AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL HEALTH AGENCY - Key Persons
Amanda Cattermole is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, a role she commenced in September 2020.
Prior to this Amanda was the Chief Operating Officer at Services Australia (formerly the Department of Human Services). Amanda served as interim Chief Executive Officer during the 2019/20 bushfires season.
Amanda held several other senior roles at Services Australia, including an extended period as Deputy Secretary, Health and Aged Care, responsible for the delivery of more than $60 billion in annual payments and services to Australians under Medicare, the PBS and in the aged care sector.
Amanda has also held senior roles in the Commonwealth Departments of Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Western Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs.
In her earlier career Amanda worked as a lawyer in Victoria, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Amanda holds a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Commerce, a Master of Laws and a Master of Business Administration.
Amanda received the Public Service Medal for outstanding public service leading reform in providing housing for Indigenous people in remote communities and the National Gambling Reform laws.
Barry is a tech entrepreneur, software engineer, physiotherapist, educator, and advisor. He has a strong interest in emerging digital health technologies that improve clinician productivity, patient engagement and outcomes, and mid-career accelerated learning and digital upskilling.
Barry is currently an online facilitator at RMIT Online for the academic units: MEDS2198 Digital Health Enablers and Technology and BUSM2537 Strategy, Design and Change Management in Digital Health.
Barry is a co-founder and CEO of HealthAide, a self-funded health tech startup. HealthAide was a graduate of the 2022 ASTN-GSIC Pre-Accelerator, 2017 MAP Velocity Program (University of Melbourne) and Melbourne Health Accelerator (Royal Melbourne Hospital). HealthAide currently serves over 340,000 patients via its e-mail newsletter product for GP practices, and is currently building a learning management system, addressing mental and physical health performance,, produced by verified health experts. HealthAide was featured in the leading Australian health IT publication Pulse+IT.
He has served as an advisor to a large range of organisations locally and globally (including USA, Germany and Vietnam) ranging from high growth startups, peak bodies, universities, government, master franchises, non-for-profits to ASX-listed companies including Telstra Health. Venture funded health tech startups have included HealthEngine (Perth, Australia), Fruit Street Health (New York City, USA), PtEverywhere (Raleigh, North Carolina) and BlueJay Mobile Health (San Francisco Bay Area, California).
Dr Amandeep Hansra is a leader in digital health and innovation in Australia. She is a GP with 18 years' clinical experience but is also known for her work as a digital health consultant, entrepreneur and investor. She has been a Digital Health Adviser with the Australian Digital Health Agency for five years. She is currently a Principal at Main Sequence Ventures who manage the CSIRO Innovation Funds.
Amandeep was the CEO & Medical Director of Telstra's telemedicine business ReadyCare; a joint venture between Telstra and Medgate, (Switzerland's leading telemedicine provider), until the end of 2017. She also served as the Chief Medical Officer for Telstra Health and separately was involved in setting up a telemedicine business in the Philippines.
Amandeep is also the NSW clinical lead for the Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (AUSCEP).
She was a co-founder of Australian Medical Angels, one of the world's largest syndicate of angels in the medical space and founder of the organisation, Creative Careers in Medicine which has 18,000 members.
She has a Bachelor of Medicine (honours) from the University of Newcastle, a Global Executive MBA from the University of Sydney, a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University, the Australia Certificate in Civil Aviation Medicine, is a Certified Health Informatician of Australia and has completed the Company Directors Course through the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health at the University of Sydney.
Amandeep's past career has included public, volunteer and private work in primary care and in hospitals, as well as in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Homeless Health, Refugee Health, Occupational Medicine and Travel Medicine.
She is a Fellow of the RACGP & Australian Institute of Digital Health, an examiner for the College and sits on their Practice Management and Technology Expert Committee, as well as the Australian Medical Association (AMA) NSW Council.
She is a Board Director of AMA NSW, MoleMap Au/NZ, ACHS International and Chairperson of Coviu Global.
Amandeep is passionate about innovation in the health sector, supporting entrepreneurship and creating companies that can change the world.
She continues to work in clinical medicine at a General Practice in Bondi, Sydney, where she lives with her family including two teenage children.
Dr Amy Nguyen is a digital health researcher whose research focuses on implementation of various health technologies in the aged care, general practice and chronic disease sectors. Dr Nguyen leads work focusing on the co-design, usability, feasibility and quality of health technologies in the delivery of safe healthcare, using a myriad of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Dr Amy Nguyen runs a research program examining how the application of health technologies can improve management and monitoring in health and aged care.
