Our Executive team
Chief Executive

Dr Teresa Anderson AM
FIPAA, B.App Science (Speech Pathology) PhD
Dr Teresa Anderson is the Chief Executive of Sydney Local Health District, one of the leading public health services in Australia. She has more than 35 years of experience as a clinician and health service executive. She has a well-established reputation for implementing strategies to foster innovation and best practice, supporting collaboration and building partnerships, to provide excellent healthcare to almost 700,000 people living within Sydney Local Health District and the million people who come into the District each day to work, study and visit.
Dr Anderson is a Speech Pathologist, internationally recognised for her specialist knowledge and skills in the research, assessment and management of paediatric and adult dysphagia, early communication development, early childhood development and early intervention.
In the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Dr Anderson was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to community health and to public administration in New South Wales as a clinician, manager and health service executive.
She continues to develop programs and services to support and improve the health and wellbeing of all people in the community.
Dr Anderson is a Vice President and has been made a Fellow of the NSW Institute of Public Administration Australia, a member of seven Medical Research, Health and PHN boards and is an active member of the Sydney Health Partners Governing Council and Executive Management Group, one of the first four centres in Australia designated by NHMRC as an Advanced Health Research Translation Centre.
Our Executive Team
Chief Executive | Dr Teresa Anderson AM |
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Executive Director Operations |
Dr Genevieve Wallace |
Executive Director Clinical Services Integration and Population Health |
Lou-Anne Blunden |
Executive Director Finance |
Puneet Datta |
Executive Director Clinical Governance, Risk and Medical Services |
Dr Andrew Hallahan |
Executive Director Nursing and Midwifery Services |
Ivanka Komusanac |
Executive Director Workforce and Corporate Operations |
Gina Finocchiaro |
Executive Director Capital Infrastructure and Engineering |
Jon Gowdy |
Executive Director Sydney Innovation Precinct for Health Education and Research & Sydney Research |
Adjunct Associate Professor Vicki Taylor |
Chief Information Officer and Director Digital Health and Innovation |
Richard Taggart |
Director Aboriginal Health |
George Long |
Director Allied Health and Chief Allied Health Information Officer |
Sarah Whitney |
Director Strategic Relations |
Corryn McKay |
Chief of Staff |
Hannah Storey |
Director Internal Audit | Fleur Harriton |
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Director Communication |
Sara Everingham |
Acting Director Media |
David Meadows |
Director Partnerships |
John O’Grady |
Acting Director Performance Monitoring Systems Improvement and Innovation |
Lorraine Ho |
Director Pharmacy and Chief Pharmacy Information Officer |
Rosemary Burke |
Director Planning |
Pam Garrett |
Director Strategic Health Sourcing |
Maria Kokkinakos |
Director Sydney Education |
Lesley Innes |
Director Surgical Program and Academia |
Dr Kate McBride |
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General Manager Balmain Hospital |
Greg Nolan |
General Manager Canterbury Hospital |
Michael Morris |
Acting General Manager Concord Hospital |
Joseph Jewitt |
General Manager Royal Prince Alfred Hospital |
Kiel Harvey |
General Manager RPA Virtual Hospital |
Miranda Shaw |
Acting General Manager Mental Health Services |
Jay Jiang |
Sydney Dental Hospital and Oral Health Services |
Jason Cheng |
General Manager Community Health |
Dianna Jagers |
General Manager Community Health Centres Croydon, Marrickville, Redfern, RPA HealthOne |
Madeleine Kitchener |
General Manager Drug Health |
Judy Pearson |
General Manager Population Health |
Renee Moreton |
General Manager Public Health |
Dr George Johnson |
Aged Health, Rehabilitation and Chronic Care |
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Clinical Director |
Clinical Associate Professor John Cullen |
Deputy Clinical Director |
Professor Ian Caterson |
Clinical Manager |
Debra Donnelly |
Operations Manager |
Julie-Ann O’Keeffe |
Anaesthetics and Pain |
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Clinical Director |
Dr Michael Paleologos |
Operations Manager |
Cindy Wong |
Cancer Services and Palliative Care |
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Clinical Director |
Clinical Associate Professor Ilona Cunningham |
Deputy Clinical Director |
Associate Professor Ghauri Aggarwal |
Clinical Manager |
Anne Lofaro, Acting Manager Sarah O’Shannassy |
Cardiovascular |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Len Kritharides |
Deputy Clinical Director Cardiovascular |
Dr Tristan Yan |
Operations Manager |
Karla Fedel |
Drug Health |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Paul Haber |
Gastroenterology and Liver |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Geoff McCaughan |
Clinical Manager |
Skye Cooke |
Medical Imaging Services |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Michael Fulham |
Director Operations |
Reuben Haupt |
Mental Health Services |
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Clinical Director |
Dr Andrew McDonald |
Neurosciences, Bone and Joint, and Trauma |
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Clinical Director |
Associate Professor Roger Garsia |
Deputy Clinical Director |
Dr Mark Horsley |
Clinical Manager |
Jeremiah O’Sullivan |
Oral Health and Sydney Dental Hospital |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Sameer Bhole |
Public Health |
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Acting Clinical Director |
Dr Andrew Penman |
Renal Medicine and Urology |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Steve Chadban |
Operations Manager |
Camilla Cameron |
Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Paul Torzillo AM |
Clinical Manager |
Skye Cooke |
RPA Virtual Hospital |
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Clinical Director |
Dr Owen Hutchings |
Women’s Health, Neonatology & Paediatrics |
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Clinical Director |
Professor Jonathan Carter |
Operations Manager |
Louise Treloar |
Director Research |
Professor Warwick Britton AO |
Chief Medical Wellness Officer |
Dr Bethan Richards |
Program Director of Surgery |
Dr Martin McGee Collett |
Program Director of Surgical Strategy and Academia |
Professor Michael Solomon |