Katerina Andronis HISA Chair

Katerina is currently working as a Director, Consulting in Life Sciences and Health Care, Deloitte in Melbourne Katerina has contributed her expertise to leading organisations as an industry advisor and consultant in the development and delivery of multi-million dollar and leading edge business and process initiatives. Katerina's experience extends across IT, Patient and Clinical Management, Research and developing road maps for innovative organisational change.

She utilises a whole of business focus to analyse short, medium and long term healthcare strategies. She is able to identify business and clinical processes, evaluate the core priorities of the organisation, and develop an implementation strategy all based on present and future technologies which support and enables the business.

Katerina is widely respected for the breadth and depth of her knowledge of best business practice and information management in healthcare. She is an industry advisor, consultant, analyst and manager. She facilitates cooperation and collaboration, has an impressive global network of resources, and incorporates people development and succession planning in all of her activities.

Experience: Katerina has over 30 years experience in health informatics. She has worked in the public and private sector as CIO, Consultant, and Change Manager. Some of her clients have been Health Departments, hospitals, general practice, aged care and pathology.

Special responsibilities: Member HIC 2013 Strategic Advisory Committee, Member HISA Victorian Branch Committee

Jon Hilton HISA Vice Chair

Jon supports a whole of health approach to the use of information in promotion, prevention, education and planned intervention, and works with people to demonstrate that ICT can assist in engaging clients with their own care and enabling providers to support them. He is also working on ICT solutions that will enable funders to assure value for money with minimal interference in service delivery.

Experience: Jon has 20 years in health infomatics and 10 years experience independent consulting to private and public healthcare organisations. Clients include General Practitioners, most Melbourne Metropolitan Health Services and Community Health Centres.

Other Directorships held: Director, Centred Care Pty Ltd., Board Member, Uniting Care Community Options, Victoria

Dr David Hansen HISA Secretary

David Hansen is CEO of the Australian E-Health Research Centre, a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government . David leads a research portfolio developing information and communication technologies for the healthcare system. These include projects for resource planning, biomedical imaging, mobile and tele-health and technologies that will underpin the e-health architecture in Australia.

Prior to joining CSIRO, David worked for LION bioscience Ltd in the UK, developing genomic data and tool integration software that was used to publish the first human genome and is now used at over 200 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and research institutes world wide.

Special responsibilities: Member HIC 2013 Strategic Advisory Committee

Philip Robinson HISA Treasurer

Philip is a committed health informatician with over 25 years experience in the installation of information systems into healthcare organisations and in senior management as a CIO / ICT Manager. Philip is a long-term member of both HISA and the Australian Computer Society. From 2005 until 2007, Philip served as Chair of the Victorian Branch of HISA and was on the HISA Board. In 2009, he was re-elected to the Victorian Branch Executive Committee. During his absence, Philip set up a University Hospital in the UAE. Philip holds qualifications in a clinical discipline and computer science. He has served as a board-level director for hospitals, community health centres and local government and brings this experience in both governance and health informatics to the Board to ensure HISA's financial viability and enhance its status as the premier independent health informatics group in Australia.

Special responsibilities: Member HIC 2013 Strategic Advisory Committee

David Rowlands

David is the Principal of Direkt Consulting Pty Ltd, a management consultancy specialising in governance, standards, strategy and information in the health sector. He has 30 years' experience in health and information management. His senior roles in the public health sector have included health service management, service planning and performance management, strategic development, IM/IT management and corporate services. He has served on the Boards of Child Health, Aged Care and health informatics agencies. He also spent ten years with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Other Directorships held: Direkt Consulting Pty Ltd, HL7 Australia

Qualifications: B.Ec.(Hons) Economics, G.D.B.A. Business Administration, FACHI, AFACHSE

Special responsibilities: Member HIC 2013 Strategic Advisory Committee

Tamati (Tam) Shepherd

Tam Shepherd is a well-regarded professional who is considered nationally as an expert in e-health and health informatics. He has held senior roles as a consultant, board member and executive driving major state and national e-health agendas.

