I am an AFRACMA awarded 2018. I am a Geriatrician, Divisional Medical Director and Director of Geriatric Medicine at Austin Health, a Melbourne University teaching hospital. I have a broad range of management, public policy, research, and clinical experience in both hospital based and community based care and have been on multiple state based and national boards and committees in all roles including governance for 30 years. Career highlights include interim Chief Clinical Advisor to the first Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner from inception and the Geriatrician appointed to the Covid Residential Aged Care response – Victorian Aged Care Response Centre (VACRC). I am a member of the Aged Care Advisory group to AHPPC since its inception and more recently appointed as member of the National Aged Care Advisory Council. I am the President of the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) and Immediate Past President of the Continence Foundation of Australia.
Professional Qualifications
• M.B. B.S. Monash University, Dec 1985
• FRACP Dec 1992
• Master Public Health, Monash University 2005 (Health Services Management)
• AFRACMA 2018
• Clinical Associate Professor, Melbourne University 2008-
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, Latrobe University 2006-
• Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame 2009-2014
Conferred qualifications:
• Fellow of Australian Association of Gerontology (FAAG) 2001
• Fellow of Australian & New Zealand Association of Geriatric Medicine 2009
Previous Governance Experience / Board Appointments
• National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) 2010-
– President 2014
– Board of Governance 2010-
• BENETAS
– Chairperson Quality and Compliance Committee 2024-
– Board member including Quality and compliance committee 2016-
• Continence Foundation of Australia
– National President 2014-2022
– Board of Governance 2000-2022
• Australian Association of Gerontology (Vic branch) Board member 1993-2015
• Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care ACEBAC (Latrobe University) Board member 2002-2010
College Related and/or Other Professional Activities (Past and Present)
• Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) Board Director 2004-2016
– Chairperson, Clinical Governance Committee 2005-2013
• Lynden Aged Care Association, Board of Governance 1993-ongoing
• Interim Chief Clinical Advisor, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission 2018/19
• National Aged Care Advisory Council (NACAC) 2021-ongoing
• AHPPC Aged Care Advisory Group 2020-ongoing
• Aged Care Advisory Group & Infection Control Expert Group Joint Working Group 2020-2021
• Victorian Stroke Clinical Network Leadership Group 2016-2017
• Victorian ACAS & Sub-acute Transition Working Group 2015-2019
• Melbourne Ageing Research Collaborative (MARC) Chairperson 2014-2019