BOARD OF DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT
The Board and Management are made up of a group of inspired, skill-based leaders who bring knowledge, expertise, passion and years of experience to the organisation.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RICHARD ANICICH
AM BCom, LLB, FAICD
Chair
Chair, Executive Committee
Chair, Nominations & Corporate Governance Committee
Conjoint Professor, School of Law, Newcastle University
Consultant Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Chair, Committee for the Hunter
Chair, Hunter Primary Care
DR KIM WEBBER
PhD (Medicine) (Melb)
Deputy Chair
Member, Audit and Risk Committee
Member, Executive Committee
Executive Director, Strategy, Co-Health
Former CEO, Australian Rural Health Workforce Agency
Former Executive Director, Murrayt Darling Medical School
Former CEO, National Rural Health Alliance
World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Rural Health
MICHELE SMITH, OAM
RN, GCert HlthMgt, FACHSM,
MAICD, CHE
Chair, Clinical Governance Committee
Chair of the Eyre Far North Local Health Network
Member of the SA State-wide Clinical Services Committee
Member of SA’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board
Director of Unity Housing Board
Director of Disability Board Cara Inc.
DR IAN OPPERMANN
MBA(Lon), PhD (Syd). FIEEE, FIEAust, FTSE, FACS, GAICD
Chair, Audit and Risk Committee
NSW Chief Data Scientist, NSW Premiers and Cabinet
Chair, Standards Australia
Former Chief Executive Officer, NSW Data Analytics Centre
Former Director, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, CSIRO
CHRISTOPHER CLIFFE
FACN FCranaPlus FARLF MPCNA MPubHealth (JCU) DipHealthSci (Nursing) (UNISA) GradCertRuralLead (JCU) GradCert (AICD)
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Member, Clinical Governance Committee
Executive Locum, Palliative Care
Fmr CEO CranaPlus
Fmr Chair Coalition of Nursing and Midwifery
Fmr Director, Queensland AIDS
Fmr Member, National Lead Clinicians Group
Fmr Member, Preventative & Community Health, NHMRC
LEADERSHIP TEAM
MARK BURDACK
FGIA, GAICD, BA BLegS (Hon)
Chief Executive Officer
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Rural Health, La Trobe University
Associate Investigator, CRE for Stregthening Remote Healthcare in Australia
Member, Faculty of Rural, Remote and Humanitarian Healthcare, Royal College of Surgeons Endinburgh
Fmr Chair, Western Research Institute
Fmr CEO, LawAccess NSW
Fmr CEO, Australian Disputes Centre

CROYDON DOWLEY
Community Development & Planning
JULIA FAULKNER
Rural and Remote Health Innovation
DONNA ARMSTRONG
Accounts
ROD BLOOMFIELD
Community Engagement
TRACY HAIG
Telehealth
CASSANDRA TALBOT
Rural Mental Health, Rural & Remote Nursing, Gender & Sexuality healthcare
CATHERINE COOMANS
Media and Communications

CARL MASON
Aboriginal Health
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