Dr Nguyen has extensive research experience in the iterative development, implementation and evaluation of a range of digital health technologies. These include My Health Record, secure messaging, mobile health apps for chronic disease, prescribing software for use in hospitals and by GPs, electronic clinical dashboards in aged care, and telehealth in general practice and specialist care.
As evidence of her expertise in digital health, Dr Nguyen is an Associate Editor for the journals, ‘BMC Digital Health' and ‘BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making'.
A large focus of Dr Nguyen's work is extensive co-design with end-users of digital health technologies. She currently leads the qualitative arm of the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research's Aged Care research team. This research team collects and synthesises extensive feedback from end-users to iteratively develop a variety of health technologies. Her work demonstrates the importance of including stakeholders in development phases to produce outputs that are relevant and feasible to end-users. Dr Nguyen's research engagement focuses on ensuring the accurate capture and defining of the digital health needs of prospective end-users.
End-users engaged in Dr Nguyen's research include patients, aged care residents and clients, general health consumers, aged care staff, aged care management, and clinicians (allied health - pharmacists, dietitians; nurses; GPs; specialists). Methods of engagement with end-users Amy employs include qualitative interviews, surveys, focus groups, case scenarios, workshops, stakeholder forums and public forums.
In relation to Dr Nguyen's research, she has been interviewed by media outlets and podcasts and written for online media. Amy also has a keen interest in effective scientific communication, and has been an active STEM Mentor for The New York Academy of Sciences since 2016.
Dr Becky White is a digital health, infodemic management and public health consultant. She is also a public health researcher with over 15 years of experience. As Director of Reach Health Promotion Innovations, she works with public health service providers, NGOs, universities and research institutes, both in Australia and internationally, to plan, develop and evaluate digital health initiatives. In this capacity she has worked with the World Health Organization, the Telethon Kids Institute, Foodbank, the Australian Breastfeeding Association, Richmond Wellbeing, Ruah Community Services, and a number of universities across Australia. She has been involved in the development of a large number of mobile apps for health, in digital health strategy development, leading co-design projects and research in areas such as digital engagement, gamification and social listening.
Becky has a PhD in Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in International Health. She holds an adjunct academic position at Curtin University where she is actively involved in digital health projects, including social listening and mobile app research, and supervision. She publishes work in peer-reviewed journals and is able to develop robust evaluation and project plans. A confident public speaker, Becky regularly presents at conferences, workshops and seminars.
Becky has specific skills and expertise in the following areas: Infodemic management, digital social listening, social media analysis, project management, health promotion, user-engagement and consultation, behavioural strategy design and testing, ideation and scoping, gamification and engagement, quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis, user acceptance testing, evaluation planning and implementation, user analytics frameworks and reporting, and report writing and synthesis. She has been involved in global social listening and infodemic management as part of the COVID-19 response.
Reaching people with interventions and digital health solutions in ways that are appropriate, equitable and of least burden for the participant is important. Becky deeply believes in user consultation, co-design and grounding projects in a wider context based on the social determinants of health. She is interested in issues of digital inclusion, sustainability and translation in a digital health context.
Further information about Becky and her work at Reach Health Promotion Innovations is available at www.rhpi.com.au.
Job Titles:
- CEO of the Australian Medical Association Western Australia
Dr Bennie Ng is the CEO of the Australian Medical Association Western Australia (AMA WA). He commenced as a general practitioner before becoming immersed in health policy and management.
Dr Ng has extensive experience in providing advice to the Australian Government having been the Head of Social Policy at the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibilities across health and hospitals, aged care, disabilities and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. He has held senior positions in strategy, services planning and general management across public and private hospital sectors, including the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Healthscope Limited and the Hong Kong public hospital authority.
Dr Ng has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and a Master of Business Administration. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (FRACMA) and of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) as well as a Council member of the National Library of Australia.
Dr Chris Moy is a full-time General Practitioner from Adelaide. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1991 and he has worked in general practice for over 30 years. His specific interests include aged care, palliative care and health communication systems.
Chris recently completed a role as Federal AMA Vice-President and, prior to this, was Chair of the Federal AMA Ethics and Medico-legal Committee for 4 years. He is a past Chair of the Federal AMA Medical Practice Committee and he also recently completed a term as AMA South Australia President.
He has participated in many initiatives related to aged and end-of-life care including the Expert Advisory Panel of the SA Advance Directives Review and the SA Health End of Life Decision Making Project - with the latter developing the Resuscitation Plan-7 Step Pathway which is the standardised end of life clinical plan used across South Australia.
