The HISA Board directs the affairs of HISA Ltd. The Board is supported in day to day management by the HISA National Office staff. For email contact with a HISA Board Director, click on the links below.

Board Members - Executive

HISA President Michael Legg

Michael Legg BSc(Hons) MCom PhD FAICD FAIM FACHI MACS(PCP) is Principal of Michael Legg and Associates, a consultancy in Information and Organisational Systems. He has more than 20 years experience in senior positions in the health industry. Before establishing ML&A he was Director Developments for Pathology, with what was then Australia's largest private health care group, Mayne, and before that General Manager of Southern Pathology, winners of the Australian Quality Award for Business Excellence. He has been involved for many years in health informatics standards setting with Standards Australia and HL7 and has served on many National Committees including the National Health Information Standards Advisory Committee and the Australian Health Information Council's subcommittee for Electronic Decision Support.

Special Responsibilities

• HISA Chairman
• Leader, Pathology and Bio-informatics Special Interest Group
• Chairman, HIC'08 - The Person at the Centre
  

HISA Vice-President Jon Hilton

Jon supports a whole of health approach to the use of information in promotion, prevention, education and planned intervention, and works with people to demonstrate that ICT can assist in engaging clients with their own care and enabling providers to support them. He is also working on ICT solutions that will enable funders to assure value for money with minimal interference in service delivery.

Experience

• 20 years in health infomatics
• 10 years independent consulting to private and public healthcare organisations. Clients include General Practitioners, most Melbourne Metropolitan Health Services and Community Health Centres.

• Director, Project Net Pty Ltd., Board Member (Uniting Care Community Options, Victoria)

HISA Secretary Marcus Wise

Works with the Tasmanian health department as senior informatics consultant in primary health. Semi-retired and devoting more time to several voluntary projects in Burundi and Uganda. Winner of the inaugural (2006) Don Walker award for improving access to health care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Diploma in Nursing Education, Bachelor of Arts (Humanities), Graduate Diploma of Computing, Fellow of the College of Nursing
• Justice of the Peace (Tasmania)

Experience

• Member of HISA for 15 years. Board member 7 years

Special responsibilities

• HISA Board secretary
• Treaurer - Medinfo 2007

HISA Treasurer Marie Cameron

Qualifications:

• BA (Psychology), MSc Health Policy & Management RN, RM, FPC
  

Experience

• 15 years Senior Mgt/ CEO Disability Services organisations
• 16 years Senior Mgt/ Information Systems Support (including introduction/ management/ analysis of multiple informatics projects) primarily Rehabilitation related
  

Special responsibilities

• HISA NSW branch representative, Secretary HISA NSW

Board Members

Melanie Cox

We will get some text online about Melanie soon.

Peter Croll

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons), PhD, FACS, FBCS CITP, CEng

Experience

• 30 years in Software Engineering of critical ICT systems in both industry and academia with the past 7 years focussing on Health
  Infomatics research.
• University professor 8 years to include responsibilities as a director of research institute (TITR), a
  research centres (CITI) and as Head of School (SITACS)

Special responsibilities

• Chair of HISA's special interest group: Health Infomatics Privacy and Security (HIPS)

Nilva Egana

Qualifications

• Dip App Sc ( Nursing), MPH&TM, MHSc ( Health Informatics)

Experience

• 20 years in the acute and public health sector in NSW, Vic, NT and abroad. Worked in the NT since 1992.  
• Health informatics experience since 1998.
• Currently a Fellow in the Victorian Public Health Training Scheme which has provided insight into informatics requirements in the public health/research and community/welfare sector.

Nilva has worked in the health sector for 20 years. She was introduced to the wonders of databases in 1996 as a public health nurse in the Northern Territory. She is currently a Victorian Public Health Training Scheme Fellow interested in having the disciplines of public health and health informatics work together for important work such as 'closing the gap' in Australian society and for the control of communicable diseases. Qualifications: Dip.App.Sc(Nursing)RN, MPH&TM (JCU), MHSc-Health Informatics (University Of Sydney)

Stuart Hope

Qualifications

• BSc(Hons) MSc MIEEE, MACM, Comp IEAUST

Experience

• Three decades of experience in the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) industry. He has equally served large corporations,
  government and start-up companies developing and managing both large and small scale software systems.
• Stuart is Managing Director of AutumnCare Systems, a software company specialising in leading edge enterprise scale clinical solutions for the aged care sector.

Special responsibilities

• Representative of the WA Branch of HISA

Other Directorships held

• Spiral Technology Pty Ltd;
• Unleashed Technology (Aust) Ltd

Joan Edgecumbe

Qualifications

• RN RM Diploma Nursing Admin

Experience

• Clinical tertiary health practice 16 years
• Health services management 16 years
• Private practice consultant 4 years
• Executive management of a professional national society 10 years 

Other Directorships held

• Littlefish Pty Ltd
• Infornomics Pty Ltd

George Margelis

Qualifications

• MBBS M.Optom GCEBUS

Experience

• 20 years health care provider, optometrist, and medical practitioner. Company director since 1991.

Other Directorships held

• Company Director Sarwax Pty Ltd

Gary Morgan

Qualifications

• MBA and a Graduate Diploma from Queensland University of Technology
• Bachelor of Commerce degree from Griffith University

Experience

• more than 25 years experience in business development and commercialisation of technology research and product development in public and private sectors
• 2004-Present Chief Executive, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia  
• 2007-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences,The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Conjoint)  
• 2001-2003   President & Chief Executive Officer, Wedgetail Communications Incorporated, San Francisco, USA  
• 2000-2003   Chief Executive Officer and Director, Wedgetail Communications Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia  
• 1996-1999   Queensland State Manager, Tandem Computer, Compaq Computer (Hewlett Packard), Brisbane, Australia

Science Citizenship

• 2008-Present  Board Member, Health Informatics Society of Australia,Ltd
• 2008-Present  Member, Standards Australia IT-014 Health Informatics Committee
• 2007-Present  Member, Cancer Australia National Data Strategy Advisory Group

Gary Morgan is the founding CEO of The Australian e-Health Research Centre, a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government.
Established in 2003, The Australian e-Health Research Centre is a leading national research facility in ICT for healthcare innovations.

Prior to this, he was the founding CEO and President of Wedgetail Communications, a spin-off company from the CRC for Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC). Wedgetail's identity management solutions were deployed in leading global financial services firms, technology corporations and government agencies. Gary Morgan has more than 25 years experience in business development and commercialisation of technology research and product development in public and private sectors.

Gary holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment with the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia, Ltd. Gary is also a member of the Cancer Australia National Data Strategy Advisory Group and the Standards Australia IT-014 Health Informatics committee.

A member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Gary Morgan has a MBA and a Graduate Diploma from Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Griffith University.

Board Work Plan

The board meets at least 4 times per year and its activities are detailed in its annual work plan. You can download the workplan by clicking here