His background in e-health covers commonwealth and state governments, private industry and boards of professional bodies. This enables Tam to bring a holistic perspective to issues and decision making processes. He currently holds the following positions:

Prof Fernando Martin-Sanchez

Fernando was born in Madrid, Spain, where he studied Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Universidad Autonoma. He then received his M.Sc. degree in Knowledge Engineering and a PhD in Informatics from the Polytechnic University. After a postdoctoral stay at the Joint Program in Biomedical Engineering between Emory University Hospital and Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, USA, he returned to Spain and entered the National Institute of Health Carlos III. From 1993 to 1998 he was the CIO of the Institute and in 1998 became the Founding Director of the Medical Bioinformatics Research Unit. Since 2007 he is Vice-President of IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association). In 2010 he received his PhD in Medicine from the University of La Coruna (Spain).

In February 2011 he was appointed Professor and Chair of Health Informatics at the Melbourne Medical School and Head of the IBES Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Laboratory. Prof. Martin-Sanchez is co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and his research has been funded by some 25 grants from the European Commission and the Spanish Ministries of Health, Science and Defense. His research interests cover a wide range of topics related with the role of informatics in personalised medicine (genomic and nano medicine) and the convergence of Nano, Bio, Info and Cogno (NBIC) technologies for health applications.

Special responsibilities: Member of Big Data 2013 Strategic Advisory Committee

Jen Bichel-Findlay

Jen has been employed in the health service industry for over 30 years, and has been specifically working in the health informatics field for the last decade. Her 2008 Doctorate of Health Science thesis addressed the attitudes of clinicians to using an information system. She is committed to supporting major health reform through national and international innovation and e-health initiatives, and has a particular interest in both the sociotechnical issues around health information system implementation and evaluation of health information system implementation. She is a member of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, an Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Management, and a Fellow of both the Australasian College of Health Informatics and Royal College of Nursing, Australia. She is currently the Coordinator of the Performance and Outcome Service of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, which focuses on the collection, analysis, and reporting of clinical indicators for over 700 health care organisations in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.

Special responsibilities: Chair of HISA NSW Committe

Lis Herbert

Lis worked within Qld Health for 30 years, as both a clinical nurse in ICU/CCU and OT, and in the informatics arena. Her experience as a nurse informatician includes change management, project management, business analysis, district and state wide system implementations. She now works for the Gold Coast Medicare Local as a senior project officer with the eHealth team, enhancing health informatics in the primary care sector with the eHealth record system implementation.

Lis is passionate about the use of IT within all facets of health, believing it’s an invaluable tool for enhancing safe and effective health care and promoting positive patient outcomes. Lis has been a member of HISA from its inception, a member of the NIA Executive for the past 6 years, and is currently the chair of NIA.  Lis is widely respected for her depth of knowledge in informatics and passion for its use within health care at all levels.

Special responsibilities: Chair of Nursing Informatics Australia

Michael Gill

Michael brings over 30 years of experience as a senior management consultant. He has worked throughout the South Pacific, United States of America, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, The People’s Republic of China and New Zealand.

He has been heavily engaged with innovations in health planning and delivery in Australia and maintain a strong interest in the use of internet technologies in the areas of general nursing, maternity, aged care and mental health and is a recognised expert in video based telehealth services.

Denis Tebbutt

Denis entered the Computer Industry in 1972 with the BP subsidiary SCICON after a short time with Fords in new model engineering in London. The advent of this industry and the impact that it would have on the motor industry was the initial attraction but it consumed him with rapid growth and its contribution to the transformation of the manufacturing and finance industries. During the past decade he has been engaged within Australia in the challenges of the healthcare sector as a leader of two major international healthcare applications providers and during the past year as the industry advisor to NeHTA. His strategic mindset and ability to translate and communicate the operational imperatives along with the process of execution is recognized within the industry. He has contributed to the eHealth agenda with product development in Australia of successful international EHR systems and advocates industry leadership as a key stakeholder.

Special responsibilities: Member HIC 2013 Strategic Advisory Committee

Nick Buckmaster

Nick Buckmaster is a Dual trained General Physician and Respiratory Physician, with a passion for working to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care. He has had a longstanding interest in Clinical Education, effective human resource management, clinical advocacy and change management. His involvement in Health informatics stems from the recognition that health is facing an impending crisis in funding and workforce, both in Australia and internationally, and that the only solution is to improve our effectiveness and efficiency through the better use of technology. He has held many leadership roles within the medical profession at a state and federal level.