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Dr Sidney Chandrasiri
MBBS MHM FCHSM FRACMA CHIA GAICD
Dr Sidney Chandrasiri is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (FRACMA), a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (FCHSM), Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), and holds a Masters in Health Management and Certification in Health Informatics. She is a graduate of the highly selective Harvard Business School Intensive Seminar program on Value Based HealthCare taught by Michael Porter. Dr Chandrasiri is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Group Director, Academic and Medical Services at Epworth HealthCare, Sentinel event reviewer for The Department of Health in Victoria and was Board Director of the Heathcote Health Board ofManagement. She has medical management experience in both public and private health care organizations across Australia and New Zealand, has lectured in health system management to post graduate students at the University of Monash in Melbourne, is a speaker at multiple medical forums across Australia and has published widely in leading medical management journals. Her current portfolio in Australia encompasses health service leadership, and a number of areas across clinical governance, through to clinical services design and strategic planning. |
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Dr Rachel David, MBBS, MBA, GAICD
Chief Executive Officer, Private Healthcare Australia
Dr Rachel David is an expert on healthcare policy and financing, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Private Healthcare Australia, the industry peak body representing health funds. Formerly a medical practitioner, she is dedicated to harnessing medical best practice and policy to improve health outcomes in the community. Previously a senior advisor to the Federal Health Minister between 1996 and 2000, her relationships in the government sector and Australian business community extend to the highest levels.
Dr David has worked with the international pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices industries for more than a decade, including Australian biotech leader CSL, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. On the senior management team of CSL Ltd, she played a pivotal role in making the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil available to Australian women, and later boys. She has also been a founding practice manager of the McKinsey & Company health and government sector practice in Australia.
In her current role, Dr David undertakes policy and advocacy work, as well as thought leadership for Australia’s major health funds.
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James Downie
Chief Executive Officer, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA)
James Downie is the Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA). Prior to this James was the Executive Director, Activity Based Funding, leading the teams responsible for delivering the classification, costing and pricing functions of IHPA as well as the data acquisition activities.
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Adjunct Professor Toby Hall
Group Chief Executive Officer, Saint Vincent’s Health Australia
Toby was appointed CEO of St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s second largest healthcare provider in April 2014. Prior to this, he was the CEO of Mission Australia, COO of World Vision Australia and CEO of South Taranaki District Council.
He is a qualified accountant with an MBA, Toby is passionate about helping people “be the best they can be”.
Toby is a director of UNICEF Australia, Director of the Fujitsu Advisory Board, he chaired ASX listed Sterihealth prior to delisting and was a director of Working Links the largest welfare to work provider to the U.K government. He has also been a director of Goodstart, Australia’s largest provider of early learning services to over 60,000 children and various Christian community organisations.
He has been a member of a range of government committees and advisory panels. |
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Dr Jean-Frédéric Levesque
Chief Executive, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation
Dr Jean joined the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation as Chief Executive in June 2017. He was previously Chief Executive of the Bureau of Health Information between 2013 and 2017. Jean-Frédéric brings to the ACI leadership in healthcare system analysis and improvement, combining experience in clinical practice in refugee health and tropical medicine, in clinical governance and in academic research. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales.
Jean-Frédéric has a Medical Degree, a Masters in Community Health and a Doctorate in Public Health from the Université de Montréal, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He is a member of the Strategic Analytic Advisory Committee of the Canadian Institute of Health Information and a member of the HealthShare NSW Board.
Prior to joining NSW Health, Jean-Frédéric held senior positions responsible for publicly reporting information about the Canadian health system at the Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec and the Commissaire a la santé et au bien-etre du Québec and he was a Visiting Academic at the University of Melbourne
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Dr Kean-Seng Lim
MBBS(Syd), FRACG, FAMA, GAICD
Dr Lim is a General Practitioner and GP Principal in a small group practice in Mt Druitt. He is the immediate past President of AMA (NSW), a Wentwest Clinical Council member and a management committee member of the Mt Druitt Medical Practitioners Association. In 2015 he was awarded the RACGP General Practitioner of the Year award. He has previously served on the RACGP Faculty Board and Wentwest Board. Among other things, he has been a Clinical Lead with the National E-Health Transition Authority is one of the developers of the schools based obesity prevention and lifestyle education program - SALSA, with which he remains heavily involved. He was previously involved in developing the Health Care Homes training material as well as engaged in PHN Training. He currently serves on several advisory groups including the QIPIP Data Governance Group and ADHA mHealth Working Group. He has been heavily engaged in the Western Sydney PCMH implementation project, and as a member of the Wentwest Clinical leaders group, and currently Co-Chairs the Western Sydney Value Based Urgent Care Subcommittee. He is also the Co-Founder of CareMonitor, a Patient-Provider Partnership Shared Care Digital Platform.
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Siddharth Parameswaran,
Insurance and Diversified Financials Equity Analysts at JP Morgan
Siddharth analyses the strategies employed by financial services companies (mainly in insurance) and assesses whether these will result in appreciation in share prices. He is a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute of Australia, a Fellow of Finsia and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Insead (France) and Bachelor of Economics (Major Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University.
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Dan Pole
Dan is a social researcher who has built a career providing clients with the evidence they need to make better, more actionable decisions.
As director of Healthcare & Insurance Australia (HCIA), one of Australia’s longest running longitudinal monitors of attitude and behaviour, Dan has worked with government and industry to deeply understand health consumers, forecast industry trends, and assess the need for regulatory reform. Through this work Dan has made connections with stakeholders across the private health sector and delivered findings to health ministers, health fund CEO’s, ministerial committees, parliamentary committees, and industry groups.
Beyond this work, Dan has led qualitative investigations into the decision-making process among clinical patients with recently incurred out-of-pocket expenses, as well as the drivers of referral patterns among general practitioners. He also leads the Your Experience of Service (YES) survey in Victoria and has done since its inception in 2015. This landmark survey – the first of its kind in Victoria – seeks to provide agencies delivering publicly funded mental health services with a measure of consumer experience in order to drive service quality improvement in the sector.
More recently, Dan has led research for the department of prime minister & cabinet tracking community sentiment during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, and for groups eager to assess the mental and physical health impacts of the pandemic on the Australian community.
Dan combines an interest in government policy and human behaviour with a detailed understanding of the complexities of collecting and analysing data.
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