Board of Management
Epworth is led by a Board of Management whose operations are defined by the Epworth Foundation Act 1980 (Vic). The Board meets monthly to direct and advise on the high-level operations of Epworth.
Led by Ms Janet Latchford, the Board has focused on ensuring the group has the systems, structures and strategy to meet its objectives.
Ms Janet Latchford (President)
B Com (The University of Melbourne), FCPA, GAICD
Non-Executive Member
Ms Latchford has been a member of the Epworth HealthCare Board of Management since 2005 and was elected President of the board in 2011, having served as Deputy President from 2007. She is a member of the Patient Care, Finance, Board Audit and Compliance, and Remuneration Committees.
Ms Latchford has extensive experience at a senior executive level across a range of industries and international businesses, including Fosters Group and Carlton and United Breweries, where she held responsibilities for Finance, Administration and IT. She is a Council member of RMIT University and member of the Nominations and Governance Committee and the Audit and Risk Committee, and is a Board member of the RMIT University Foundation.
Ms Latchford has held the position of President of the Corporate Taxation Association and is a former chair of Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia, a national youth mentoring organization, and has also worked as a volunteer school mentor for the Ardoch Foundation.
Dr Philip Williams (Deputy President) MEc PhD
Non-Executive Member
President of the Epworth HealthCare Board of Management from 2007 to 2011, Dr Williams was deputy president from 2004 to 2006 and has been a member of the Board since 2002. He is also a member of the Finance, Patient Care, Major Property Development and Procurement, and Audit and Compliance Committees.
Dr Williams has been the Executive Chairman of Frontier Economics (Australia) since 2002. Prior to that, he was Professor of Law and Economics and Academic Dean at Melbourne Business School (University of Melbourne). He is a member of the Trade Practices Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Prof Peter Brooks, M.B.,B.S. (Monash), 1967 M.D. (Monash), 1977 F.R.A.C.P., 1975 F.A.F.R.M., 1992 F.A.F.P.H.M., 1992 MD Hon. Causa (Lund), 1997 F.R.C.P. (Edin), 1998 F.R.C.P. (Glas), 2005
Non-Executive Member
Peter Brooks is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Queensland. He has held previous posts as Professor of Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney (University of New South Wales) and was the Foundation Professor of Rheumatology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He completed his medical training at Monash University in Melbourne and then studied rheumatology under Professor Watson Buchanan in Glasgow.
Professor Brooks has published widely in the area of treatment and outcomes in arthritis and also has an interest in psychological aspects of rheumatology. Professor Brooks continues to serve on a number of editorial boards of international rheumatology journals and is involved with OMERACT, ILAR and the Bone and Joint Decade.
Mr Anthony Browne BA LLB (Hons)
Non-Executive Member
Mr Browne was appointed to the Epworth HealthCare Board of Management in 1999 and is also a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Major Property Development and Procurement Committee.
Mr Browne began his career at legal firm Allens Arthur Robinsons in 1961 and became partner in 1968. He has extensive experience in commercial law and has focused on natural resources and infrastructure projects and companies.
Throughout his career Mr Browne has been the director of Melbourne Water Corporation, a founding member of the Law Council Australia's Business Law Section, a member of the Commercial Law and Stamp Duties committees of the Law Institute of Victoria; and a consultant to the Victorian Law Reform Advisory Council and Department of Justice.
Mr Rod Fitzroy
Non-Executive Member
Mr Fitzroy was appointed to the Board of Management in 2008 and is a member of the Major Property Development and Procurement Committee.
In 1973, Rod Fitzroy founded Fitzroys, which today is a multi-disciplinary property agency based in Collins Street, Melbourne. Mr Fitzroy is a Fellow of the Real Estate Institute of Australia and an Associate of the Australian Property Institute.
Mr Fitzroy is the immediate past Chairman of the Victoria Racing Club, where he served as a Director for 19 years. In 2008, The Australian Institute of Export awarded Mr Fitzroy an Institute Export Hero Award.
For over 20 years, Mr Fitzroy has been a member of the Epworth Medical Foundation and currently holds the position of Vice-Chairman.
