Donna-Maree Vinci GAICD, FGIA, MACS (SNR), ESG Leadership Certificate, currently holds the role of Non-Executive Director on the boards of NGM Group, Hunter Water, Capricorn Society, MS Plus and Western Sydney Airport.
With a wealth of experience in board governance and a distinguished executive career in global CxO positions, Donna's expertise spans crucial areas such as strategy, data management, digital transformation, technology, operational efficiency, risk oversight, and corporate governance and a track record in delivering digital disruptions and transformative initiatives within major financial institutions on a global scale.
Donna has used her experience and opportunities to elevate her people and businesses to be connected with the needs and expectations of their customer’s, staff and stakeholders and adapt the business to be relevant, sustainable and competitive in the fast pace of change.
Donna is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), Competent Boards (ESG Leadership Certificate), MIT (Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy) and is certified as a Fellow (FGIA) with the Governance Institute of Australia. Donna was awarded Cisco's Women in IT, 2019, CIO of the Year Award.
Donna’s focus is not just technologically driven, a large part of her approach is centred on culture/mindset, sustainability and governance, customer, partnership, team development, leadership, and a personal commitment to continuously learn through new experiences and creating new possibilities that enable change.
Pandemics have been around forever.
Hunter New England Health Infectious Disease physician and Director of HMRI’s Infection Research Program, Professor Joshua Davis says, “As long as humans encroach on habitat, eat animal products, travel globally or have anything to with bats, we are going to continue to experience pandemics.”
So how can we predict and monitor this? The answer is simple: surveillance.
HMRI Researcher of the Year, Professor Zsolt Balogh, wants polytrauma recognised as a disease. His international peers are in agreement with him on this concept.
When somebody experiences a stroke, every minute counts and being aware of the signs and symptoms is a critical factor to help achieve the best health outcomes for stroke patients.
HMRI supporter Alice Ginns had one of HMRI's stroke awareness magnets on her fridge and she shares her story about how that constant reminder helped save her husband's life when he experienced a stroke.
Population Health researcher, Dr Rachel Sutherland’s SWAP It program has been named in the 10 of the Best research programs at the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) annual Research Excellence Awards Dinner held in Canberra tonight.
Introducing Dr Elissa Jane Elvidge, a public health researcher working on the ‘Breathe for Bub’ program that aims to co-design culturally safe and clinically effective care for Aboriginal women with asthma during pregnancy.
Dementia is a massive burden of illness. The best approach is prevention and to keep our loved ones as healthy as possible leading up to older age. HMRI is the only regional site outside of a capital city in Australia for the AHEAD-345 (Lecanemab) trial.
A University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Local Health District partnership working to strengthen field epidemiology capacity, disease surveillance and outbreak response in the Pacific for the past 10 years has been awarded $7.5m in Australian Government funding to continue their important
work supporting public health training programs in the region.