Caroline Bartle

Implementation Manager, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tanya Davey

Business Support Officer

Tanya has had a diverse pro­fes­sion­al back­ground, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly worked for the Depart­ment for Child Pro­tec­tion in admin­is­tra­tive roles, both at a region­al office and in their Work Health and Safe­ty depart­ment. Pri­or to this, she worked in the pri­vate sec­tor, main­ly in cus­tomer ser­vice roles. Tanya also has qual­i­fi­ca­tions in tourism and psy­chol­o­gy! In her spare time, she enjoys trav­el­ling (has so far vis­it­ed almost 20 coun­tries), wine tast­ing, and exercise. 

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

Project Manager

Skye has spent the last two decades work­ing on a vari­ety of projects with­in the Gov­ern­ment of South Aus­tralia, dri­ven by her pas­sion for con­nect­ing with peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties to improve lifestyle and health out­comes. Skye made the move to CEIH in 2022 with an enthu­si­asm for explor­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties to improve pub­lic health. Out­side of work she loves cap­tur­ing life’s moments through pho­tog­ra­phy and cook­ing for fam­i­ly and friends.

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.

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. 

Nadia Mastersson

Director, Partnerships Program

Work­ing with diverse organ­i­sa­tions across sec­tors, Nadia is proud to have been part of many incred­i­ble part­ner­ships that have made a real dif­fer­ence to the health of South Aus­tralians. With back­grounds in pop­u­la­tion health and clin­i­cal dietet­ics, Nadia has almost 25 years’ expe­ri­ence of work­ing in mul­ti-sec­tor part­ner­ships to improve health. She is ener­gised by find­ing those strate­gic oppor­tu­ni­ties to work dif­fer­ent­ly. Dri­ven by a desire to apply the best of busi­ness approach­es to gov­ern­ment, Nadia has almost com­plet­ed a Mas­ter of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion. When she gets her spare time back, Nadia is look­ing for­ward to read­ing for fun again!

Kirby McDonald

Stakeholder/Engagement and Communications Lead

Kir­by has over 10 years expe­ri­ence in the Ade­laide media and com­mu­ni­ca­tions indus­try, includ­ing sev­er­al years work­ing with the Gov­ern­ment of South Aus­tralia and SA Health, in lead­er­ship roles. She made the move to the CEIH in 2021 as she is pas­sion­ate about using her skills to help com­mu­ni­cate the improve­ments and inno­va­tion occur­ring in the South Aus­tralian health sec­tor. In her per­son­al time she loves to cook and vis­it the dog park with her Labrador, Murphy. 

Grace O’Donohue

Implementation Manager, 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.

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 for the past eight with SA Health. It makes him excep­tion­al at think­ing about the data you need now and what you might need in the future. Petr loves using tech­nol­o­gy to solve com­plex prob­lems and increase effi­cien­cy. He is a pas­sion­ate pho­tog­ra­ph­er, and trav­els for travel’s sake, for the change that goes on in the ideas of living. 

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.

Heather Pile

Implementation Manager, Patient Reported Measures Program

Heather has a diverse pro­fes­sion­al and cor­po­rate nurs­ing career work­ing in SA Health and non-gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tions. She prides her­self on build­ing rela­tion­ships with stake­hold­ers and tak­ing on strate­gic and oper­a­tional chal­lenges to deliv­er effec­tive out­comes, includ­ing State-wide chemother­a­py edu­ca­tion pro­gram and elec­tron­ic med­ical record (EMR). Heather has con­tributed and con­tin­ues to sup­port health changes in improve­ment and change man­age­ment with­in clin­i­cal set­ting, and more recent­ly in the field of oncol­o­gy, aged care and being an oenophile.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

Amelia Williams

Implementation Manager, Patient Reported Measures Program

Amelia start­ed her career in health­care work­ing as a hos­pi­tal phar­ma­cist. More recent­ly she has worked in the dig­i­tal health set­ting through the devel­op­ment, imple­men­ta­tion and opti­mi­sa­tion of an elec­tron­ic med­ical record sys­tem. She loves work­ing across con­sumer, clin­i­cian, and tech­ni­cal groups to iden­ti­fy issues, bridge gaps, and deliv­er out­come-focused solu­tions. Out­side of work you will find Amelia exper­i­ment­ing with the laws of physics on var­i­ous aer­i­al apparatus.

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.

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