Annual Report - Northern Health

Northern Health Board cont’dProfessor Vin MassaroProfessor Vin Massaro has considerableexperience in senior management in highereducation and health institutions, and asa consultant and adviser in Australia andinternationally. He has also chaired or beena member of several boards.Professor Massaro is currentlyManaging Director of Massaro Consulting,a company providing strategic advice onhigher education policy, managementand governance, and on health workforceplanning and training to organisations andgovernment departments.He has been Chief Executive of the RoyalAustralasian College of Surgeons andwas the inaugural Chief Executive of theVictorian State Board of Education. He hasheld senior positions at Flinders Universityand the Lincoln Institute of HealthSciences. He has also been a consultanton higher education to the OECD and isEditor of its international Journal of HigherEducation Management and Policy.Professor Massaro’s Board roles haveincluded the Anti- Cancer Foundation ofSouth Australia, the Australian Safety andEfficacy Register of New InterventionalProcedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-s),Flinders Reproductive Medicine, FlindersConsulting and the Advisory Board of theCentre for International Mental Health at theUniversity of Melbourne.He holds a Professorial Fellowship in theAustralian Health Workforce Institute, a jointInstitute of the Universities of Melbourneand Queensland, and is a ProfessorialFellow in the LH Martin Institute for HigherEducation Leadership and Managementand the Centre for the Study of HigherEducation at the University of Melbourne.Ms Sabine PhillipsSabine Phillips is currently a Principalwith Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd, a lawfirm in Melbourne. Ms Phillips has beenwith Russell Kennedy since 2004 andworks in the area of Health and AgedCare. 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 ofMs Sue RenkinSue Renkin has held Chief Executiveappointments since 1984 in health andemergency services industries. Her focushas been on the restructure of organisationsto improve profitability and business growththrough business development, motivationalleadership, change management, branddevelopment and strategic vision.Ms Renkin commenced her career innursing, moved into hospital managementin 1983, and held CEO appointments inthe hospital sector until 1998. Ms Renkincompleted an MBA from Monash Universityin 1995 and has since studied StrategicManagement at Harvard University in theUSA.In 1997 Ms Renkin was awarded the Telstraaged care facilities. She is a member ofthe Law Institute of Victoria, a Fellow of theRoyal College of Nursing Australia, and anAssociate Fellow of the Australian Collegeof Health Service Administrators. Ms Phillipsis also a sessional member of the VictorianCivil and Administrative Tribunal on theOccupational and Business List.Ms Phillips brings to Northern Health awealth of experience in health and agedcare and the law.Business Woman of the Year Award for theprivate sector.Ms Renkin has been actively involved ingovernment lobbying for a period and iscurrently a community representative on theAustralian Bravery Council. In addition to herrole as Non Executive Director at NorthernHealth,Ms Renkin currently holds the Chair of theClayton Laboratories Advanced ImagingResearch Centre, the Chair of MonashCentre for Green Chemistry and is amember of the Dean of Medicine AdvisoryBoard at Monash.Ms Renkin was recently appointed Chair ofthe Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trustand is a non-executive Director for GeneralPractice Victoria and GMHBA HealthInsurance.8 annual report Northern Health 11/12