Ethical. Transparent. Efficient.
RARMS is led by a Board and Leadership team of committed experts in corporate and clinical governance to ensure we are sustainable and can assure high-quality care for our rural, remote and indigenous communities. Our teams include doctors, health professionals, academics, researchers, lawyers and financial experts who dedicate their time and energy to making sure disadvantaged rural and remote people get the best possible care now and in the future.
Our Board
RICHARD ANICICH
AM BCom, LLB, FAICD
Chair
Chair, Executive Committee
Chair, Nominations & Corporate Governance Committee
Conjoint Professor, School of Law, Newcastle University
Consultant Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Chair, Committee for the Hunter
Chair, Hunter Primary Care
JANE GRAY
MBA (UNewcastle) BComm (CSU)
Deputy Chair, Nominations & Corporate Governance Committee
Executive Director Partnerships, Innovation and Research, Hunter New England Local Health District
MICHELE SMITH
RN FACHSM MAICD
Member, Audit & Risk Committee
Chair, Eyre Far North Local Health Network
CEO, North Eastern Community Hospital
DR KIM WEBBER
PhD (Medicine) (Melb)
Deputy Chair
Member, Audit and Risk Committee
Member, Executive Committee
Executive Director, Strategy, Co-Health
Former CEO, Australian Rural Health Workforce Agency
Former Executive Director, Murrayt Darling Medical School
Former CEO, National Rural Health Alliance
World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Rural Health
DR KEN MACKEY AM
MBBS (UNSW), Dip Obst (RCOG), FACRRM, FAICD
Chair, Clinical Governance Committee
Former General Practitioner, Lockhart
Former President, Rural Doctors Association of Australia
DR IAN OPPERMANN
MBA(Lon), PhD (Syd). FIEEE, FIEAust, FTSE, FACS, GAICD
Chair, Audit and Risk Committee
NSW Chief Data Scientist, NSW Premiers and Cabinet
Former Chief Executive Officer, NSW Data Analytics Centre
Former Director, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship, CSIRO
PROFESSOR AMANDA BARNARD
BMed (Hons), FRACGP
Member, Nominations & Corporate Governance Committee
Member, Executive Committee
Member, Clinical Governance
Professor of Medicine, Australian National University
Interim Dean, Charles Sturt University Medical School
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Our Leadership Team
Mark Burdack
CEO
Kellie Pickering
Manager RARMS Health
Tracy Haig
Manager HealthAccess
