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Reference Group

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The reference group for this project brings together people with high level knowledge and expertise in health professional education and/or health informatics education, to provide advice and support for the work of the project team.

 

A profile of the reference group members is provided below.

 

Professor Geoff McColl, University of Melbourne   Geoff McColl is the Director of the Medical Education Unit in the Melbourne Medical School and Professor of Medical Education and Training at the University of Melbourne. In 2001, Geoff was appointed Clinical Dean at the Royal Melbourne Hospital/ Western Hospital Clinical School where he coordinated the development and implementation of the clinical teaching curriculum of the University of Melbourne. In addition to these University roles Geoff is a practicing rheumatologist, current President of the Australian Rheumatology Association (ARA) and a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) 
Professor Elizabeth Ozanne, University of Melbourne  Elizabeth Ozanne is associated with the Faculty of Health Sciences, Social Work at the University of Melbourne. Elizabeth’s research interests are: Gerontological Social Work, Disability Services, Human Service Management, Program Development and Evaluation, Comparative Social Work Education, Research Utilization in Human Services, Methods of Service Coordination and Integration, Case Management Aged and Disabled in Acute and Post Acute Care, Politics of Ageing Societies. 
Professor Ian Wilson, University of Wollongong

Ian Wilson has a background in general practice and extensive experience in medical education.  For the last 5½ years Ian had been the professor of Medical Education and Head of Program at the new School of Medicine at the University of Western Sydney.  He is now the Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching at the University of Wollongong. Ian has overseen the development and implementation of a new curriculum for a 5-year undergraduate school leaver program.

Professor Rhonda Griffiths, University of Western Sydney  Rhonda Griffiths AM is a registered nurse and registered midwife. Rhonda was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to public health, particularly through contributions to diabetes research and education, and to the nursing profession.  Rhonda is also Director of the New South Wales Centre for Evidence Based Heath Care (NSWCEBHC), which is the NSW Collaborative Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute. 
Professor Moyez Jiwa, Curtin University   Moyez Jiwa has substantial clinical experience in a variety of clinical settings including rural South West Scotland, rural Nottinghamshire and urban Yorkshire, UK. Moyez now practices in an area of need in outer metropolitan Perth, WA. Moyez was also the Director of the WA Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care in 2006 and is now the inaugural chair of Health Innovation (chronic diseases) at Curtin University. 
Professor James Semmens, Curtin University   James Simmens is the chair of population health research at the Health Innovation Research Institute at Curtin University. Previously, James was based in the University of Western Australia (UWA) where he held a key position as the Director of the Centre for Health Services Research in the School of Population Health from 2002 - 2007. James has established a significant academic and research career in the fields of health services research, record linkage, clinical epidemiology, cancer research, genomics, patient safety, clinical accountability and the evaluation of surgical care in Western Australia.
Professor Philip Davies, University of Queensland   Philip Davies was appointed as Professor of Health Systems and Policy in the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland in 2009. Prior to taking up his current position, Philip worked as a Deputy Secretary in the Australian (Federal) Government Department of Health and Ageing where he was responsible for several key areas of health policy and financing as well as corporate management of the Department. 
A/Prof Anthony Smith, University of Queensland   Anthony Smith is the Deputy Director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH) at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH). Anthony has a decade of research experience based on investigations of new telemedicine applications for the benefit of clinicians and patients in regional and remote areas of Queensland. Previously, Anthony has had over ten years’ clinical experience as a Registered Nurse specialising in paediatrics and child health. 
A/Prof Maree O' Keefe, University of Adelaide  Maree O’Keefe is the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Adelaide. In this position Maree provides educational leadership across a range of health discipline programs. Through her grant-funded research and scholarly activities, Maree has led paediatric medicine curriculum renewal and innovation at both local and national levels. 
Professor Alison Lee, University of Technology Sydney Alison Lee is Director of the Centre for Research in Learning and Change (CRLC) at UTS. Alison researches and teaches in higher education with a particular focus on doctoral education. Alison has been coordinator of doctoral programs in Education for the past 10 years and has published widely on doctoral supervision, research writing, practice-based research and the changing nature of the doctorate. Alison has been awarded a national citation by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) in 2008 for her contribution to development of a rich learning environment for doctoral research at UTS.
Professor Ronald Harden, University of Dundee, Scotland   Ronald Harden was formally  a clinician with a special interest in endocrinology, Teaching Dean and  the Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of  Dundee. Ronald currently holds appointments as Professor of  Medical Education at Dundee and at Al-Iman University in Saudi Arabia ,and is General Secretary of the Association for Medical Education Europe.
Professor Jim Warren, University of Auckland, New Zealand  Jim Warren holds a joint position between the Department of Computer Science and the School of Population Health in the University of Auckland. Jim is a Chief Scientist for the National Institute for Health Innovation. Jim is also the programme director for the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in Health Informatics. Jim’s research goal is to achieve measurable improvements in health outcomes through innovation in health information technology. 
Dr. Kendall Ho, University of British Columbia, Canada  Kendall Ho is a practicing emergency medicine specialist. He is the founding Director, eHealth Strategy Office, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine. He is the executive director of the Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation Investigative Centre (TEKTIC) at UBC. Kendall's academic and research interests fall into the domain of technology enabled knowledge translation (TEKT) – the use of information technologies to accelerate the incorporation of latest health evidence into routine practice. 
Dr. Harold Lehmann, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics Harold Lehmann, MD PhD, is a board-certified general pediatrician with doctoral training in medical computer science. Harold received his MD from Columbia University, pediatric residency from Babies Hospital, general pediatric fellowship from Johns Hopkins, and informatics doctorate at Stanford, under Ted Shortliffe. Harold's research areas have focused on the overlaps among evidence-based medicine, decision modeling, and informatics, primarily in pediatric domains, but also including technical assistance overseas. Harold provides methodological expertise to guideline developers at a number of national professional societies. Harold created and directs a number of informatics training programs at Johns Hopkins, ranging from undergrad through Certificate, Masters, pre-doctoral, and post-doctoral training in clinical and public health informatics. Harold was also instrumental in initiating, in conjunction with Jonathan Weiner, public health informatics training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and, in conjunction with Patricia Abbott, the Applied Health Informatics Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Harold is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. 
A/Prof Paula Otero, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires; IMIA Vice Chair  Paula Otero is Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and a faculty member in the Department of Health Informatics, School of Medicine, at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Paula is also the Vice-Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Health and Medical Informatics Education Working Group. 
Ms. Sallyanne Wissmann, Australian Health Informatics Education Committee (AHIEC) representative; President of HIMAA

