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Wendy Chapman speaking at conference

Professor Wendy Chapman
Director, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health

Professor Wendy Chapman is the Associate Dean of Digital Health and Informatics at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. Her interests include biomedical informatics, natural language processing, knowledge representation and application of informatics to clinical care. Wendy is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the US National Academy of Medicine. Within the Centre, Wendy co-leads the Digital Health Validitron workstream.

Centre Team Members

Name Centre RoleTeam Additional external roles
Douglas Boyle Technical Strategy Director Health Informatics & Data Science and Digital Health Innovation Teams  Director of the Research Information Technology Unit, Department of General Practice, UoM
Marc Budge Visiting Clinical Associate Professor   Clinical Director, Integrated Care Services, Bendigo Health
Kara Burns Program Manager- Collective Impact Incubator
Team Leader
Collective Impact Incubator Team  
Jim Buttery Clinical Informatics Director- RCH   Professor of Child Health Informatics, Royal Children’s Hospital
Daniel Capurro Centre Deputy Director
Executive Co-Sponsor: Health Informatics & Data Science and Digital Health Innovation themes
Health Informatics & Data Science and Digital Health Innovation Teams  Senior Lecturer in Digital Health, School of Computing and Information Systems 
Brian Chapman Education & Workforce Development Lead- Medical Education & Workforce Development Team Associate Professor, Health & Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medical Education and School of Computing and Information Systems
Wendy Chapman Centre Director
Executive Co-Sponsor: Digital Health Innovation theme
Executive Sponsor: Collective Impact Incubator
Digital Health Innovation and Collective Impact Incubator Teams  
Oliver Daly Clinical Informatics Associate- Western Health   Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Director of Medical Informatics and Consultant Urogynaecologist and Obstetrician, Western Health
Sathana Dushyanthen Workforce Development Specialist Education & Workforce Development Team  
Tim Fazio Clinical Informatics Associate- RMH   Chief Medical Information Officer, Consultant General and Metabolic Physician, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Anna Fedyukova Data Scientist for Clinical Data Analysis Education & Workforce Development Team  
Cecily Gilbert Research Assistant Collective Impact Incubator Team  
Kathleen Gray Director, Education & Workforce Development
Executive Sponsor: Education & Workforce Development  theme
Education & Workforce Development Team Professor, Health Informatics and Digital Health, School of Computing and Information Systems and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Grahame Grieve Technical Adviser- Interoperability Digital Health Innovation Team Principal at Health Intersections Pty Ltd
Graeme Hart Clinical Informatics Director- Austin Health   Chief Medical Information Officer, Austin Health
Kit Huckvale Research Fellow- Validitron
Team Leader
Digital Health Innovation Team  
Mahima Kalla Research Officer, Participatory Research Digital Health Innovation Team  
Sophie JonesEducation & Workforce Development Lead- NursingEducation & Workforce Development TeamLecturer Nursing
Meredith Layton Senior Lead, Strategy and Engagement Professional staff team  
Alison Lister Enterprise Development Consultant Professional staff team  
Kayley Lyons Education & Workforce Development Lead
Team Leader
Education & Workforce Development Team  
Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis Clinical Informatics Director- General Practice   Associate Professor, Department of General Practice, UoM
Mark Merolli Education & Workforce Development Lead- Allied Health Education & Workforce Development Team Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences
Michelle MunEducation & Workforce Development Lead- DentistryEducation & Workforce Development TeamLecturer Digital Health Transformation Dentistry,
Melbourne Dental School
Victor Pantano Business Development Consultant Digital Health Innovation and Collective Impact Incubator Teams  
Douglas Pires Executive Co-Sponsor: Health Informatics & Data Science workstream Health Informatics & Data Science Team Senior Lecturer in Digital Health, School of Computing and Information Systems 
Megan Prictor Senior Research Fellow, Health & Law Health Informatics and Data Science & Digital Health Innovation Teams  Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School
Frank Smolenaers Technical Adviser- Simulation Lab Digital Health Innovation Team  
Tafheem Wani Technical Support- Victorian Collaborative Healthcare Recovery Initiative Project
          Digital Health Innovation Team

Honorary Centre Members

NamePosition Contact Details
Rajiv JayasenaHonorary Fellowrajiv.jayasena@csiro.au
Lynette Joubert Professorial Fellow ljoubert@unimelb.edu.au
Maureen Turner Honorary Fellowmaureen.turner@biogrid.org.au