A/Prof Matthew Robert Hooper

A community-based, organisation centered on Buddhist principles that provides professional and compassionate in-home palliative care in Adelaide.

With a focus on accountability, transparency, and innovation, the board fosters an environment that encourages collaboration.

The board is pivotal in steering the organisation towards continued growth and success, ensuring it remains responsive to the evolving needs of stakeholders and the communities served.

Established in 1976, the Mary Potter Hospice has developed an excellent reputation in acute palliative care for people with life limiting illness. Located within the Calvary North Adelaide Hospital, the hospice comprises 16 acute, inpatient palliative care beds in addition to support for palliative care in the home and consultation services.

• Clinical Director at Calvary North Adelaide ICU (2010 to 2022) and Senior Intensive Care Specialist at Calvary Adelaide.
• Broad clinical exposure inclusive of cardiothoracic and neurosurgical critical care.
• Total of 28 ICU beds across both units.
• Established and implemented team based, innovative, patient centric new models of care for immunocompromised and clinically deteriorating patients.
• Member of both Medical Advisory and Clinical Review Committees.

• Pre-hospital and retrieval care for the SA health care region (population 1.9 million)
• Regular, high-level clinical coordination via telemedicine, including clinical advice to regional and remote health care practitioners
• Regular education and training of all clinical staff, including training medical officers of ACEM, ANZCA, ACRRM and CICM

Calvary Health Care and Medibank Health Solutions partnered to deliver the My Home Hospital service for Wellbeing SA and SA Health.

I chaired the Clinical Council which broadly represented key groups involved in delivering, and receiving this innovative service.

I also led the required clinical engagement in order to ensure adequate consultation and delivery of a safe, high quality service for the people of South Australia.

A new position leading transformational change and the development of new models of care for transition to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2016.

• Integration within a single, network Intensive Care Service
• Clinical leadership within a complex and difficult geopolitical landscape
• Multidisciplinary "heart team" model of care development and implementation
• New, whole of service Clinical Governance framework implementation
• Medical and nursing education
• Ongoing development of personal echocardiography and ECMO skills and experience

• Level 3, 32 bed, C24 Adult Intensive Care Unit
• Post-operative support for cardiothoracic
  surgical patients
• Over 2000 admissions per year
• Extra Corporeal
  Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program
• Active critical care
  echocardiography program
• Trauma centre for southern and eastern South
  Australia
• Liver and post-liver transplant
• State referral centre for
  critically ill pregnant women
• Teaching, training and research

• Responsible for overseeing the Clinical Governance of SA Ambulance Service.
• High level clinical advice to the CEO.
• Responsible for the implementation of innovative new models of care - such as appointing an Ambulance Service Chief Pharmacist (an international first).
• Education and assessment of Paramedics and Intensive Care Paramedics in training.
• Clinical advice and support to voluntary ambulance officers in country South Australia.

Led the design, development and implementation of South Australia's first, state wide, single, integrated critical care retrieval service.
Specific areas of achievement:

• High level consultation and stakeholder engagement
• Significant change management within a challenging geopolitical environment
• Strong leadership and implementation of new service culture
• Development (and full service delivery within two years) of an internationally applauded and innovative model of operations, coordination, tasking, teaching & training and clinical governance
• Achievement of accreditation for advanced training with all three Australasian critical care colleges
• Service award recognition (SA Health)
• Personal award recognition (South Australian Emergency Services Medal)

• Entire new service clinical guideline development
• Selection, training, education and ongoing support via an innovative tele-link clinical governance program for training registrars statewide (across 5 operational bases)
• Stakeholder engagement and change management
• Successful accreditation for training by ACEM
• Development of University based, postgraduate training program for retrieval medicine

• 17 bed level 3 unit
• Referral centre for North Queensland
• Mixed paediatric and adult C24 unit
• Management of adult cardiothoracic surgical patients
• Active critical care echocardiography program
• Major trauma centre
• Neurosurgical and obstetric referral centre
• Separate L3 NICU

• Completed Fellowship requirements for FACEM
• Continued training for FCICM (General Medicine and Anaesthetics)
• Additional 6 months of anesthetics spent
  mostly in adult cardiothoracic anaesthetics training.