The Queensland Clinical Senate is made up of more than 90 members who bring a range of skills, experiences, ideas and views to the Senate. Members are committed to improving the health outcomes for Queenslanders and represent a wide range of professions and specialties across the public, private, primary and community health sectors and metropolitan, regional, rural and remote settings. Consumers and carer representation in the membership ensures the Senate’s advice reflects the needs and expectations of the community.
Members are appointed for three years and meet two to three times a year.
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Queensland Clinical Senate executive
The Queensland Clinical Senate is led by a chair, deputy chair and executive committee representative of the broader membership.
The executive leads Queensland Clinical Senate initiatives and provides advice to the Department of Health and Minister for Health on areas of strategic clinical importance.
The executive meets twice monthly. If you would like to present to the executive, please email qldclinicalsenate@health.qld.gov.au outlining the topic for discussion, the relevance of the topic to the executive, desired outcomes and preferred timeframes for assessment by the Senate Chair.
Chair
Dr Tanya Kelly
Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate
Dr Tanya Kelly is an experienced senior clinician (anaesthetist). She has held clinical leadership roles for the past 10 years, most recently as Director of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine and Clinical Director for Digital Transformation within the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. Dr Kelly has held senior clinical engagement roles in major digital and redesign projects and has had significant involvement in the digital delivery of the local COVID-19 testing and vaccination program. Beyond her clinical practice, she has qualifications in clinical redesign, business and is a Certified Health Informatician (CHIA) with a presence on several state-wide clinical advisory groups. Dr Kelly is keen to ensure that the Queensland Clinical Senate is highly effective in providing a valuable and driving contribution toward responsive healthcare delivery that meets the changing needs of consumers.
Deputy Chair
Dr Kate Johnston
Deputy Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate
Dr Kate Johnston is a General Practitioner and Medical Director of GP Partnerships and Engagement at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. She has over 25 years-experience as a clinician working across the public health sector and in primary care, in addition to educational, academic and management roles. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and a recent graduate of the Clinical Excellence Queensland Healthcare Improvement Fellowship. Kate looks forward to working with clinicians, consumers and partners to optimise the healthcare system for all Queenslanders.
Immediate Past Deputy Chair
Adj Prof Chris Raftery
Immediate Past Deputy Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate
Chris is a published nursing leader and emergency nurse practitioner, who is Nursing Director of Clinical Innovation and Advanced Practice at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. He is a leading identity with the development of advanced practice nursing and the role of the nurse practitioner, at a local, state and national level. Chris is the former national president of the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners, and current deputy chair of advanced practice with the Australian College of Nursing. Chris believes the future of delivering a high quality and cost-effective health system, involves building sustainable and innovative health delivery models, embracing technology and working smarter not harder, in meeting the Queensland community’s ever-evolving complex and diverse healthcare needs.
Executive Committee members
Ms Roslyn Boland
Roslyn Boland is an Aboriginal woman of the Mardigan and Kooma tribes of South West Queensland and is a senior registered nurse in Queensland Health. She is the Nurse Unit Manager, Primary and Community Care, Roma, South West Hospital and Health Service, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Queensland. Roslyn is passionate about influencing people on a professional platform to improve health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Dr Marlow Coates
Marlow is a Rural Generalist Senior Medical Officer living and working on Thursday Island and is the Executive Director of Medical Services for Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service. He holds a FRACGP, FACRRM, AFRACMA and JCCA and is a current RACMA candidate in training. Marlow is committed to developing high-quality workforce and system processes that contribute towards closing the gap in health access and outcome inequity experienced by First Nations People and other Queenslanders living remotely.
Dr Ian Scott
Dr Ian Scott is consultant general physician and Director of Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Professor of Medicine at University of Queensland and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Queensland University of Technology. He is a past president of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand and is inaugural chair of the Metro South Clinical AI Working Group and the Australian Deprescribing Network. He is a past chair of the Queensland General Medicine Clinical Network and has recently been appointed chair of the Queensland Clinical Networks Executive. He has longstanding experience and research interests in evidence-based medicine, clinical reasoning, clinical informatics, quality and safety improvement, and quality use of medicines. He sits on committees of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Queensland Health, the Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Health Care, and the National Prescribing Service. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles and is a recipient of several NHMRC and government research grants.
Dr Kellie Stockton
Dr Kellie Stockton is the Director of Allied Health for Metro North’s Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS).
An experienced health care leader in the public, private and not for profit health sectors. Kellie has a strong track record in the implementation and management of innovative models of care to improve access to timely and effective healthcare services with high level project management and analytical skills utilised to evaluate service delivery. Kellie is an Honorary Adjunct Professor with the University of Queensland who has published more than 40 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.
Kellie is the Chair of the Metro North Allied Health Research Committee, the chair for the state-wide Allied Health Digital Specialty Group and a member of the Brisbane North Allied Health Collaborative Steering Committee.
Mr Anthony West
Anthony is a physiotherapist with over 30 years’ experience in the healthcare sector. Based in Longreach as the General Manager, Primary Health Services, Central West Hospital and Health Service, he is focused on improving systems that enable the delivery of high-quality, far reaching healthcare to remote Queenslanders. He believes strongly in providing opportunities for people and communities to engage in healthy behaviours and prevent ill-health, whatever their starting point. Anthony holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy, a Master of Sports Physiotherapy, a Graduate Certificate in Business and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
