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Committee Structure

6.1.1. The affairs of the association shall be managed and controlled by a committee which in addition to any powers and authorities conferred by these rules may exercise all such powers and do all such things as are within the objects of the association, and are not by the Act or by these rules required to be done by the association in general meeting.

6.2.1. The committee shall be comprised of a chairperson, secretary, treasurer and five committee members.

The Management Committee

This committee will serve until the Annual General Meeting to be held in August 2010.

CHAIRPERSON - Danny Mitrousidis

Danny Mitroussidis

Daniel Mitroussidis the founder and Managing Partner of Innovation Plus which is essentially an avenue to promote better business practice and performance across all industries and professions.

Qualifications

Diploma of Business (Quality Auditing)
Evaluator – Australian Business Excellence Framework
Lead Quality Management Systems Auditor – RABQSA International
Aged Care Quality Assessor
Small Business Management

Appointments

Fellow of Institute of Legal Executives (VIC)
Board member of the Migration Museum
(History Trust of South Australia)
Australian Government – Department of Health &
Ageing Panel of Advisors
Australian Government – Department of Health &
Ageing Panel of Administrators
Director of Innovative Total Solutions Australia Pty Ltd (ITSA)
Member of the Australian Population Institute

Daniel was appointed the the Deputy Director of the the National Evidence Aged Care Unit in April 2010.The National Evidence-based Aged Care Unit (NEBACU): a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital and The University of Adelaide, Australia

SECRETARY/TREASURER - Trish McReynolds

Trish McReynolds (RN, BHltSc (Nursing), GCertBiometrics, External Aged Care Quality Assessor).

Trish has been involved in aged care since 1998. Her interest in aged care quality management resulted in the establishment of ACQA as a not for profit, self managed, aged care quality association. She is the network coordinator, educator and Public Officer of the association.

In December 2005 Trish was in the second intake of Aged Care Clinical Fellowships funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing program that was facilitated by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).

Trish predominantly works as a consultant in aged care in quality management and nurse advising. In October 2009 she was appointed to the Department of Health and Ageing Administrator and Advisor panels.

Trish was appointed the the Director of the the Joanna Briggs Institute Aged Care Unit in April 2010: a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital and The University of Adelaide, Australia.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Dr Caroline Lee (RN)

Dr Caroline Lee (RN) is the national President of the Australian Aged Care IT Vendors Association (ACIVA) and the Principal and CEO of Leecare software installed in over 250 aged care facilities across Australia.

She is on the national Compliance Certification and Accreditation e-health Governance Committee monitoring the implementation of the Australian Healthcare Identifiers (HI) program (personal care e-health record across the nation and unique health identifiers) which will determine health records held for individuals in all health care settings.

She works with various committees for the National e-Health Transitional Authority (NeHTA), is on the internationally renowned Joanna Briggs Institute Aged Care Advisory Committee and the Australian Aged Care Quality Association Committee.

Her IT and aged care knowledge is a result of 20 years aged care management consulting, 12 years working with health software and her role as a Commonwealth Nurse Advisor for organisations under sanctions for the past 13 years.

Her clinical knowledge was enhanced via her PhD thesis researching the Role of the Gerontological Nurse Practitioner in Australia, and the outcomes the role had on the physical, psychosocial and quality life of residents in residential aged care.

Angela Walker (RN)

Angela has been the DON forlast 21/2 years at Natimuck Victoria. Natimuck is one of the nine Residental Aged Care Services offered by West Wimmera Health Service. Angela has been an Registered Nurse since 1984 with clinical experience in Accident and Emergency, Intensive Care Unit, Midwifery and for the last 12 years in Aged Care.

Angela lovse to travel and enjoys fine food and wine. Angela has a strong family support that provides her with the opportunity to follow her career goals.

Angela is a valued member of the committee as she is the voice of our Victorian members

Gordon D Parbery (Human Nutrition & Dietetics)

Gordon D. Parbery

Graduated in 1984 from the University of Sydney with a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Nutrition & Dietetics. He has been working professionally since then in a wide range of healthcare settings including sports medicine, aged care, psychiatric institutions, acute care hospitals and within industry. He has extensive experience with nutritional supplements and was the first in the USA with his company GKFoods Inc. to introduce a pro-pre biotic nutritional supplement to aged care facilities in 1996.

Currently Gordon lives in Adelaide with his wife and daughter and consults to healthcare facilities, primarily aged care where he helps with identifying high risk residents and creating nutritional support programmes for recovery of health.

Matt Kowald

Kimberly Langes Quality and Risk Officer.

Kimberly Langes has a proud NON-nursing voice in the management committee. Currently working as Quality & Risk Officer for Coorong Health Service (a SA government Multipurpose Service in Country Health SA with 24 aged care beds) she started in an ISO9001 Quality management position in Engineering and Shipping in 1994 and has loved the challenges of varied quality management positions since. While she currently works in state government care her aged care accreditation career began with being mentored in ACQA at a community owned facility in her home town of Meningie, South Australia where she has returned to live in 2004 with her new husband Nigel, two sons Jesse and Mitch, pets as therapy dog Rumor and a baby on the way. Kimberly joined the committee as a member for the first time in 2010 and has been a part of the networking opportunities since 2006.