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The Ballarat Health Services Board of Directors is appointed by the Governor in Council on the recommendation of the Minister for Health. The Board is responsible for setting the strategic directions of Ballarat Health Services within the framework of government policy.
Chair
Rowena Coutts
LLB BJuris Director since 2013 Term of appointment: 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2019
Rowena has been a member of Board of Directors since December 2013, and was appointed Interim Chair in March 2016 and Chair in July 2016.
Rowena currently consults to organisations providing governance, legal and policy advice and she is a partner in the family primary production business. She is a current and past board member of a number of Foundations, responsible for the distribution of funds supporting education.
Rowena is a former Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Ballarat/Federation University Australia, retiring in 2014, with responsibility for Corporate Services including Finance, Legal, Governance, HR, Technology Park, Commercial, International Education and PR. In addition, she served as Secretary to the University Council from 1996-2014. She is also a former Chair and member of Board of Directors, Ballarat Clarendon College. Rowena commenced her career as a lawyer.
Rowena has over 10 years experience in senior executive management, 20 years experience in public sector governance, 28 years as a practicing lawyer and 18 years of community service to (school) education.
Deputy Chair
Patty Kinnersly
DipAOD BEd GradCertMgt MMgt GAICD Director since 2015 Term of appointment: 01/07/2015 - 30/06/2018
Patty Kinnersly is the Director Practice Leadership at Our Watch, an organisation established to drive nationwide change in the culture, behaviours and power imbalances that lead to violence against women and their children. For the nine years previous, Patty was the CEO of a regional, rural health promotion organisation, Women’s Health Grampians. She has a background and qualifications in governance, welfare, health and education with post graduate qualifications in management and education.
Patty is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a non-executive director on the Australian Women’s Health Network National Board.
Patty was appointed Deputy Chair at Ballarat Health Services in July 2015, is the Chair of Primary Care and Population Health Advisory Committee, a member of Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Board Executive Committee.
Juliana Addison
BA(Hons) GradDipEd MA(Communications) Director since 2015 Term of appointment: 01/07/2015 - 30/06/2018
Juliana was appointed to the Ballarat Health Services Board of Directors in July 2015.
Juliana is a Teacher of History at Ballarat Clarendon College. She has a Masters of Arts in Communications and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Monash University, and a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne. Juliana is well-experienced in Workplace Relations and Occupational Health and Safety. Previously, she has worked for unions representing employees in the steel industry in Wollongong and also the printing industry nationally.
Juliana has a strong interest in public policy and healthcare and was motivated to join the Board after many years as a consumer and a parent of two young children who rely on Ballarat Health Services.
Juliana is Chair of the Quality Care Committee and the Consumer Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the Finance Committee and the newly established People and Culture Committee.
Kirby Clark
BCom CA FAIDC Director since 2016
Term of appointment: 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2019
Kirby was appointed to the Board of Ballarat Health in July 2016 and is chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Quality and Board Executive committees. Kirby previously served on the Board of Eastern Health for nine years and was chair the Audit and Risk Committee and was a member of the Finance and the Planning Strategy and HR Committees.
Kirby is a director of Newcastle Airport as well as being on the advisory boards of Infradebt Pty Ltd and Knight Mattingly Coffee Roasters. Kirby was Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer at Melbourne and Launceston Airport for more than 14 years. Kirby was also a senior executive at Victorian Planation Corporation and Toronto Dominion Australia Ltd and was spent seven years with Price Waterhouse in Canada and Australia.
Kirby has an honours degree in Commerce and Finance from the University of Toronto and is a member of both the Australian and Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants as well as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Kirby has strong strategic planning, financial and governance skills as well as a depth of general management experience.
Craig Coltman
MAICD Director since 2011 Term of appointment: 01/07/2014 - 30/06/2017
Craig Coltman was appointed to the Ballarat Health Services board in 2011.
In this time, he has sat on the Quality, Community Advisory and Population and Community engagement committees. He currently sits on the Finance committee and Chairs the Audit Committee.
Craig was Managing Director of Coltman Mitre 10 prior to its sale and has served the Ballarat Community on the following boards: Ballarat Foundation, PINARC and the Central Highlands Area Consultative Committee.
Professor Garry Jennings AO
MBBS MD FRCP FRACP FAHA FCSANZ MAICD FAAHMS Director since 2016 Term of appointment: 29/11/2016 - 30/06/2019
Garry Jennings AO is Senior Director at Baker IDI and Chief Medical Advisor (CMA) at the National Heart Foundation.
Garry is the past Director and Chief Executive Officer of Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He is also past President of the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes, the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia, the Asia Pacific Society of Hypertension and Head of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Cardiovascular Health.
A cardiologist, he has a distinguished career in clinical practice and was previously Director of Cardiology at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and Chair of the Division of Medicine.
His research interests cover the causes, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and have received national and international awards. He has published several books on heart disease for the general public and over 500 research publications cited more than 23000 times. In 2014 he received the Bjorn Folkow award from the European and International Societies of Hypertension for ‘outstanding research on the pathogenesis of hypertension’.
He was foundation Chair of Nucleus Network Ltd, and a Board member of the National Heart Foundation of Australia, Research Australia and several small biotechnology companies.
David Miller
DipCmmtyStud Director since 2015 Term of appointment: 01/07/2015 - 30/06/2018
David Miller is a retired public servant and long term resident of Ballarat. He studied politics and sociology at the Ballarat College of Advanced Education (now Federation University Australia) and urban studies at Swinburne Institute in Melbourne.
David was employed as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of Steve Bracks, the former Premier of Victoria. Prior to this he worked for 10 years for the City of Ballarat, initially as Director of Economic Development, then subsequently as General Manager, City and Cultural Development. Earlier in his career he was employed as a Business Development Officer with the Ballarat Regional Board for Planning and Development, an Employment Projects Officer with the Victorian Department of Labour and as an Electorate Officer for a Federal Member of Parliament.
David has recently been appointed an inaugural member of the State Government’s Central Highlands Regional Partnership that aims to develop new ways for regional and rural Victorians to engage with government. He is also a member of the Grampians Regional Development Australia (RDA) Committee that advises the Federal Government on regional development issues and funding opportunities. He also sits on the Board of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka.
His other local involvement includes membership of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery Association, the Ballarat Arts Foundation and the Ballarat Old Colonists’ Club. He and his wife Julie, a retired primary school principal, have two adult sons.
Natalie Reiter
BBus(Marketing) BA(Psychology) MBA Director since 2016 Term of appointment: 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2019
Natalie is a new member of Board of Directors and has been appointed Chair of the People and Culture Portfolio.
Natalie is Director of Planning and Development at the City of Moonee Valley and is a past Board Member of North East Health and St Luke’s Anglicare Bendigo. Natalie was previously General Manager City Strategy for the City of Ballarat, where she led the development of Today Tomorrow Together: The Ballarat Strategy, the long term plan for Ballarat to 2040.
Natalie has particular expertise in strategy development to deliver transformational change, facilitation, and strategic and business planning. Natalie’s skills lie in seeing the big picture, translating numbers into strategy and maintaining a focus on achieving the desired outcomes for the project.
Natalie has published internationally on the topic of work life balance and has a keen interest in fostering constructive culture in organisations.
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