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Executive
» Professor Warwick Anderson AM, Chief Executive Officer
» Dr Clive Morris, Chief Knowledge and Development Officer
» Hilary Russell, Chief Operations Officer
Leadership team
Sue Bone, Director Information Technology Services
Dr Bruce Carroll, Director Corporate Governance
Marilyn Chalkley, Head Strategic Communications
Cathy Clutton, Executive Director Health Evidence and Advice Branch
Dr Tim Dyke, Executive Director Quality and Regulation Branch
Tony Krizan, Executive Director Grants Management Branch
Professor Elim Papadakis, Executive Director Research Investment Branch
Dr Sue Phillips, Executive Director National Institute of Clinical Studies (a/g)
Fran Raymond, Chief Finance Officer
Barbara Sullivan, Executive Director Corporate Services Branch
Leadership team bios
Marilyn Chalkley, Head Strategic Communications
Marilyn Chalkley has a Masters in Mass Communication and has won a Human Rights Media Award, and originally qualified as an occupational therapist.
She fell headlong into communication many years ago in London when she took up a job as assistant editor, or more accurately tea lady, cartoonist, and writer for a magazine called Science for People. On arriving in Australia she worked alternatively as a health practitioner and a print journalist. After a stint as a journalist at the ABC, where she reported news on radio and TV and hosted the Morning show for ABC Newcastle, she became media adviser in Parliament House to the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health. She moved into the public service in early 1991 and ran a series of high profile health related campaigns, on issues such as the risk of alcohol and smoking, on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and on childhood immunisation for the Commonwealth Health Department.
While running her own business for five years, communication and evaluation were her main focus, in particular on climate change, health and energy. During this time she managed the public relations for the Prime Minister’s Science Prize. Later she ran the Quarantine Matters Campaign with the late Steve Irwin for AQIS – and then moved to CSIRO to become Manager of CSIRO Media Liaison, from whence she came to NHMRC in 2008.
Marilyn is married with two adult sons, and ever few weekends she and her husband escape to their hundred acre property on the Brogo River, which is home to many Australian animals and birds and a very well fenced orchard.
Cathy Clutton, Executive Director Health Evidence and Advice Branch
Cathy Clutton is Executive Director of the Health Evidence and Advice Branch. Her current responsibilities cover include development of evidence based clinical practice and population health guidelines and other forms of evidence based advice, horizon scanning in health and technology issues, human genetics, consumer and community participation, and Indigenous health.
Cathy has been a career public servant since joining the health portfolio in 1979. She has contributed to or managed a wide range of health programs, notably corporate services including patents, health-related community organisation funding and management support, biological standards, health outcomes and research.
Cathy joined the NHMRC in the mid 1980s and has held a variety of roles including Secretary to the Council, publications manager, and manager of the research ethics, health ethics and public health programs.
Cathy has formal qualifications in management and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Health.
Dr Tim Dyke, Executive Director Quality and Regulation Branch
Dr Tim Dyke joined NHMRC in 2008. Previous Commonwealth appointments include Team Leader, Veterinary Antibiotics and Vaccines, Principal Scientist and most recently, Program Manager, Quality Assurance and Compliance, with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA).
Tim obtained his veterinary science degree from the University of Sydney in 1982 and holds masters degrees in veterinary science and business administration. He completed his PhD, a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology, and postdoctoral work at The Ohio State University. By examination, he is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology and a Fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists.
Tony Krizan, Executive Director Grants Management Branch
Tony Krizan manages the NHMRC's evaluation and reporting, secretariat support and post award grant administration, including development of relevant information technology business support systems.
He has worked in the NHMRC since 2001 and was the manager of corporate services for several years, and has also managed the NHMRC's peer review processes.
Tony completed a Bachelor of Financial Administration (University of New England, 1990) and a Graduate Certificate in Management Studies (University of Canberra, 1996).
Tony is an Associate Member of CPA Australia and commenced in the Commonwealth Department of Finance in 1990. He has developed policy and managed programs in social welfare, vocational education, training and employment, and aged and community care.
Tony has also served as Treasurer of community based disability support organisations.
Dr Sue Phillips, BSc Hons, D Phil Oxon, Executive Director National Institute of Clinical Studies (acting)
Dr Phillips joined the National Institute of Clinical Studies in July 2001 when the institute became operational, and NHMRC in April 2007 when NICS became an institute of the NHMRC. Since joining NICS, Dr Phillips has led national implementation programs in primary, secondary and tertiary care settings in clinical priority areas including heart failure management and venous thromboembolism prevention. In her current role she leads the work of the institute in improving health care by getting the best available evidence from health and medical research into everyday clinical practice. NICS works in partnership with other organisations to deliver major programs that promote the uptake of evidence in diverse clinical settings and to build the Australian health care system’s capacity to translate knowledge into current practice.
Dr Phillips has a background in medical research and extensive experience in health and family services policy development and program implementation. She obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Sussex in 1981 and D Phil from the University of Oxford in 1985. After completing her postdoctoral research fellowship at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Dr Phillips joined the Commonwealth Government Department of Health and Ageing where she worked on national policy priorities, including medical workforce training, health sector performance indicators, and child care services and rebates. Prior to joining NICS, Dr Phillips worked for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners as a senior policy analyst on national policy issues and clinical practice priorities for general practitioners.
In January 2008 Dr Phillips and her team received an Australia Day Achievement Medallion for services that have made a significant contribution to the nation in relation to the prevention of deep vein thrombosis in Australian hospitals.
Dr Phillips was born in Weymouth, UK and attended the European School in Brussels, Belgium and Varese, Italy.
Barbara Sullivan, Executive Director Corporate Services Branch
Barbara Sullivan is Executive Director, Corporate Services Branch. She has a Science degree (double major in psychology) from the Australian National University and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Barbara has held a range of executive and senior executive strategic management positions in more than a dozen APS agencies and statutory authorities, from the very large (7,000+ staff) to the very small (50 staff). She has experience in policy, programme and corporate services roles.
Barbara joined NHMRC in 2007.