Responsibilities of Board of Management
The responsibilities of the Board of Management as a group include:
Strategic Direction:
- Define mission and values of the division
- Set strategic direction and targets
- Monitor performance
- Explore opportunities to expand the division’s program of activities
- Ensure that the Division’s strategic direction reflects the needs and expectations of its members
Financial:
- Understand the Division’s financial position, risks and opportunities
- Approve the annual budget and check variations quarterly
- Protect the interests and assets of the organisation
- Set the strategy for income and expenditure
- Ensure effective resource development occurs
Legal:
- Comply with rules of association in the conduct of meetings and accountability to members
- Establish systems to ensure division fulfils all contractual obligations
- Develop Division policies that reflect legal and statutory obligations
- Ensure the Division has a robust risk management strategy
- Ensure compliance with obligations as an employer
board of Management Profiles
Tim took over the role of Chair at the Annual General Meeting in November 2006.
Tim Foo graduated from University of Melbourne and after five years in the hospital system in various positions, including medical registrar and Dip RACOG training, settled in a group general practice in East Bentleigh. During his term as Chairman of the Family Medicine Division (Moorabbin Campus), Tim revived the Thursday Lunchtime Clinical Meetings before the days of CME points. When he was Unit Head of GP Obstetrics and Project Manager of the GP Obstetric Project, Tim helped increase GPs’ involvement in obstetrics, especially at the Moorabbin Campus of MMC.
Apart from obstetrics, his medical interests include chronic disease management and GP wellbeing. Outside medicine, Tim enjoys keeping fit and travelling with his wife and three children, photography and computers.
Andrew has been in full-time General Practice at the East Bentleigh Medical Group since 1984.
His clinical interests include obstetrics (antenatal care), paediatrics, geriatrics and integrating patient care with other health care providers.
He is a member of the Management Committee of the Bentleigh-Bayside Community Health Service and represents the Monash Division on several hospital and regional health care committees.
Andrew is married and has three children, two at university and one nearing school completion. His interests outside of medicine include old BMW’s, home handyman activities and bike riding.
Dr Maria Cendana-Paiva - Deputy Chair
Her clinical interests are pain and stress management, promoting mental health through relaxation, meditation and maintaining balance in life. Interests include health service management, public health and population health. She enjoys teaching medical students and giving talks to the community. Her aim is to contribute her skills in clinical practice and medical administration to improve the interface between general practice, hospital and ambulatory and community services.
Outside medicine, Maria is interested in “trying” to cultivate bonsai and orchids while keeping up with two active school-aged children and a sports-minded husband.
Jim graduated from Monash University in 1971 and did his residency at Box Hill Hospital before starting full time practice in Oakleigh where he has been ever since. He was a committee member of the Asthma Foundation of Victoria where for 4 yrs he raised the profile of the Foundatio and raised awareness of asthma as a medical condition and its treatment in the Greek Community.
Having a liking to public speaking Jim became a radio personality for 15 yrs on Greak radio stations with weekly programs covering a variety of medical topis. At present he has a special interest in allegies, diabetes and obesity.
Jim says he joined the Board of Directors of the Division because "I wanted to contribue to the debate of running a General Practice".
Dr Anthony Lolatgis - Treasurer
Dr Anthony Lolatgis graduated from Monash University in 1983 and is a full time general practitioner in Oakleigh/Hughesdale who has been in general practice for 16 years. He has an interest in exercise stress ECG testing and fitness assessments.
Anthony’s major long-time hobby is athletics and he has the honour of sharing the 100m veteran record at Glenhuntly Athletics Club with former Commonwealth Games competitor Max Binnington. His other interests include boating and bushwalking with his wife and two children.
As a Board Member, I recognise that General Practice is the lynch pin of health in the Australian community and GPs are highly mulitskilled professionals who deliver health to the community in the most cost effective and efficient manner and provide the best and most yielding health outcomes.
Divisions are an opportunity to partner and liaise together with government with health focused strategies and help unite and focus health strategy to obtain the best possible health coutcomes as a single unified primary care force.
I hope that my many years of experience as a general practitioner will give the Board of Management new ideas and infuence health outcomes and strategies in a positive way.
Dr Peter Schattner
Peter graduated from Melbourne University in 1974 but returned there as a postgraduate student to complete his Masters in Community Medicine in 1986.
Peter joined a general practice in Murrumbeena in 1982 and transferred to the East Bentleigh Medical Group in 1996. He is also a part-time clinical Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice at Monash University. His main academic interests are in evidence based medicine, research methodology, doctors’ health and the use of the internet for clinical purposes. He also has a significant role in post-graduate teaching through distance education.
Peter is currently the Monash Division’s Informatics Adviser. When not working, Peter, to the bewilderment of his three young adult kids, is obsessed by opera.
David graudated from Melbourne University in 1991 and attained his FRACGP in 1997. He did his initial training at the Austin, then demonstrated Anatomy at Monash University before taking a year in the UK at St Mary's Hospital in London, Addenbrooks in Cambridge and Queen Margaret in Dunfermline.
David says he then saw the light and started in General Practice, first in Kew, then Mooroolbark, before finally settling in Carnegie. He has a special interest in Sleep Medicine, Allergy medicine and Cardiac Diagnostics.
David is married with a you
Graduating from medical school in Sri Lanka, Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha did a research degree at Oxford University and trained as a paediatric surgeon. He worked in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong before coming to Australia in 1996.
Retraining in family medicine he obtained FRACGP in 2000 and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice at Monash University in addition to working three days a week in a group practice in Moorabbin.
An officer in the Australian Army reserve and a keen writer, Sanjiva is married to Chitra who is also a GP.
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