Western Health welcomes 2 new members of the Nursing & Midwifery Executive, Kate Renzenbrink and Tony McGillian.
Kate Renzenbrink:
Kate Renzenbrink joins Western Health as our Director of Nursing and 
Midwifery Informatics (Chief Nursing and Midwifery Informatics Officer) in October 2021. Kate has extensive experience as a nursing and midwifery leader and as an ambassador for effective digital health transformation at the National, State and local level.
Kate’s expertise as an innovation lead and skilled communicator have been crafted through roles which include most recently as Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer at Bendigo Health and previously as Senior Policy Officer for Safer Care Victoria and Senior Advisor at the Victorian Agency for Health Information.
Kate lends her expertise to the My Health Record Clinical Advisory Group with the Victorian Department of Health, the Nursing and Midwifery group and Victorian Chief Informatics Officers’ group with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and as Chair of the Nursing Informatics Community of Interest with the Australian College of Nursing.
Tony McGillion:
Tony joins us from La Trobe University where he is an Associate 
Professor of Clinical Nursing Practice and coordinates their leadership and management post-graduate programs for nursing and midwifery and healthcare. Tony is also La Trobe University’s Director of Partnerships for the School of Health and is the Academic Program Director for the Bachelor of Nursing courses that run out of Singapore.
Tony has extensive leadership experience within the public health sector, having formally been in roles including the Clinical School Director for the La Trobe University/Royal Melbourne Hospital partnership and as a Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of Health.
Additionally Tony has previously led nursing education departments across a number of health services including Austin Health, Cabrini Health and Epworth.
Tony comes with expertise and established networks in public health, government and academia; and brings to the role significant experience and strength in leadership, which he provides through his authenticity and ability to empower others to achieve their potential.