Clinical Nurse Manager Ms Sarah Ward is the new Operations Manager at Mandurah Hospital, having worked at Peel Health Campus for the past four years. PHC’s 22 bed ED sees over 45,000 patients annually, within the 130 bed hospital that was established in 1997.
Dr Moir Sim takes up the post of Medical Director of Silver Chain’s Home Hospital, following the departure of Dr Roslyn Carbon.
UWA medical graduate Dr Vinay Menon has been awarded an Australia-At-Large Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in the UK. Last year he received the Young People’s Human Rights Medal for his voluntary advocacy work with refugees, indigenous communities and children living with a disability.
Dr Sam Brophy-Williams (RPH) has won the Sir John Monash scholarship to fund international postgraduate study –$50,000 a year for three years – and Sam hopes to head to Oxford to focus on global health science.
St John of God Health Care has been chosen to design and operate the new 367-bed Midland Health Campus.
Paediatrician and infectious diseases specialist Prof Jonathan Carapetis takes over next July as director of Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. He is currently director of Darwin’s Menzies School of Health Research. Prof Stanley will continue with the Telethon Institute as Patron and a Chief Investigator on a number of research grants. The Institute’s Director of Academic and Research Services, Prof Moira Clay, is currently the interim director.
MDA National Insurance has appointed Mr John Trowbridge as a director of the MDA National Insurance Board. John is the Interim Director of Australia’s Centre for International Finance and Regulation, and he chaired the Australian Government’s Natural Disaster Insurance Review Panel and spent four years on executive with APRA.
SJOG Murdoch has linked up with Notre Dame University to appoint its first ever Professor of Nursing Research, Ms Leanne Monterosso. Dr Tony Robins moves from Director Medical Services, a position now held by Dr Shirley Bowen, to take charge of Medical Education and Training at SJOG’s Group Office. Dr Ian Rogers has been appointed Prof of Emergency Medicine through a partnership with Notre Dame Uni.
SKG Radiology CEO Dr Sue Ulreich has been appointed the new president for the Australian Diagnostic Imaging Association, which has radiology groups as members. In WA, these comprise Global Diagnostics, Perth Radiological Clinics (I-Med Network), SKG Radiology (Sonic Healthcare Ltd) and Insight Clinical Imaging.
Prof Lee Leung received the Doctor of the Year 2011 award at the Christmas function for SJOG Murdoch Hospital.
Prof Con Michael AO has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Notre Dame Uni for his work with the Fremantle School of Medicine and his achievements in the medical profession.