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The Paxton team is led by Sean Chung, Rob Gilbert and Julian Maiolo and has been established since 1999.
The company comprises a team of professional consultants with extensive expertise and experience from having worked within the industry and as advisors to State and Federal Health Departments, insurers, and public and private health care providers.
Julian has over 25 years of health care experience as both an industry executive and senior advisor across the Australian Health sector. Prior to joining Paxton Partners his experience included 15 years’ experience as a manager and Senior Executive in major metropolitan Health Services, followed by four years in senior roles in the Health and Human Services practice at KPMG. Julian’s background also includes three years as a specialist clinical costing and financial management system consulting experience.
His knowledge of the sector extends across strategic, operational and technical domains of Health care management. Julian has provided advisory and commercial advice to a range of Australian public and private health service providers and to state and federal levels of Government
Julian’s particular interest is to work with providers, funders and related associations in finding ways to reduce economic and structural impediments that limit the ability to promote more seamless service delivery across the health and community sector as well as working with organisations to improve healthcare financial management capability.
Rob has over 25 years’ experience in the Australian health care sector providing organisational and business process consulting in relation to performance management and reporting, strategic planning, costing analysis, shared services, funding models, risk management, organisational financial management capability, financial analysis and due diligence.
Rob’s clients include all segments of the industry including public and private hospitals, mental health providers, primary health providers, suppliers and funders at a Commonwealth and State level.
In particular, Rob has extensive experience in consulting to the diagnostic sector (pathology, medical imaging and radiation oncology) working with funders and providers in both public and private settings in multiple jurisdictions to develop governance and business models at both a statewide and individual provider level. Rob also has extensive experience in developing costing models for statewide diagnostic services as well as individual service providers in multiple jurisdictions dealing with complex funding arrangements including the application of Medicare Benefits Schedule billing rules.
Sean has over ten years of consulting experience, which includes six years with the Healthcare and Human Services practice of KPMG, across both Australia and Canada. Prior to entering consulting, Sean spent four years in academic health research.
Sean is adept at engaging with stakeholders across the continuum of healthcare service provision, from senior healthcare executives to front line healthcare service providers. His project work has included engagements across all levels of the healthcare system from federal government to operationally within the health system, covering strategic planning, health service and program evaluations, clinical process redesign, development of funding models, health IT/IM strategy, business cases and development of performance and outcomes management frameworks.
Sean has particular interests in the formation and evaluation of collaborative networks to improve health service delivery and the use of technology to facilitate better understanding and management of health and human services clients and system performance.
Complementing his healthcare experience, Sean has worked with government clients in Alcohol and Drug Services, Justice, Education, Child and Youth Services and Community Services.
Dean has over ten years of professional experience, including almost six years within the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance and two years consulting to the Australian health care sector with a small firm based in Sydney.
Through his health care consulting experience, Dean has developed a refined knowledge of public health systems across Australia. He has managed a wide range of consulting assignments including population health needs assessments, project and program evaluations, strategic / service plans, funding model development, financial improvement and business / organisational review projects.
Dean's capacity to add value to these projects is most evident in his ability to apply a structured, methodologically-sound approach to project management and delivery. Dean is attentive and responsive to his clients' needs, and aims to work in genuine partnership with them to execute all projects to a consistently high standard.
Dean has specific interests in using data to improve decision-making across the health sector and in rural / regional healthcare planning and service delivery.
Mia has more than 20 years’ experience working in youth justice, education and public health sectors in operational management, consulting and governance roles. Prior to her consulting roles, Mia held a senior position at a regional Medicare Local and worked in a NSW Local Health District. She has expertise in emerging funding models, system redesign, and robust measurement of quadruple aim outcomes.
Mia has worked with government and non-government agencies including the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, GP Synergy, Western NSW Medicare Local, North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network, Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, Western NSW Health Intelligence Unit and Marathon Health.
Mia is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves on two not-for-profit boards in the disability and public health sectors. She is a Conjoint Lecturer with the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle.
Mia is passionate about health and social equity, and have practical experience working alongside Aboriginal and other culturally diverse communities across Australia and internationally.
Nilusha has over ten years’ professional experience across State and Federal Government, predominately in the health portfolio, both as a public servant and as a professional service consultant.
Nilusha is a qualified Accountant with highly developed skills in framework design, development and implementation, intergovernmental relations, and delivering Government-wide strategic and operational documents and processes, based on a strong analytical and financial aptitude and Government understanding.
Her strength is developing and maintaining productive partnerships in her approachable, pleasant and enthusiastic manner.
Accompanying her Health experience, Nilusha has also worked for clients in the Disability, Aged Care, Finance, Environment and Human Services portfolios.
Tracey has over 25 years’ direct industry experience in the Australian health care sector, specifically the public and private diagnostic pathology and hospital sectors. Prior to joining Paxton Partners, Tracey spent 10 years at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Tracey has extensive experience in operating across multiple disciplines, with experience in project management and implementation, business case development, tender bid development and analysis, business modelling, financial analysis, performance improvement and budget and report development.
Tracey is adept at using this experience to assess performance and has a highly effective ability to translate data into information to support decision-making. Tracey is able to efficiently and effectively analyse a broad range of data, and engender cooperation and commitment from diverse stakeholder groups.
Philip has over seven years of experience working in various healthcare roles from clinician to health technology product development and health consulting. Philip is a graduate of the doctor of physiotherapy program at the University of Melbourne and has a variety of clinical experiences in both hospital and community settings.
Philip was a 2014 Melbourne University entrepreneurial fellow where he was mentored by medical technology industry experts. Prior to Paxton Partners, Philip worked on commercialising health technology at a medical device start-up based at the University.
Philip is recognised as a leader in the emerging digital health industry and his work on building a low-cost sensor for walking frames to prevent falls in the elderly has led to numerous industry awards and frequent invitations to speak at conferences on the topic of eHealth and digital health opportunities.
Philip’s project work has covered multiple levels of Australia’s healthcare system from State Government to health service providers, including work on program evaluations, clinical process and governance redesign and modelling.
Philip is passionate about technology applications to improve service delivery and translating research into clinical care improvements.
Christina has over 11 years of direct industry experience in Australian hospitals as both clinician and financial adviser.
Christina also has considerable experience in the financial sector, where her last position was as an investment banking professional in the UK.
She is well versed in the Victorian Health finance sector and relevant Victorian Government health policy, with her work in public hospital finance covering diverse stakeholder consultations, developing and evaluating business cases, and designing and implementing financial improvement plans.
Daniel has seven years’ experience working in financial management across a range of roles and organisations. Before moving into management consulting, Daniel was teaching financial modelling and corporate finance in La Trobe University’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.
As a management consultant, Daniel has worked across a range of sectors but most extensively in the healthcare industry. He has applied his financial modeling and statistical optimisation skillset to help clients achieve efficiencies, reduce costs and discover sustainable improvement opportunities in their operating and finance functions.
Gabi assumes the role of Office Manager and receptionist for Paxton Partners.
Gabi has previously worked as an Office Manager within small business within the pharmaceutical, design and education industries. Her quality administrative and project support skills are a great asset to the Paxton Partners team.
Contact Paxton Partners Healthcare Management Consultants to make a general enquiry or appointment.
Call us on (03) 9291 3600 or fill out the form and a member of our staff will be in contact with you as soon as possible.
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