Gale Hynes

Murrumbidgee Local Health District

Gale HynesGale has championed the case of those people living with severe and enduring mental illness, those with the poorest life expectancies in our communities, secondary to comorbid physical ill health, and has systematically addressed the many issues which perpetuate this. Gale ensures that systems operate to support the safe and effective prescribing, dispensing and administration of the 'last resort' antipsychotic medication, Clozapine.

Gale has developed and implemented numerous resources, and provided education across the Murrumbidgee Local Health District catchment area to community pharmacists, prescribing GPs, aged care facilities and the non-Government sector.

Dr Jennifer Anne Stevens

St Vincent's Health Network

Jennifer Anne StevensDr Stevens leads numerous successful, inexpensive collaborative programs. Each program demonstrates her ability to bring together disparate groups to deliver positive clinical outcomes, enhanced patient safety and empowered staff. 

Her skill lies in connecting the collection of local baseline data, drawing together the right people across departments, health agencies and pillar organisations, and organising innovative scalable programs. These include:
  • teaching senior emergency department nurses across NSW to perform nerve blocks to reduce delirium rates
  • aiding eHealth NSW in creating a physician-facing audit software tool now available across the state
  • connecting health agencies with surgeons to reduce regional community opioid use.

Susan Woolfenden

The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network

Susan WoolfendenSusan is a dedicated community paediatrician who, for 25 years, has tirelessly championed the importance of early childhood intervention. Determined to address modifiable risk factors, Susan constantly builds new collaborations with researchers, non-government agencies, clinicians, consumers, policy makers and service providers to translate research into action.

Susan is an advocate for equitable access, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and has established new collaborative models of care for children with chronic and complex conditions. Dedicated to tackling the challenges of inequality, Susan's collaborative work has seen health service changes, improving the lives of countless children.
Current as at: Friday 7 September 2018
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