Mr Peter Hay LLB
Non-Executive Member
Peter Hay is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Lazard in Australia. Previously Peter was National Chief Executive Officer of Freehills from 2000, and before that was Chairman of the Melbourne partnership from 1994. Under Mr Hay’s leadership, Freehills became nationally integrated and established a clear market leadership position in Australian legal services.
Before his CEO role at Freehills Mr Hay practised in company law and had particular expertise in public company takeovers. Peter spent much of the period 1993-1999 advising governments and government-owned enterprises on industry reform and preparing for and implementing energy sector privatisations.
Mr Hay is a director of Alumina Limited, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, GUD Holdings Ltd, Landcare Australia Limited, Myer Holdings Ltd and NBN Co Ltd and has held a number of other directorships in the corporate and not-for-profit sector.
Mr Alan Kinkade
Executive Member and Group Chief Executive
Mr Kinkade was appointed by the Epworth HealthCare Board of Management in 2007. Mr Kinkade is a member of the Finance, Audit and Compliance, Patient Care and the Human Research Ethics Committees.
Mr Kinkade has extensive senior management experience in the health sector. Throughout his career, Mr Kinkade has served on many industry bodies and is currently a Board Member of the Australian Private Hospitals Association.
Ms Judy Leitch, BSc (Hons) MPsych, MBA, MAICD, AFAIM
Non-Executive Member
Appointed to the Board of Management in 2008, Judy currently chairs the Patient Care Committee and is also on the Board Audit and Compliance Committee. She previously served as a non-executive director on the Boards of Western Health and Methodist Ladies College.
Judy’s professional background is in clinical psychology and she has extensive experience in the delivery and management of human services. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Coroners Court of Victoria. Her previous management roles include Chief Executive Officer of Wesley Mission Melbourne, Director of Human Services at the Glen Eira City Council, Director of Services at Relationships Australia (Vic), and Regional Manager of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry Services for the Department of Health.
The Rev Professor Christiaan Mostert
BA (Tas), BD (MCD), MA (Cantab), PhD (Syd)
Chris Mostert joined the Epworth Board in 2011. He is a minister of the Uniting Church with more than 40 years of experience in ministry: in congregations, in missionary service overseas and in theological and ministerial education. He has been Professor of Systematic Theology in the Uniting Church Theological College, Melbourne, for 16 years and before that in the United Theological College, Sydney.
He has worked in inter-church dialogue at national level for many years and has been President of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools and of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He chairs the Association that publishes the Australian theological journal, Pacifica. He is a member of the Council of Ormond College and chairs He has edited and written several books and had essays published in a range of theological journals.
Epworth Executive
The Epworth Executive team represents each operating and corporate division. The Executive guides and directs the operations of the organisation to ensure its strategic goals are met and to help the organisation grow.
Mr Alan Kinkade
Group Chief Executive
Mr Kinkade was appointed by the Epworth HealthCare Board of Management in 2007.
Mr Kinkade is a member of the Finance Committee, Audit and Compliance Committee, Patient Care Committee and the Human Research & Ethics Committee.
Mr Kinkade has extensive senior management experience in the health sector. Throughout his career, Mr Kinkade has served on many industry bodies and is currently a Board Member on the Australian Private Hospitals Association.
Mr Damian Armour
BCom (Deakin), MBA (Deakin), ACA, FAICD
Executive Director, Epworth Freemasons
Mr Armour joined Epworth Healthcare in June 2007 as the Executive Director Freemasons Hospital after almost 10 years at Barwon Health. He has a management background having worked with Arthur Andersen and KPMG in management consulting roles prior to joining Barwon Health in 1998.
At Barwon Health Mr Armour was the General Manager Surgical Services where he was responsible for Intensive Care, Operating Services, Outpatients, Anaesthetics and the various surgical specialities including General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Oral Faciomaxilary Surgery, ENT, Paediatric Surgery, Urology and Cardio Thoracic Surgery. Mr Armour is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.
