TELEHEALTH CONFERENCE 2011 Speakers
Dr Mukesh Haikerwal National Clinical Lead, National E-Health Transition Authority, Australia
Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is a practicing General Medical Practitioner, Commissioner to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission and Professor in the School of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently working with the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) as the National Clinical Lead, leading a team of healthcare providers from multi disciplinary backgrounds, to assist in NEHTA's liaison with the healthcare community and to provide input into the development of the NEHTA work program to deliver e-health for Australia.
In 2011 Dr Haikerwal was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical administration, to the promotion of public health through leadership roles with professional organisations, particularly the Australian Medical Association (AMA) to the reform of the Australian health system through the optimisation of information technology, and as a general practitioner. He was the former head of the Federal AMA that is responsible for national policy development, lobbying with federal parliamentarians, co-ordinating activity across the AMA State entities and representing the AMA and its members nationally and internationally.