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.

	Professor Glenn Bowes – Board Chair Appointed 1 July 2011 Glenn Bowes is currently Associate Dean (External Relations) and a Professor in the Department of Paediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Professor Bowes completed his medical degree and PhD at Monash University and his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. He was Director of Respiratory Services at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in the 1980s. He was recruited to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne in early 1991 to establish the nation’s first clinical, academic program in youth health, the Centre for Adolescent Health, and become the inaugural Professor of Adolescent Health at the University of Melbourne. During 16 years at the Royal Children’s Hospital campus he held a range of executive leadership roles including Chief Medical Officer, Executive Director and between 2002 & 2007 was Stevenson Professor of Paediatrics and Head of Department of Paediatrics. He has served as both a Board member and Chair of Very Special Kids Inc, the Youth Substance Abuse Service and the Royal Children’s Hospital Education Institute. He has also served as a Board Member of the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Vic Health and Mentone Grammar School.  He is currently President & Camp Chief of Lord Somers Camp & Power House and has been an elected member of the Council of the University of Melbourne since 2008. In 1996 he was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the Victorian Child Death Review Committee and served in that role until 2000. He has also served as a member of the Australian Council of Children and Parenting and the Victorian Premier’s Drug Prevention Council.
	Ms Marilyn Beaumont With a registered general and psychiatric nurse background Ms Beaumont has extensive experience in management and administration, health policy development and analysis, women’s health and health consumer rights. Ms Beaumont is a member of a number of advisory committees to government including the Victorian Women’s Correctional Services Advisory Committee and Justice Health Clinical Advisory Committee. Amongst a number of previous Board positions Ms Beaumont has held, from 2000 to 2009 she was a member of the Melbourne Health Board. She is a current member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Ms Beaumont is the current Women’s Health Victoria Executive Director. Between 1987 to 1995 she was Federal Secretary - Australian Nursing Federation and prior to that for 5 years ANF South Australian Branch Secretary. In 2003 Ms Beaumont was awarded the Australian Centenary of Federation Medal and in 2007 she was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women both for her contribution to women’s health.
	Mr Ian Dunn  Mr Dunn has 14 years experience as a CEO or Chair of significant organisations, most recently as the first Chair of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation. Mr Dunn was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court and High Court in 1967. He is a qualified Mediator and has handled over 100 mediations in the Supreme Court, County Court and Federal Court together with several arbitrations.  In 2009 Mr Dunn was appointed to the VCAT panel of mediators.  Before that Mr Dunn was a principal consultant with The Strategy Shop and carried out many consultancies for the Victorian Government.   Currently Mr Dunn is Deputy Ombudsman (General Insurance) for the Financial Ombudsman Service.  He is a member of the Quality Review Advisory Committee for CPA Australia, and continues to serve as a Mediator for VCAT and the Supreme Court of Victoria and the County Court.
	Mr Leigh Hocking  Mr Hocking’s background is in management and human resources consulting and corporate governance; fields in which he has over 25 years of experience. He is a Director of Magellan Consulting Partners, an organisational development consulting firm that specialises in major organisational change, team coaching and leadership development.  In those roles Mr Hocking has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors in industries as diverse as utilities and infrastructure, mining and energy, transport, manufacturing and defence, emergency services and higher education to mention some. Mr Hocking is a director Westernport Water and also serves on the Remuneration Committee of that Board.  He was formerly the Chair of the Board of Rural Ambulance Victoria and was the Ministerial Delegate on the Board of Ambulance Victoria.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
	Mr Brian Joyce Mr Joyce is a Certified Practising Accountant and Master of Administration (Monash) and has extensive experience in Hospitals and Health Services management and financing. Until 2008 Mr Joyce was Regional Director of the North and West Metropolitan Region of the Department of Human Services (DHS).  During his career with DHS Mr Joyce held a number of senior executive positions including Director, Primary and Community Health, Executive Director Operations, and Regional Director, Southern Metropolitan Region.  Mr Joyce also held the position of Deputy Chief General Manager of the former State Department of Health. Prior to joining the Government Mr Joyce held the positions of Finance Director, Box Hill Hospital and Manager, Finance and Services, of the Victorian Branch of the Health Insurance Commission and Medibank Private. Mr Joyce is presently the government appointed part time Administrator of Western Education Support and Training Network (WestNet), a disability service provider.  Mr Joyce also undertakes consulting work in the Human Services sector.
	Professor Gab Kovacs AM Professor Gab Kovacs AM has a distinguished record as a medical practitioner over more than 40 years in both the public and private sectors, including 16 years as Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Box Hill Hospital and also as a Director of  Box Hill Hospital. He is widely known for his visionary role with IVF, including time as Medical Director of Monash IVF and Family Planning Victoria. He has 20 years of experience as a Director of both commercial and not-for-profit organizations and is currently a Director of Access, Australia’s National Infertility Network, the Carl Wood Foundation and Isis Fertility.
	Professor Vin Massaro     Professor 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. Professor Massaro 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 Ms Phillips is currently a Principal with Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd, a law firm in Melbourne.  Ms Phillips has been with Russell Kennedy since 2004.  Ms Phillips 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 & Accreditation Agency.
	Ms Sue Renkin  Ms 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.