Meet the Northern Health Board 

The Board of Northern Health consists of independent non-executive Directors. The Directors have no other relationship with Northern Health other than their reponsibilities as a Board member.

	Dr Sandra Hacker, AO (Board Chair) Dr Sandra Hacker chairs the board of Northern Health and sits on its Finance, Audit and Risk and Quality Committees. Prior to her Northern Health appointment, she served on the Eastern Health Board. Sandra is a psychiatrist in private practice, who also works as a liaison psychiatrist at the Alfred Hospital Heart and Lung Transplant Unit. Her prime area of clinical interest is in severe trauma, and her clinical work involves mostly long-term psychotherapy with adult victims of severe childhood sexual assault. She is a Board member of the mental Health Research Institute. She is a Deputy Chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Committee, a principal committee of the National Health & Medical Research Council, and is a member of the NHMRC Health Privacy Working Party. She chairs the Cunningham Dax collection of Psychiatric Art advisory committee, and is a member of the Victorian Medical Benevolent Association. She is chair of the Inner Suburban subdivision of AMA Victoria and is a councillor of AMA Victoria. She sits on the health panel in Victoria for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Sandra is a former chair of the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare. She is a past president of the AMA Victoria and a former federal vice-president of the AMA. She was secretary of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and a former College Censor. Sandra was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours List of 2005 for services to the medical profession.
	Mr Stephen Black Mr Black has extensive senior management and operational experience in various roles with a diverse range of government and statutory bodies as well as the private sector. He has served as Managing Director of a Melbourne-based consulting company where he has provided valuable assistance to high technology telecommunications and ICT ‘start up’ companies, utilities and telecommunications carriers. Prior to that, Mr Black held the positions of Director Forward Planning and Director Strategic Planning with AAPT, having previously served as the founding Managing Director of United Energy Telecommunications. He also held a number of senior executive positions with Telstra, including Group General Manager Customer Affairs, and positions with the Victorian Government including Chairman, State Tender Board, Director of Gaming, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of finance, Deputy Director-General, Housing and Construction and A/g Director of Housing. Mr Black has also served as Chairman of Boards controlling state Government initiatives including the Board of the Telecommunications Purchasing and Management Strategy (TPAMS) and VeRSI a consortium between Melbourne, Monash and La Trobe Universities and the Victorian Government to develop e-research in Victoria. Mr Black is also a Director of a number of Victorian ICT and energy management focused companies.
	Mr Steve Hay Steve Hay has more than 20 years experience in the field of real estate. He is currently a director of Northside Landsales. A licensed real estate agent and a qualified auctioneer, he was born and raised in the north of Melbourne, where he still lives. Steve has been instrumental in the successful development of the Hayston Valley Estate in Epping which is now home to approximately 1500 residents. Steve has a long association with Northern Health, having served on the Fundraising Committee of The Northern hospital for more than seven years. Steve serves on the community Advisory and Primary Care and Population Health Advisory Board sub-Committees.
	Ms Sabine Phillips Sabine Phillips is currently a Principal with Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd, a law firm in Melbourne. Sabine has been with Russell Kennedy since 2004. Sabine works in the area of Health and Aged Care. Sabine has a Master of Laws (Legal Practice) and a Master of Business (Organisational Behaviour). Sabine 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 College of Nursing Australia, and an Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Administrators. Sabine is also a sessional member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on the Occupational and Business List. Sabine brings to Northern Health a wealth of experience in health and aged care, including the acute public hospital sector, residential aged care and as an assessor for the Aged Care Standards & Accreditation Agency.
	Mr Ray Judd Ray Judd currently holds the position as Principal with the Nous Group. Before joining the Nous Group, Ray had a long and successful career in the Victorian Public Service. Whilst working at Nous, Ray has been involved in health sector evaluation, aged and disability strategic planning and a range of other social policy development initiatives commissioned by the Australian, Victorian and New South Wales Governments. Ray was formerly Executive Director, Community Building and Information with the Department for Victorian Communities (DVC). The work at DVC was a natural progression from Ray’s work within the Department of Premier and Cabinet, where he was responsible for establishing the Victorian Government’s Community Building strategy and revamping the Community Support Fund. Ray spent 14 years with the Department of Human Services and its predecessors where he worked in senior roles in head office and regional management and was involved in most program areas of the department. This included 6 years managing a range of public health programs including drug policy, food safety, Indigenous health and health promotion. Ray is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration (Victorian Division) in recognition of his contribution to the development and implementation of sound public policy.
	Mr Brian Joyce Until recently Brian Joyce was Regional Director of the amalgamated North and West Region of the Department of Human Services. He was Southern Regional Director for six years until 1999. He has held several senior positions within the Victorian Public Service. Formerly Mr Joyce was Acting Executive Director of Department Operations, responsible for regional operations, human resources, emergency management and Juvenile Justice Custodial Services. Earlier – following the 2002/03 bushfires – Mr Joyce was responsible to the Ministerial Taskforce for coordination of the whole-of-Government recovery initiatives.
	Ms Marilyn Beaumont With a registered general and psychiatric nurse background Marilyn has extensive experience in management and administration, health policy development and analysis, women’s health and health consumer rights. Marilyn is a current member of the Australian Women’s Health Network Management Committee and Victorian Department of Justice Women’s Correctional Services Advisory Committee. From 2000 and until June 2009 she was a member of the Board of Directors for Melbourne Health. Marilyn is the current Women’s Health Victoria Executive Director, a position she has held since 1995. Between 1987 to 1995 Marilyn was Federal Secretary - Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) and prior to that for 5 years ANF South Australian Branch Secretary. In 2003 Marilyn was awarded the Australian Centenary of Federation Medal and in 2007 she was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her contribution to women’s health.
	Ms Sue Renkin  Sue has held General Management/Chief Executive appointments since 1984. Most recently she enjoys joint appointments as a CEO of a not for profit organisation together with running her own management consultancy. After a short career in nursing, Sue moved into hospital management in 1983, and held CEO appointments in the hospital sector until 1998. Sue’s past three CEO positions have required a strong focus on restructuring organisations to improve profitability and business growth. This success in turning organisations around has been achieved through business development, motivational leadership, change management, brand development and strategic vision. In 1997 Sue was awarded the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award for the private sector with more than 100 employees in both Victoria and then again for Australia. Sue achieved her MBA from Monash University in 1995 and has since studied Strategic Management at Harvard University in USA. In addition to her other roles she has also been actively involved in government lobbying for a period and is currently Prime Minister’s representative on Australian Bravery Council, Sue currently holds the Chair of the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science Advisory Board, Chair of Monash Institute of Nanosciences Advisory Board, is a member of Dean of Medicine Advisory Board at Monash, is a Non Executive Director for General Practice Victoria and also GMHBA.
	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. Vin 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. Vin’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, 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