­er and share their sto­ries, usu­al­ly over wine… so what bet­ter place to be!

Petr Pavlik

Data Engineer

Petr is a data engi­neer who defies the impos­si­ble with won­der, the greater the chal­lenge, the hap­pi­er he is. He is a big pic­ture thinker, with over a decade work­ing in enter­prise sys­tems, includ­ing Sun­rise EMR (for­mer­ly EPAS) for the past six years with SA Health. It makes him excep­tion­al at think­ing about the data you need now and what you might need in the future. He is super effi­cient, whether in his fast car to get the last box of tis­sues from the super­mar­ket, drop­ping the sec­ond e in his name or using the best tools to pro­vide inno­v­a­tive solu­tions, he is com­mit­ted to ensur­ing the best out­comes for everyone.

Kym Peoples

Implementation Manager, 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!

Saeid Sedghi

Senior Data Scientist

Saeid is a data sci­en­tist with an insa­tiable intel­lec­tu­al curios­i­ty, and the abil­i­ty to mine hid­den gems locat­ed with­in large sets of data. Able to lever­age heavy dose of sta­tis­tics and data wran­gling to devel­op mean­ing­ful visu­al­i­sa­tions and pre­dic­tive mod­els, result­ing in action­able insights for busi­ness leaders.

Mary Sladek

Project Manager

Mary has over 30 years of expe­ri­ence as a nurse and mid­wife. She enjoys being a part of the CEIH as she gets to sup­port con­sumers and clin­i­cians to make pos­i­tive changes to health. When she’s not at work, Mary loves to dis­cov­er long lost rel­a­tives using genealog­i­cal inves­ti­ga­tions and paint water­colour landscapes.

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. 

Katie Taylor

Project Manager

Katie began her careers as an urban plan­ner and has spent more than 12 years in var­i­ous gov­ern­ment roles devel­op­ing pol­i­cy, strat­e­gy, assess­ment and design of cities, build­ings and neigh­bour­hoods before mov­ing into clin­i­cal improve­ment projects. When not at work she has an inter­est in med­i­ta­tion and explor­ing nature.

Bodie Thorpe

Project Manager

Bod­ie began his health career as an Inten­sive Care Nurse which then led him to being an Organ Dona­tion Spe­cial­ist Nurse for many years. Bod­ie is a crit­i­cal thinker who strives to improve sys­tems and facil­i­tate pos­i­tive change wher­ev­er pos­si­ble. Out­side of work Bod­ie enjoys gar­den­ing, trav­el­ling and tast­ing the great wines that can be found around the Ade­laide region. 

Peter Wilkinson

Data Architect / Manager

Peter Wilkin­son is a data archi­tect, team man­ag­er, and cer­ti­fied geek who has been wran­gling data for more years then he cares to admit, includ­ing the last 14 in SA Health. He has a keen inter­est in explor­ing new meth­ods to make sense of messy infor­ma­tion sys­tems. In his spare time he pre­tends to be a com­pe­tent musician.

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