Nursing and Midwifery leadership
Callan Battley
Executive Director of Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Officer
With over 25 years’ experience across public and private healthcare in both clinical and executive roles, Callan has led large, multidisciplinary teams through organisational change, developed whole-of-enterprise workforce strategies, measurably lifted team engagement, and advanced innovation and quality.
His experience spans clinical education, operational clinical leadership, nursing practice strategy, and innovations in models of care. He has a record of building high-performing, large-scale team cultures and implementing industry-benchmark innovations.
Callan has established academic partnerships with multiple universities in nursing education and research, strengthening the pipeline for the future clinical workforce. He holds qualifications in healthcare, leadership and management.
Kate Steen
Director of Clinical Services, Epworth Richmond
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Kate is responsible for nursing and allied health professional practice standards, patient experience, quality of care and the operational management of clinical services at Epworth Richmond.
Prior to joining Epworth, Kate was in leadership roles across both the private and public healthcare sectors, including senior professional and operational leadership roles at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Alfred, Cabrini Health and Austin Health.
Wendy Watson
Director of Clinical Services, Epworth Geelong
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Wendy has more than thirty years’ experience within diverse large complex health organisations in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. She has a particular interest in staff engagement, a proven ability to build and develop team capability, and a passion for high quality care. Wendy is skilled at leading multi-disciplinary teams, managing compliance and implementing change, while driving outcome measured improvements to enhance patient experience.
Lisa Edwards
Director of Clinical Services, Epworth Eastern
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Lisa has been at Epworth for 15 years, joining as Quality Manager at Epworth Eastern in Box Hill, before progressing to lead the organisation through three successful accreditation periods, as the Group Director of Quality. Lisa has been the Director of Clinical Services at Epworth Eastern since 2018, leading the clinical team through $162M redevelopment and expansion of the Box Hill site.
Prior to joining Epworth, Lisa has spent over a decade in nursing leadership, optimising patient care and fostering a supportive work environment focused on clinical safety, patient outcomes and exceptional patient experience.
Suzie Hooper
Director of Clinical Services, Epworth Camberwell
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Suzie is a Registered Nurse with extensive experience in ICU / CCU, cardiac, pulmonary, general rehabilitation, nurse education and project management. She has held a variety of clinical and management roles in the healthcare sector, including Nurse Manager, Director of Nursing and CEO.
Suzie holds a Master of Nursing Leadership and she is passionate about nursing research and nurse-led models of care.
Rennie Fotopoulos
Director of Clinical and Maternity Services, Epworth Freemasons
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Rennie Fotopoulos has extensive experience in Senior and Executive Management across Acute and Sub-Acute private healthcare settings. Rennie’s portfolios include managing clinical and operational budgets, supporting workforce models which put the ‘patient at the centre of everything we do’ and building teams to create positive culture within the organisation. As a credentialed researcher, Rennie has a passion for clinical governance and quality improvement of systems and processes. Rennie seeks to ensure that frameworks are in place to ensure patient safety and to improve patient outcomes.
Phillipa Utting
Group Director Clinical Workforce
Email: [email protected]Phillipa is focused on leading the development of sustainability, continuity and agility in the clinical workforce at Epworth, to meet current and future demand, for nursing, midwifery and allied health.
Phillipa is a Registered Nurse with a clinical background in ED, ICU, cardio-thoracics and remote rural nursing. Phillipa has worked across all sectors, including healthcare (human and veterinary), social insurance, vocational rehabilitation, group training and labour hire, nursing workforce and strategic projects in Tasmania and Victoria.
Nicole Argall
Group Director Clinical Education and Dean Nursing Academy
Email: [email protected]Nicole has over 20 years experience in clinical education, leadership, and management roles. She is also a Critical Care trained Registered Nurse, with a Master in Health Science. Nicole joined Epworth following a secondment to the Department of Health, where she was responsible for securing $270M to support nursing and midwifery training across the Victorian public health sector with the ‘Making it Free to Study Nursing and Midwifery’ program. She has also advocated on critical issues affecting the future of the health workforce.
Nicole brings with her a passion for leading a highly skilled professional nursing and midwifery workforce and she is committed to evidence-based best practice and excellence in patient experience and outcomes.
Lauren Lawlor
Group Director Clinical Services
Email: [email protected]Lauren’s portfolio includes policy management, infection prevention and control (IPAC) and consumer partnerships. As an experienced clinical pharmacist, improvement coach and health care leader, Lauren is passionate about collaborative care delivery and ensuring the patient voice is central to everything we do at Epworth.