The Melbourne Health Board comprises up to nine independent non-Executive Directors.
Directors are elected for a term of up to three years, and may be re-elected to serve for up to nine years. The Board is accountable to the Minister for Health and Human Services.
Robert Doyle was elected in 2008 and 2012, and is the serving Lord Mayor of Melbourne.
Robert Doyle is a Principal at The Nous Group, a management consultancy business based in Melbourne and, since 2007, has been Chairman of Melbourne Health (The Royal Melbourne Hospital).
Robert is President of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Chairman of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Foundation and a Trustee of the Shrine of Remembrance. Robert is also an Ambassador for Odyssey House, a drug and alcohol abuse rehabilitation facility, an Ambassador for SecondBite, a not-for profit organisation committed to making a positive difference by distributing fresh food to the disadvantaged and homeless, an ex-officio member of Cancer Council Victoria and an Ambassador for Field of Women, a charity raising awareness of breast cancer, an Ambassador for the White Ribbon Day Foundation, an international day for the elimination of violence against women, an Ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Honorary President of the Melbourne Region of the Scout Association and a Board member of the Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre (PICAC) Ltd.
In 2010 Robert was made a Fellow of Monash University.
Robert recently joined the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA) as a committee member.
A Member of Victoria’s Parliament for 14 years, Robert was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Liberal Party for four years. He has also been Shadow Minister for Health and, in government, Parliamentary Secretary for Health.
Mr Doyle was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in July 2007.
Eugene Arocca graduated from Monash University in 1983 with degrees in Jurisprudence and Law. In the same year, he started employment with Maurice Blackburn and was appointed partner at the firm in 1990. In 1996 he was appointed lawyer for the Collingwood Football Club where he also acted as a board member from 2002 - 2005.
In late 2005, he retired from both Maurice Blackburn as a senior partner and as a Collingwood board member to become Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Counsel for the Club. During that time, he oversaw the club’s growing interests in external and non-football commercial operations.
In January, 2008 he left Collingwood to accept the position of CEO of the North Melbourne Football Club. He drove a number of historic and important initiatives during his time as CEO, including the development of "The Huddle" - an innovative community and education facility operated by the football club, which won a Premier’s Award for Excellence in 2012 and the Australian Migration Council’s Award for Sports Leadership in 2013.
Mr Arocca resigned from North Melbourne in mid-2012 and started as CEO of Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) in October 2012.
Eugene is an ambassador for the White Ribbon Foundation, an ambassador for the Jodi Lee Foundation and was an Australia Day Ambassador in 2011. He is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Since 2014, Eugene has been a non-executive director of Western Leisure Services Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Wyndham City Council, responsible for the management of three key leisure facilities within the municipality, including indoor and outdoor aquatic centres and an indoor sports stadium.
Mr Arocca was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in 2016.
Jane Bell is a banking and finance lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in leading law firms, financial services and corporate treasury operations gained living in Melbourne, London, Toronto, San Francisco and Brisbane.
Jane currently serves on the Board of UCA Funds Management Limited and its subsidiaries, Biomedical Research Victoria as the Independent Chair of the Community Advisory Committee of the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and as an independent member of the Audit Committee of The Salvation Army. Jane is a former Board member of WorkSafe Victoria, Australian Red Cross (Queensland), Monash Institute of Medical Research, Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Victorian Women’s Housing Association and Deputy Chair of Westernport Water Corporation.
Jane holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Economics from Monash University and a Master of Laws from Kings College, London and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Jane was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in July 2009 and serves on its Audit and Risk Committee, Remuneration Committee and Chairs the Community Advisory Committee.
Mrs Bell was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in July 2009.
Michael Gorton AM is a Partner in a Melbourne law firm, Russell Kennedy Solicitors. He is also Chair of the Agency Management Committee of AHPRA and a Board member of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Melbourne Primary Care Network. He has had government roles, including Chair, VEOHRC; President of the Health Services Review Council; Chair of the Biotechnology Ethics Advisory Committee and Chair of the Infertility Treatment Authority. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Monash Institute for Medical Research; National President of Greening Australia and inaugural Co-Chair of Reconciliation Victoria Inc. Michael advises many of the Australasian medical colleges, and for his work was awarded Honorary Fellowships with Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and was made a Member in the Order of Australia in 2004 for his community contribution.
Mr Gorton was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in July 2008
Penny’s career began in chartered accountancy, in England, before she migrated to Australia in 1983. Penny was a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Premier and Cabinet from 2000-15, primarily as Director Arts Victoria, also acting in other Deputy Secretary roles and serving on secondment to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.
At BDO, Penny led the consulting division which focused on a core client base across many portfolios in the Victorian Public Sector – including health, transport, treasury, environment and community services. Before that, she was a senior policy officer at the Department of Management and Budget and the National Companies and Securities Commission.
