Dr.
Aaron Groves
Executive Sponsor
Dr Aaron Groves was appointed as Director of the Division of Mental Health
in August 2002. He is a consultant psychiatrist who has had a varied career
in both public and private psychiatry. He has held clinical positions in Emergency,
Older Adult and Community Psychiatry having been previously the Clinical Director
of the Psychiatric Emergency Team and Consultant Psychiatrist at Armadale/Kelmscott
Health Service.
Dr Groves has an interest in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder
and has maintained a small part time clinical practice specialising in the
treatment of this disorder. He has previously held the positions of A/General
Manager of the Mental Health Division, Chief Psychiatrist, Director of Metropolitan
Mental Health Service and Director of the Post-Graduate Education and Training
Program in Psychiatry.
Dr Groves is recognised nationally having served on numerous national committees
relating to mental health and is currently the Deputy Chair of the National
Mental Health Working Group of Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council.
In addition he has had a major involvement with the Royal Australian and New
Zealand College of Psychiatrists in the areas of Training, Continuing Medical
Education, Quality Improvement, Practice Standards and Ethics, in which he
has played a major role relating to the Colleges efforts to minimise professional
misconduct and boundary transgressions.
Danuta
Pawelek
Director - Systems Development
When Danuta was appointed to the position of Director of Systems Development
2 years ago, one of her first tasks was to develop the WA Mental Health Information
Development Plan that would advance mental health information development
in WA in line with national mental health information development priorities.
Danuta, an Economist by training, was born and educated in Poland. Danuta's
previous positions in the Department of Health included the Director of Health
Statistics Branch in the Health Information Centre, a Senior Policy Officer
in the Strategic Planning and Evaluation Branch, the Coordinator of WA Hospital
Morbidity Data System and the Senior Labour Force Planning Officer. Danuta
is committed to improving the quality of mental health care through expanding
and improving access to quality information.
John
Taylor
Business Manager - PSOLIS
John Taylor qualified in the United Kingdom as a Registered Mental Health
Nurse in 1981. He worked in the Isle of Man and held a number of clinical
and management positions before migrating to Western Australia in 1987. He
has worked as a clinician at Bentley Lodge, Whitby Falls, Heathcote Hospital
and Bentley Health Service. As a Senior Project Officer he was involved in
the closure of Heathcote and the establishment and opening of the Mills St
Centre, Bentley Health Service. Since 1993, an interest in information technology
and its application to mental health service delivery has seen him directly
involved in the development of the Client Information Database (CID), Local
Area Mental Health Information System (LAMHIS), the Mental Health Review Board
Case Tracking System and Client Reference Emergency System (CRES). John is
currently working as the Business Systems Manager on the PSOLIS Project, which
is part of the Mental Health Information Development Plan.
Karen
Dickinson
Clinical Training Program
Karen is Manager of the Clinical Training Program, part of the Mental Health
Information Development Plan (MHIDP) for Western Australia. Karen has worked
in WA Mental Health Services for over 17 years. For many years Karen worked
as a community mental health nurse with the Psychiatry Emergency Team (PET).
Following this she worked in London as a community mental health nurse for
one year. Karen has had numerous Project Officer roles since 1996 including
involvement with the regionalisation of Psychiatric Emergency Services, the
Adult Mental Health Project and the Core Competency Project (CCP). Karen developed
and delivered the very successful Statewide competency based training program
in Mental State Examination (MSE) as part of the CCP. Karen is currently completing
her Masters in Health Services Management and undertaking her thesis in the
routine collection of outcome measures - the evaluation of training and clinical
utility.
Kirsty
Sheppard
Regional Coordinator - South
Kirsty has worked at Fremantle Hospital since 1993, moving to Mental Health
in 2000 in the role of Health Information Officer, which also involved coordination
of LAMHIS. She has been involved in the implementation of TOPAS and more recently
in the design of the Fremantle Hospital Mental Health internet and intranet
sites. Kirsty has been involved in the development of PSOLIS from the beginning,
participating in weekly workshops.
Jennifer
Hoffman
Clinical Training Program
Jenny is currently a Project Officer/Training Consultant with the Clinical
Training Program. Her substantive position is as the Senior Social Worker
at the Way Centre Adolescent Unit at Bentley Health Service. Jenny has extensive
experience in both child and adolescent and adult mental health and has a
special interest in the cycle of self-harm and suicide prevention. She has
worked in a number of mental health settings in South Africa, the United Kingdom,
in Canada and in Australia.
Creswell
Surrao
Clinical Training Program
Creswell is a Project Officer/Training Consultant. He has worked for Mental
Health in the UK, WA, Canberra and Adelaide. In that time he has worked as
a clinician within both Adult and Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services.
He has been seconded from his position within Armadale Health Service, as
Duty Officer in the Adult Community Mental Health Service.
Tracey
Sheehan
Tracey is a Project officer who has just relocated from the Eastern States
where she was working for a university as a research nurse on a Bipolar Genetic
project. She has over ten years experience in the mental health field including
working in Ireland for a period. She has an interest in public health research/promotion
and will complete a Masters of Public Health this year.