The key aspiration of making a patient's Advance Care Directive available alongside their health information at the point of care led Chris to significant involvement in the development of digital health in Australia and, in particular, the My Health Record, telehealth and electronic prescribing. He is a former member of the Independent Advisory Committee to the Minister of Health for the Patient Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR), the NEHTA Clinical Usability Program Steering Committee, the My Health Record Operations Management Committee and the My Health Record Expansion Program Steering Group which led the My Health Record into the Opt-Out era. He has been a Senior Clinical Reference Lead of the Australian Digital Health Agency and remains a member of its Privacy and Security Advisory Committee.
As a former Chair of the Adelaide PHN Central Adelaide Clinical Council and as a GP Clinical Editor for Health Pathways SA, Chris has also had significant experience in policies and practices related to health translation.
His knowledge of health systems, ethics and how health policy intersects with politics became important in his recent leadership roles where he was thrust into central policy, political and media roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time during which digital health tools such as My Health Record, telehealth and electronic prescribing came into their own and became critical.
His wife, Monika, also works in general practice, and they have two children. Away from work, Chris enjoys Adelaide Crows-specific AFL and, more tellingly for his generation, Xbox games.
Job Titles:
- Public Health Physician and General Practitioner
Danielle Esler is a public health physician and general practitioner.
She is currently the Deputy Chief Health Officer of the Northern Territory. She is also the Director of the Northern Territory Public Health Directorate - providing public health and policy leadership for the Northern Territory Department of Health.
She has a longstanding career emphasis on rural and remote health including Aboriginal Health.
Dr Esler has a strong health systems focus and understanding of both broad population health and targeted approaches for special groups. She is an advocate for appropriate governance within health systems.
Dr Danielle McMullen is an experienced health leader with a sound understanding of the health system across primary care and hospital systems, both public and private. She is a practicing GP, with particular interest in women's and children's health.
Dr McMullen has extensive medical advocacy experience as the current Vice President of the Australian Medical Association, and immediate past president of AMA NSW during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has represented the AMA on the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce, and has experience providing advice to Government through TGA committees and the Mental Health Reform Advisory Committee. She brings strong skills in leadership, governance, media, stakeholder engagement & teamwork.
Dr McMullen is passionate about building a better-connected healthcare system for the benefit of patients and healthcare providers.
Dr Margelis has qualifications in medicine, optometry and E-Business. He has been involved in health care delivery for almost 40 years as a practitioner, administrator, executive and solution provider.
Originally qualified as an optometrist he went back to complete an MBBS at the University of Sydney. He also spent many years working in the IT industry in health related roles including as medical lead for Intel in Australia.
He has presented at national and international conferences, as well he has visited digital health-related facilities around the world, including Europe, Asia, the USA and the Middle East.
He has been chair of the Asia Pacific affiliate of the Continua Alliance, a global collaboration on shareable medical technology standards as well an active proponent of the use of standards in digital health.
He is currently chair of the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council, as well as the Australian ambassador for the European Connected Health Alliance.
Dr Margelis brings a long history of actively being involved in digital health projects in a number of roles and a sense of reality around the factors leading to success and failure. He is a strong proponent of the need for digital solutions to provide value to patients, providers and payers alike.
Helen is a proactive healthcare leader with a broad knowledge. She is imaginative and adaptable. Helen has aptitude and capability to provide strategic and operational contributions to health and care service and information development in order to offer the highest level in health and care leadership, academic scholarship, and research.
Helen has over 40 years of experience as a registered nurse and sick children's nurse. She has a PhD in Digital Health and Informatics, and an MSc in Clinical Nursing (Nurse Practitioner UK). She currently works as a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator Graduate Certificate Health Service Management (Safety and Quality) with the Australian Institute of Health Service Management at the University of Tasmania's. Helen also holds an adjunct research position at Swinburne University of Technology. As an experienced Digital Health Adviser, Helen sits on Clinical Governance committee, contributes to the Australian Digital Health Agency Framework for Delivery, represents the Agency on national steering groups, and is frequently relied upon to convey the Agency's work to a varied group of stakeholders.
Louise's / Dr Teo's career has spanned across a broad range of clinical specialties, starting from Physician Training in Melbourne to working across over 30 hospitals and clinics in the public and private sectors across metropolitan and rural Australia. This evolved in parallel with her growing passion for Digital Health, inspired by her experiences from clinical and non-clinical worlds, which led to the creation of her blog, The Medical Startup, an inspiration and education platform for merging digital health and creativity in medicine. This journey led to Louise consulting for digital health startups and speaking at national events on digital health, telehealth and innovation.
