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Program Management Advisory Committee (PMAC)
The Improvement Foundation Australia (IFA) has been contracted by the Commonwealth to implement Phase 2 of the Australian Primary Care Collaborative Program. To meet governance requirements IFA has established a Project Management Advisory Committee (PMAC). The PMAC team draws together the considerable skills of Alan Bansemer (Chair), Rosey Batt, Rob DiMonte, Dale Ford, Richard Reed, Paula Arnol to offer continuing strategic advice and APCC project assurance to the Improvement Foundation Australia (IFA)Board. The PMAC team will provide a valuable resource of experience and expertise across a range of key areas including health policy, primary health care delivery, law, governance, financial management, and organisational change.
	Chair Alan Bansemer Formerly the Commissioner of Health, Health Department of Western Australia, Alan now acts as a consultant within the Health Sector (nationally) and brings with him extensive experience in governance in a not-for profit, finance, primary health care delivery, helath policy and an understanding of comsumer and carer perspectives.
	Members Ms Paula Arnol Paula is the CEO of Danila Dilba Health Service, the principal Aboriginal comprehensive primary health care service for Darwin and surrounding areas. Ms Arnol is currently the Chairperson of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the Northern Territory (AMSANT), Chairperson of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Health Forum, Co-Chair of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Health Expert Panel and a board member of The Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH). Ms Rosey Batt Rosey founded Rosey Batt & Associates in 2001 with the vision of creating a highly professional legal firm that valued its clients and provided a family friendly environment for staff. The firm now employs 5 full time lawyers and a number of law clerks. Rosey has had extensive commercial legal experience acting for Publicly Listed Companies, SME’s and individuals. For a number of years she was a partner with Minter Ellison. Her primary areas of practice are in Business Transactions, Trade Practices, commercialisation of business opportunities, resolving disputes and Intellectual Property. Rosey has had extensive Board experience and today sits on a number of Private and Public Sector Boards. Her broad knowledge of Corporate Governance issues has been enhanced by having held the positions of Chair, Deputy Chair and chair of a number of Corporate Governance committees. Rob DiMonte Rob qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984 and has worked for small and large accounting practices over the past 25 years. Rob’s professional expertise has spanned many of the competency areas for a Chartered Accountant including - audit, tax, business services and since the late eighties, management consulting. His skills are in business strategy, performance measurement, customer and product profitability, shared services, and process re-engineering. Rob is currently the Managing Partner for Deloitte in Adelaide and also continues to lead the management consulting activities in South Australia. His clients range from large corporations to small and medium enterprises. Some of Rob’s major clients include Australia Post, Mitsubishi Motors, Bridgestone, the Universities of Adelaide, Flinders and South Australia, ETSA Utilities, SA Water, Vodafone, Owens Corning, Santos and General Motors. Rob is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Certified Management Consultant, Member of the Institute of Company Directors, former Deputy Chairman of SA Great, former Chairman of VIVASA, AMCHAM Governor, CEDA Trustee and National President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Dr Dale Ford Dr Dale Ford was previously Clinical Director of NPCC, a role which he held for approximately two years. Dale is a GP and has been a Partner in a Group Practice in Hamilton, Western Victoria for the last 20+ years. He is Medical Director of Otway Division of General Practice and has been in that position for the last six years. Dr Ford helped set up Greater Green Triangle GP Education and Training, a Regional General Practice Training Provider, was their inaugural Chair and is currently on their Board. He has interests in Diabetes and CVD, working in ICU at Hamilton’s Hospital. He is involved in a Diabetes Prevention Project and research with Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health. He is currently running a Chronic disease Management Project in conjunction with western District Health service and his Practice, using the elements of the Wagner Chronic Disease Model. Dr Ford is an employee of IFA and therefore would be classified as an internal member. Professor Richard Reed Professor Reed is head of the Department of General Practice at Flinders University since 2005 when he migrated to Australia. Professor Reed is a native of the USA, and possesses American Specialty Certificates in Family Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Preventive Medicine. He recently obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practice and is clinically active in Adelaide. Professor Reed has expertise in quality improvement including participation in the implementation of a 48 hospital clinical trial comparing Continuous Quality Improvement to State-of-the-art continuing professional development for the prevention of pressure ulcers. He has also led a clinical trial of a structured approach to the management of diabetes mellitus in 12 large general practices and has an extensive background in guideline implementation and quality improvement methodologies. Professor Reed also has substantial administrative experience including Chairing the Department of Family Medicine and serving as Acting Dean at United Emirates University before assuming his post at Flinders University.