ANNUAL REPORT - Northern Health

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Professor Vin Massaro
Professor Vin Massaro has considerable experience in
senior management in higher education and health
institutions, and as a consultant and adviser in Australia and
internationally. He has also chaired or been a member of
several boards.
Professor Massaro is currently Managing Director of Massaro
Consulting, a company providing strategic advice on higher
education policy, management and governance, and on
health workforce planning and training to organisations and
government departments.
He has been Chief Executive of the Royal Australasian College
of Surgeons and was the inaugural Chief Executive of the
Victorian State Board of Education. He has held senior
positions at Flinders University and the Lincoln Institute of
Health Sciences (now the Faculty of Health Sciences at La
Trobe University). He has also been a consultant on higher
education to the OECD and is Editor of its international
Journal of Higher Education Management and Policy.
Professor Massaro’s Board roles have included the Anti-
Cancer Foundation of South Australia, the Australian Safety
and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures
- Surgical (ASERNIP-s), Flinders Reproductive Medicine,
Flinders Consulting and the Advisory Board of the Centre for
International Mental Health at the University of Melbourne.
He holds a Professorial Fellowship in the Australian Health
Workforce Institute, a joint Institute of the Universities of
Melbourne and Queensland, and is a Professorial Fellow
in the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership
and Management and the Centre for the Study of Higher
Education at the University of Melbourne
Ms Sabine Phillips
Sabine Phillips is currently a Principal with Russell Kennedy
Pty Ltd, a law firm in Melbourne. Ms Phillips has been
with Russell Kennedy since 2004 and works in the area of
Health and Aged Care. Ms Phillips has a Master of Laws
(Legal Practice) and a Master of Business (Organisational
Behaviour).
Ms Phillips is also a registered nurse (Division 1) and has
been a proprietor of aged care facilities. She is a member of
the Law Institute of Victoria, a Fellow of the Royal Collage of
Nursing Australia, and an Associate Fellow of the Australian
College of Health Service Administrators. Ms Phillips is also
a sessional member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative
Tribunal on the Occupational and Business List.
Ms Phillips brings to Northern Health a wealth of experience
in health and aged care and as a past assessor for the Aged
Care Standards and Accreditation Agency.
Ms Sue Renkin
Sue Renkin has held Chief Executive appointments since
1984 in health and emergency services industries. Her
focus has been on the restructure of organisations to
improve profitability and business growth through business
development, motivational leadership, change management,
brand development and strategic vision.
Ms Renkin commenced her career in nursing, moved into
hospital management in 1983, and held CEO appointments
in the hospital sector until 1998. Ms Renkin completed an
MBA from Monash University in 1995 and has since studied
Strategic Management at Harvard University in the USA.
In 1997 Ms Renkin was awarded the Telstra Business Woman
of the Year Award for the private sector with more than 100
employees in Victoria and then again for Australia.
Ms Renkin has been actively involved in government lobbying
for a period and is currently a community representative on
the Australian Bravery Council. In addition to her role as Non
Executive Director at Northern Health, Ms Renkin currently
holds the Chair of the Clayton Laboratories Advanced
Imaging Research Centre and the Chair of Monash Centre for
Green Chemistry and is a member of the Dean of Medicine
Advisory Board at Monash.
Ms Renkin was recently appointed Chair of the Southern
Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust and is a non-executive
Director for General Practice Victoria and GMHBA Health
Insurance.
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