Mr Vincent Borg
MBA, Ass. Dip. Business (Acc)
Executive Director, Epworth Eastern
Vincent Borg was appointed as the Executive Director at Epworth Eastern in November 2007, having been employed at the Richmond campus since 2002. Mr. Borg has been engaged in the private health sector since February 1979 initially with St. Vincent's Private Hospital (Melbourne).
He has been worked in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, as well as the acute and psychiatric services. Previous General Manager roles have been at North West Private Hospital in Burnie and Victoria House Private Hospital through to its transition to Victoria Clinic.
Ms Liz Camilleri
B.Bus, CPA
Executive Director, Finance
Ms Camilleri joined Epworth HealthCare in 1990 in Finance and Payroll. From 2002 to 2004 she held the position of Hospitality Services Manager Epworth Richmond and saw the successful return to in-house provision of services previously outsourced to Spotless.
Ms Camilleri was an inaugural employee of Epworth Eastern where she was Business Manager from 2004 to 2009 and was fundamental in establishing the 223 bed private hospital. She was appointed as Executive Director, Finance in December 2008.
Ms Camilleri is Treasurer of the Board of the Whitehorse Business Group.
Dr Peter J Dohrmann
MBBS FRACS GradDipOccEnvH
Group Executive Medical Director
Appointed Executive Medical Director of Epworth Hospital in 2002, Dr Dohrmann is also a member of the Group Medical Advisory Council and the Patient Care Committee. Dr Dohrmann studied medicine at Monash University, graduating in 1977. He trained in neurosurgery at the Alfred Hospital. Overseas neurosurgery training included a 12 month term in 1984 at the University of Texas, specialising in trauma and cerebrovascular neurosurgery. In 1985 he worked in London as a neurosurgery registrar at The London Hospital and at The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street.
From 1986 until 2010, Mr Dohrmann was in private practice in neurosurgery at Epworth, and has held senior appointments at a number of Melbourne's teaching hospitals, including the Alfred Hospital and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. After several years as half-time Executive Medical Director, Dr Dohrmann became full-time in July 2010.
Dr Dohrmann leads Epworth’s teaching hospital initiatives and is responsible for the coordination of clinical governance activities at Epworth.
Mr Chris England
AHA (UK), MIPM (UK)
Executive Director, Human Resources
Mr England joined Epworth HealthCare as executive director of Human Resources in September 2008. Chris has had an extensive career in health administration and human resource management in both the UK and Australia.
His roles in Australia have involved leading the Human Resources functions at The Austin Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Bayside Health and Peninsula Health and include site management responsibilities for Caulfield Hospital and Rosebud Hospital.
Mr England is a Chartered Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute, and is currently on the Board of the Mayfield Centre Board of Studies. He has previously sat on the Board of the Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association, the Australian College of Healthcare Human Resources Administration, the Eltham Community Health Centre and the Community Services & Health Industry Training Board.
Mrs Bronwyn Mace
RN B AppSci AdvNsg (Ed) Grad Cert ICU/CCU
Executive Director, Epworth Rehabilitation
Mrs Mace has been employed and contributed to the field of rehabilitation for over 30 years. Mrs Mace began her career at Austin Hospital within the Victorian Spinal Cord Injuries Service and commenced employment at Epworth HealthCare in 2001. She has held a variety of positions in both clinical and managerial capacities all related to the specialty of rehabilitation.
Mrs Mace serves as Victorian representative on the Consultative Committee on Private Rehabilitation and APHA National Private Rehabilitation Group.
Mr James Piplios
Executive Director, Procurement and Facilities
James Piplios was appointed Executive Director of Procurement and Facilities in 2008. Mr Piplios has extensive commercial experience within the health industry. His career has also seen him work in the oil and gas, aviation and power generation industries.
Prior to joining Epworth Mr Piplios held key roles including Director of Sales and Marketing and Business Development and Director of Operations for a health industry product supplier.
Mrs Deborah Stephenson
BSC Dip Diet, Grad Dip Acc
Executive Director, Health Contracts
Mrs Stephenson joined Epworth HealthCare as Executive Director Health Contracts in December 2008.