Louise is passionate about advancing equality in healthcare and improving access to quality healthcare services, particularly for disadvantaged communities. She was a former Senior Medical Officer for Breast Screen Queensland and currently works as a Clinical Panellist and locum doctor across Australia. Louise is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) and Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) and is a member of the Australasian Institute for Digital Health.
Job Titles:
- Board Member for Health Support Services
Dr Rowan Ellis is an Anaesthetic Registrar from Western Australia. Rowan started his medical career as an Intern at Fiona Stanley Hospital in 2015 and has since worked across the WA metropolitan area. He is a passionate advocate of the clinical user experience, and has worked closely on a variety of projects to make improvements to key clinical applications.
Previously as a Clinical Reference Lead and now as a Digital Health Adviser, Rowan has been working with the Australian Digital Health Agency since 2018. He has contributed on a diverse range of areas including medication prescribing and safety, goals of care documentation, and user interface design.
Rowan is a Board Member for Health Support Services, the shared services organisation providing ICT, Payroll, Procurement and other services to the WA health system.
Rowan is contributing to development of digital health career pathways for clinicians as a member of the Australian Institute of Digital Health's Expert Advisory Group on Advancing the Digital Health Workforce.
Sharmila is a regional GP who works in general practice as well as in a Pre-admission clinic. With 11 years of experience of working in the Local Regional Hospital Emergency Department as a GP she has seen the value of digital health on a daily basis and is an advocate of driving change for patients with chronic and complex conditions. She has over 14 years of experience working in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisation. She also has an interest and expertise in informatics, clinical coding, the e-health agenda as a supportive tool in health, is a member of the British Computer Society, and past AMAQ North Queensland Rep.
Job Titles:
- Deputy - Chair of the RACGP Expert Committee
- Vice - President of Rail Trails Australia
Dr Steven Kaye graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne and, after initially following a career in Emergency Medicine, established himself as a General Practitioner/Practice Owner over 25 years ago. He has broad interests in all facets of Primary Care but particularly in diabetes, men's health, cardiovascular disease including hypertension, occupational injuries and seniors health care. Steven is a Railway Authorised Health Practitioner (AHP).
Steven has been actively involved in medical education as a registrar supervisor & fellowship examiner for the RACGP. He was on the board and then chair of Bayside GP Network and deputy-chair Bayside Medicare Local. He has completed his AICD training.
Steven is currently the deputy-chair of the RACGP Expert Committee - eHealth and Practice Management and recently participated in the inaugural RACGP Mentors program. Steven has filled many advisory roles for the RACGP and ADHA including the ACDAG (Aged Care Digital Advisory Group), NCC (National Certificate of Capacity) with ComCare, Shaping a Healthy Australia and eNRMC communication framework. Steven has been a CRL (Clinical Reference Lead) and is now a Digital Health Advisor for the ADHA.
Steven is also the Vice-President of Rail Trails Australia, is married with 3 adult children, all of whom enjoy cycling, railways and supporting the Collingwood Football Club.
Job Titles:
- CEO of Independent Community Living Australia
William (Bill) Campos is the CEO of Independent Community Living Australia (ICLA). ICLA is a not for profit organization based in Sydney supporting people with complex mental health and psychosocial disability across 3 key sectors, Disability, Health and Housing.
William is a strong and passionate advocate for people, and their families, who experience mental health conditions. In 2020 he was appointed Mental Health consultant at NSW Health to develop COVID responses for multicultural communities and in 2023 has been appointed as Community Advisor to the NSW mental health commission and NSW Mental health minister.
Job Titles:
- CEO of MSIA Ltd
- CEO of the Medical Software Industry Association
Ms Emma Hossack is the CEO of the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA Ltd). She is also a council member of the National Aged Care Advisory Council, the Connected Care Council, and a Director of the University of Melbourne Law School Foundation Board.
Prior to becoming CEO of MSIA Ltd, Ms Hossack was the CEO of several software companies, a commercial lawyer and a Board member of several not-for-profit and advisory committees focused on healthcare improvement and privacy, including being President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals ANZ. She holds a BA (Hons), LLB and LLM. In 2021, Ms Hossack was awarded a Telstra Health Brilliant Women in Digital Health inaugural award.