Sallyanne Wissmann is the President of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA). Sallyanne has worked as a Health Information Manager for 19 years in the public and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand and is the Director, Health Information Services at Mater Health Services in Brisbane.  Sallyanne has been involved in the development of the AHIEC Scope, Careers and Competencies document.

Ms. Di Millen, National Health Services (NHS), UK   Di Millen is the Head of Workforce and Development, Departmant of Health Information Directorate (England). Di's goals for 2011-2012 include establishing a sustainable informatice workforce development infrastructure that can be implemented across the NHS is England; and starting to build a qualifications framework to support informatics professional career pathways. Embedding informatics in clinical education is also a major theme in Di's programme. See www.cfh.nhs.uk/eice.
Dr. John Zelcer, National eHealth Transition Authority (NeHTA)  John Zelcer is the Head of Strategy at NEHTA. John’s role is to oversee NEHTA’s corporate strategy, support the organisation’s operational alignment to the strategy and help guide internal departmental strategic planning. His team is also responsible for NEHTA’s work in Benefits Realisation and in Compliance, Conformance and Accreditation.John is a medical practitioner and corporate strategy advisor whose background includes clinical and academic medicine, strategy management consulting and senior executive management roles in Australia and the United States.  John is also a board member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA). 
Ms. Jane Austin, Health Workforce Australia (HWA)   Jane Austin is the Program Manager of Clinical Training Reform in Health Workforce Australia. Jane has 19 years experience spanning clinical practice, program and project management and policy development. In the past, Jane has been the Senior Policy Manager at the National Health Service Federation. Jane has also been the Performance Review Manager at Dorset Health Authority. In addition to this, Jane has been in the role of Senior Policy Analyst at the New South Wales (NSW) Health Department.
Ms. Maureen M. Charlebois, Chief Nursing Executive & Group Director, Clinical Adoption, Canada Health Infoway Maureen Charlebois is the Chief Nursing Executive & Group Director, Clinical Adoption at Canada Health Infoway. Maureen provides national leadership to facilitate clinical engagement, advance best practices in the clinician adoption of electronic health information solutions and support the measurement and realization of benefits through an integrated approach to change management, adoption, knowledge translation and benefits evaluation.Maureen has held a number of senior leadership positions in Acute Care, Community Care, Long-Term Care and with the Ontario Ministry of Health, Continuing Care eHealth division. Maureen served as a surveyor with the Canadian Council of Health Services Accreditation for six years and is a past board member of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives Toronto GTA Chapter. Maureen currently is a Board member on Canada’s Health Informatics Association and the Canadian Virtual Health Library. Maureen holds a Masters of Science in Health Administration from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing and is a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Service Executives. 
Ms. Jeannette Murphy, University College London   Jeannette Murphy is a senior research fellow in Health Informatics at University College London in the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, School of Life and Medical Sciences.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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