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| Trish Ryan | |
| Stefan Perkovic | |
| Natalie Sims | |
| Louise Edmonds | |
| Vicki Bennett | |
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Profile - Board of Directors |
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| Trish Ryan | |
| Stefan Perkovic | |
| Natalie Sims | |
| Louise Edmonds | |
| Vicki Bennett | |
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Board is made up of eight Directors who oversee the policy and business
decisions of the Health Information Management Association of Australia. More information on Governance is available here. |
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| Trish Ryan - President | |
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Trish was awarded an Associate Diploma of Medical Record Administration from the Lincoln Institute of Health Science - Victoria. Patricia has been very active in her State (Victoria) Branch and the ACT since 1984.
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Stefan Perkovic - Senior Vice President |
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Graduated in 1999 with Bachelor degree in Health Information Management from the University of Sydney. Stefan is a current active member of HIMAA, including immediate past president of the NSW Branch (2003-2005). Stefan represents the profession on various committees, including external Advisory Committee of the University of Sydney School of Health Information Management, Health Service Union, Health information Management Professional Vocation Committee (Chair), and NSW Health Privacy Reference Group. Stefan's previous positions include Senior Business Analyst, Electronic Medical Record Project, (South Western Sydney Area Health Service); and Medico Legal Manager (Liverpool Health Service). Stefan is currently
employed as Director of Clinical Information Services at St George
Hospital & Community Health Service (South Eastern Sydney Illawarra
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Natalie Sims - Junior Vice President |
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Natalie graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science, Health Information Management from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. In 2003 Natalie accepted a position in Canberra as the Health Information Manager at John James Hospital a 150 bed private hospital. Natalie is now currently employed as the Metadata Manager for the Information Service Branch in ACT Health. Over the past 4 years she has been actively involved at the local ACT HIMAA Branch serving as Secretary, Treasurer and Vice President. For the past 2 years she has represented the ACT Branch on the National HIMAA Executive Committee, as well as various HIMAA Conference Organising Committees. |
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| Louise Edmonds - Board Member | |
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Louise graduated from
The University of Sydney's School of Health Information Management
with a Bachelor of Applied Science (MRA) in 1989 and has completed a
Masters of Business Administration through Manuka Institute of
Technology (Auckland NZ) and the Southern Cross University NSW (2004).
She is the current (ACT) HIMAA Branch Vice President and
is currently working with
ACTHealth as Senior Manager Information Management
Section. Louise has been employed in a range of
HIM positions in ACT, Queensland
and New Zealand within the hospital,
corporate health and commonwealth environments.
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Vicki Bennett - Board Member |
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Vicki graduated from The University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Applied Science (HIM) in 1990 and later returned to complete a Masters of Health Science (Health Informatics) in 2003. She is currently the Head of the Health Care Safety and Quality Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in Canberra. Vicki has a diverse range of experience in both public and private hospitals, city and rural settings in Australia. She has worked as an educator for The University of Sydney and the National Centre for Classification in Health, and was previously employed by Medicare Australia as the Information Strategy Section Manager, Information Services Branch. Vicki also has extensive experience working as a health information consultant in Tonga, Vanuatu and Fiji. |
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