Executive Team

Dr Stephen Ayre began his career as a general practitioner on the Sunshine Coast and has worked in several hospitals across the State. Stephen is a graduate of the University of Queensland Medical School, has a Masters in Health Administration from the University of NSW and is a Fellow and Jurisdictional Coordinator Training for the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. He has worked in senior management roles across health, including community health, medical superintendent and medical services. Stephen also worked in Tasmania, where he was the CEO of the Launceston General Hospital from 2004 to 2008. He also worked as the Executive Director of Medical Services at The Prince Charles Hospital from 2008 to 2014. Stephen was appointed as Executive Director, Princess Alexandra Hospital and QEII Jubilee Hospital Health Network in May 2014.

Veronica has held nursing executive leadership positions in Queensland Health since 1998. She worked in nursing director roles at The Prince Charles Hospital, the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Royal Women’s Hospital prior to her appointment as Executive Director, Nursing Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital. During her time at PAH, she has been instrumental in helping the hospital achieve re-designation under the Magnet® credentialing program, and the introduction of the Nurse Sensitive Indicator performance monitoring system. In 2010, she was appointed as one of three inaugural international commissioners for the American Nurses Credentialing Centre. Veronica was appointed as a Board Member on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia in May 2014.

A graduate from University College Dublin, Michael commenced his senior management roles as the Executive Director Medical Services of West Moreton in 2002.

After leading the Bundaberg Hospital Emergency Response Team in 2005, Michael founded the Southern Area Clinical Governance Unit.   

Since 2008 Michael has been the Executive Director Clinical Governance, Metro South Health, incorporating a Tertiary and four General Hospitals.

At Metro South Health, Michael has developed and evolved a number of Australia-leading Clinical Governance systems, including Communication Training programs, Senior Medical Performance processes, Audit and Scorecard systems and Digital Hospital Safety systems.

Michael led the Accreditation against the 10 National Standards that saw Princess Alexandra Hospital achieve the best results in Australia. He is running collaborations with New Zealand and Norway and is a frequent invitee to provide Clinical Governance support and advice to other hospitals across Australia. Since 2014, 14 Hospitals have visited Michael and his team.

Michael is an Adjunct Associate Professor at QUT, and is a member of the National Model Clinical Governance Advisory panel. He is published in End of Life, Deteriorating Patients, Disaster Management and Communication Programs and is an International speaker on Senior Medical Performance and Digital Hospital Safety.

Jen is a graduate of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) with a Master of Science and spent almost ten years ‘on the bench’ at Forensic and Scientific Services, specialising in trace metal toxicological analysis. In the past, Jen worked in a number of roles including ICT and workforce project management, before moving back to the laboratory environment as Director and successfully led a significant business improvement program. More recently, following her desire to work in an engineering environment (as her Masters qualification was a joint study with the School of Civil Engineering) she worked in the Department of Transport and Main Roads, leading the delivery of the state planning and corporate services programs and the facilitation of land development across the state. Jen has undertaken a number of post-graduate studies in leadership and management and has particular interests in adaptive leadership, culture change and the implementation of systems and processes that dramatically improve service delivery in healthcare and the public sector as a whole. She was previously Director of the Commercial and Business Portfolio of the now Health Support Queensland.

Alister was appointed Finance Director, Princess Alexandra Hospital and QEII Jubilee Hospital Health Network in 2013. He holds a Bachelor of Business from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance. Alister is a Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA) and a member of the Governance Institute of Australia and Health Financial Management Association of Australia.

Alister has held senior financial and business management roles with the Princess Alexandra Hospital, The Princes Charles Hospital and Department of Community Safety over the past 15 years. He was also responsible for the successful establishment of the statutory, financial management reporting and financial governance systems of Metro South Hospital and Health Service as the interim CFO in 2012 when the HHS was established.

Kay has a background in physiotherapy and worked as a senior clinician within Queensland Health and the United Kingdom’s National Health Service before pursuing an interest in workforce, organisational development and change management. Both within the Princess Alexandra Hospital and more recently, across Metro South Health, she has been responsible for leading a range of broad change initiatives including workforce and performance models, critical service partnerships, planning frameworks and corporate governance models. Kay acted as the Metro South Health executive lead for the transition to an independent statutory body in line with national and state health reform in 2012.