Former RPH Director of Nursing Maha Rajagopal has been appointed Commissioner Lead, a role created to prepare for the transition of some services to FSH in 2014. RPH will be recommissioned as a 450 bed Tertiary Training Hospital from its current status as 650+ bed Tertiary Hospital.
Dr Doug Bridge recently retired as RPH’s Head of Department of Palliative Care. Dr Kevin Yuen is the new replacement.
The new State Director for DonateLife WA is Dr Bruce Powell, previously at ICU Rockingham General Hospital.
Brightwater Care Group CEO Dr Penny Flett has won the 2012 WA Seniors Award in the category Westscheme/ COTA WA Champion for Seniors Award.
A/Prof Fang-Xu Jiang (UWA) and Prof Philip Newsholme (Curtin) have been awarded grants by the Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART) for their insulin research projects.
Mr Brad Potter, has been named National Business Broker of the Year for 2012. Brad, who won the national rookie’s award in 2011, has been brokering businesses in the health care sector.
Mr Jeffrey Williams has been appointed Director of Nursing at St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals.
Dr Catherine Engelke, from Kununurra, has won the RACGP General Practice Registrar of the Year Award for 2012.
Mr Frank Prokop has been appointed executive director of the Health Consumers’ Council. Frank was previously head of Recfishwest. Mr Mitch Messer replaces Ms Anne McKenzie as chairperson, Ms Lorraine Powell continues as Deputy Chair, Mr Glenn Pearson is Secreatry and Mr Alan King is Treasurer.
The WA Vaccine Safety Surveillance System (WAVSS) won the Director General’s Award for 2012 at the WA Health Awards. The WAVSS project team consisted of Dr Paul Effler, Dr Dale Carcione, Ms Megan Scully, Dr Debbie Turner, Dr Donna Mak, Ms Kamala McDonell, from the Communicable Disease Control Directorate; Mr Ben Gordon, Ms Jo Daly, Dr Peter Richmond, Dr Chris Blyth from the Child and Adolescent Health Services, and Mr Kevin Marsh, Mr Jeff Ewen and Mr John Paul from the Health Informations Network.
Dr Lin Chan has been named 2012 WAGET GP Registrar of the Year, Dr Graeme Fitzclarence has won the 2012 Prevocational Community Medicine Award and the South Regional Medical Group has been name Training Practice of the Year.
A/Prof Kevin Pflegler, head of Molecular Endocrinology at WAIMR, Dr Alex Hewitt, a glaucoma genetics researcher from the Lions Eye Institute and Prof Lea-Ann Kirkham, a research with the Vaccine Trials Group from UWA each won a UWA Tall Poppy Science Award.