She has worked in public and private hospitals for most of her career commencing as a dietitian and then moving into finance and health fund negotiating. Prior to joining Epworth HealthCare Mrs Stephenson worked for a major health fund in a contract management role.
Ms Susan Wardle
BA, Grad Dip Spec Ed., Grad Dip Bus. (HR), MBA
Executive Director, Marketing and Business Development
Ms Wardle was appointed Executive Director of Marketing and Business Development in 2007. She has a broad career across the not-for-profit and commercial sectors in strategic planning, marketing and fundraising.
Prior to joining Epworth HealthCare Ms Wardle was Director of St. Vincent's Foundation incorporating the Foundation's Marketing and Communications.
Ms Eileen Hannagan
B.Bus, B.Sci, Post Grad in Health (Honours)
Executive Director, Epworth Richmond Acute
Ms Hannagan joined Epworth HealthCare in 2009. She joined Epworth with a strong career history in healthcare management across the private, public and not-for-profit hospital sectors. For the past 7 years she has been the Director of Clinical Operations/Chief Operating Officer for St Vincents and Mercy Private in Melbourne.
Ms Maureen Willson
Executive Director, Quality, Productivity Improvement and Risk
Ms Willson joined Epworth HealthCare in March 2009.
She has held a number of senior appointments including DHS Clinical Risk Manager, Manager Victorian Quality Council, Manager of the DHS Anaesthetic and Surgical Consultative Councils and State Clinical Risk Manager for the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority.
Dr Megan Robertson
Executive Director, Research
Dr Megan Robertson is an Intensive Care physician, and passionate critical care researcher. Megan is the inaugural Executive Director of Research at Epworth HealthCare, head of the Clinical Trials and Research Centre and member of the Board of the Epworth Research Institute.
Dr Robertson is an intensive care physician and she has been extensively involved in clinical research in intensive care medicine for almost 20 years. As Executive Director of Research, she provides leadership for research across the Epworth HealthCare group ensuring that Epworth clinicians and patients are able to participate in world-leading and innovative research, and that new therapeutic options are incorporated into clinical practice.
Ms Elizabeth Kennedy
Corporate Counsel
Ms Kennedy was appointed as Epworth’s first in-house lawyer in December 2009. She has been a lawyer for over thirty years and has had wide experience in dealing with hospitals and health practitioners and the issues arising from the delivery of health services.
Previously Ms Kennedy has been in-house lawyer at Southern Health, Women’s and Children’s Health, The Royal Children’s Hospital and The Royal Women’s Hospital. She has worked as the in-house lawyer at the AMA Victoria and chairs the Appeal Committee of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and sits on the Investigations Committee of the Nurses Board of Victoria and the performance panel of the Dental Practice Board. Ms Kennedy also tutors and lectures in health and medical law at Monash University.
Mr Allan Boston
Executive Director Special Projects
Appointed in January 2011, Allan has more than 18 years senior management experience in the private hospital sector across Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania to complement his earlier career as a hospital pharmacist in Victoria.
His previous roles have included Executive Director Melbourne Services for St John of God Health Care and Chief Executive Officer of Calvary Health Care Tasmania. During his career, Allan has held Board appointments to a number of industry related organisations including the Australian Centre for Health Research, the Australian Private Hospitals Association and the St John of God Hauora Trust (New Zealand).
Mr Scott Bulger
BA Politics (La Trobe) Hon
Executive Director, Epworth Medical Foundation
Mr Bulger joined Epworth HealthCare as the Executive Director of the Epworth Medical Foundation in January 2012.
He has extensive senior leadership experience in development, advancement and fundraising across both the private and not-for-profit sectors. Before joining Epworth he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Development & External Relations) at Bond University; and for close to 10 years, he led ChildFund International’s fundraising programs while based out of the USA.
Mr Bulger is a former Board Member and Trustee of the Perry Cross Spinal Research Foundation, Executive Committee Member (Gold Coast) of the Fundraising Institute of Australia, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Management, and the Institute of Fundraising (UK).