Dr Daniel Heredia has replaced Dr Margaret Sturdy as Director of Medical Services at Hollywood Hospital and Dr Sturdy has taken up the position of CEO/DMS at Peel Health Campus, which is now operated by Ramsay Health Care.
Mr David Malone has been re-appointed Executive Director of Healthway for a further five years.
The University of Notre Dame will establish the Churack Chair of Chronic Pain Education and Research after a private donation of $1m from Geoff and Moira Churack. The head of the department is expected to be selected later in the year.
Western Australian Metropolitan Hospitals and Country Health Services 2014 junior doctor intake is now open. Positions for Resident Medical Officer, Registrar, Senior Registrar and Fellows are advertised on www.jobs.wa.gov.au. Applications close on Friday, July 12 at 11.45am. www.pmcwa.health.wa.gov.au/rmo/positions.cfm
Dr Nik Zeps has been appointed national research coordinator for SJOG Health Care. He will oversee the cancer biobank and the translational research program in the pathology division.
Aged Care provider St Ives Group, which was bought last year by RAC WA, has appointed RAC vice-president, Mr Tony Evans, Hawaiian Group CEO, Mr Russell Gibbs, and Southern Cross Care executive, Ms Wendy Silver, to its board.
CEO of WA-based Youth Focus, Ms Jenny Allen, has signed a partnership agreement with NSW Black Dog Institute. Ms Allen said the partnership would allow both groups improve the delivery of mental health care services in WA.
Rural Health West has been awarded two contracts from the Federal Government to deliver programs to boost participation by health professionals in outreach health services in rural and remote areas and for Indigenous chronic disease programs.
GP registrar Dr John van Bockxmeer, who featured in Medical Forum in September, has won the Young Leader Award at the 2013 HESTA Primary Health Care Awards for his work with indigenous and refugee communities.
Mr John Fogarty has been appointed as Executive Director Perth Southern Hospitals and CEO of St John of God Murdoch. Mr Fogarty is currently Chief Operating Officer at Mercy Health in Melbourne. He will join SJGHC on September 9.
Anaethetist Dr Richard Riley, Booragoon GP Dr Natalie Sumich and paediatric registrar Dr Clark Maul have been appointed to the President’s Medical Liaison Committee in Perth for MDA National.