From 1985 to 1993, Penny tutored in accounting at Ormond College, University of Melbourne and from 1980 to 1993 she also held the position of Director of Studies for Commerce.
Penny has served on various boards, including Medibank Private, Swanston Trams, Federal Airports Corporation, Victorian Rehabilitation Services Pty Ltd, the Victorian Council of Social Service, the Victorian College of the Arts and Monash University.
From 2005-11 Penny was a member of the Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and was Chair in 2009.
Penny has a degree in German and Music from the University of London. She has a diploma of music performance in the clarinet, a Masters in Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a graduate of the Institute of Company Directors.
Angela is an experienced public sector economist with 15 years of experience, including as an economic adviser in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Deputy Chief of Staff to Australia’s Finance Minister. In 2011, Angela completed her Masters in International Health Policy (Health Economics) with Distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Angela is currently undertaking a PhD in health economics at the Monash University Centre for Health Economics, alongside looking after her two young children.
Ms Jackson was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in September 2015.
Jennifer was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in 2016. She has qualifications in law, education and arts.
Jennifer is the Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. In this role she is responsible for ensuring that the legal team deliver quality legal advice and services to people seeking asylum. She also drives ASRC campaigns that aim to ensure that people seeking asylum are treated with fairness and humanity.
Jennifer was a City of Melbourne Councillor from 2008 – 2012 where she held the portfolio areas of community services and arts and culture. From 2012 – 2014, Jennifer was the State Member for Melbourne, she held the positions of Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Mental Health and was Deputy Chair of the Victorian Parliament’s Accountability and Oversight Committee and Independent Broad-based Anti Corruption Committee.
Jennifer was in private legal practice where her practice areas were employment, industrial relations and anti-discrimination law. She was also a secondary school teacher and senior school coordinator.
Jennifer is also currently a director at Victorian Legal Aid. She has previously been a director of Housing Choices Australia and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Prof Shitij Kapur, FRCPC, PhD, FMedSci is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health), University of Melbourne. Shitij is a clinician-scientist with expertise in psychiatry, neuroscience and brain imaging. He trained as a Psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and undertook a PhD and Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, similarly Board Certified in Canada and has a specialist medical license in the United Kingdom.
Prof Kapur’s former position was Executive Dean Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (loPPN) Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (loPPN) (2010-2016). The 'Institute', also known as the 'the Maudsley', is Europe's largest and leading centre for mental health research and was established nearly a 100 years ago. Under Shitij’s leadership the Institute grew to where it now has over 300 FTE academic faculty, over 1000 research staff, nearly 800 post-graduate students, and an annual turnover of about £110M with over £50M annual research turnover.
Prior to this role, Shitij was Vice-President (Research) for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Toronto (2003-07). CAMH is both a large hospital and university affiliated research institute and is Canada's premier centre for research into mental health and addictions. In 2007, he was recruited to lead the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London, and after a spell as Vice-Dean Research (2008-09) assumed the role of Dean in 2010.
Prof Kapur’s main research interest is in understanding Schizophrenia and its treatment. He has used brain imaging, animals models and clinical studies which have led to a better understanding of antipsychotic action, its relationship to brain dopamine receptor blockade, the role of appropriate dosing of these drugs and has led to the development of the ‘salience’ framework of psychosis and the ‘early onset’ hypothesis if antipsychotic action. He is now working on how ‘biomarkers’ might be best incorporated into psychiatric care and drug development.
Shitij has published 300 peer-reviewed papers, his work has received over 25,000 citations as he has made numerous presentations worldwide. He serves in advisory capacity to public charities and pharmaceutical companies and has received national and international awards including the AE Bennett Award of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, Paul Janssen Award of the CINP. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK, and Fellow of King’s College London, UK. He led NEWMEDS, an EU-wide Innovative Medicines Initiative and currently leads STRATA, a UK-wide program to enhance stratified medicine strategies in psychiatry.
Prof Kapur was appointed to the Board in December 2016
Greg is a very experienced Victorian public sector manager with nearly 40 years experience in a variety of Victorian public sector organisations.
Greg was a former director and Chief Executive of Worksafe Victoria 2003 - 2012. He has held senior management and financial positions in the Transport Accident Commission (TAC), the Victorian Workcover Authority, Public Transport Authority, State Transit Authority (V/Line) and the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works.
He is currently a non-executive director of Dorsavi Ltd. He was previously a director and chairman of the Victorian Trauma Foundation, director of the Personal Injury Education Foundation, director of the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority, chair of the Heads of Workers Compensation Authorities for Australian and New Zealand and the member representing Victoria on SafeWork Australia and its predecessor bodies.
In 2015, he was independent chair of a ministerial inquiry into the use of chemical substances by employees of the former Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey.
Greg has a commerce degree from University of Melbourne, is a CPA and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Directors
Mr Tweedly was appointed to the Melbourne Health Board in 2016.
