Community Advisory Committee
The Community Advisory Committee (CAC) is a committee of the Alfred Health Board, which provides a link between Alfred Health and the community.
Ms Chloe Shorten
Ms Shorten has been an executive in the engineering, resources and technology industries, advising boards on media, investor, government and community relations. She has commercial expertise in reputational risk management.
Kevin Boyce
Kevin Boyce was a business owner until he sustained a significant injury almost 20 years ago. He has lived experience with the Alfred Trauma Service and is now an advocate for people living with disability and visual impairment.
Ms Carol Gordon
Ms Gordon has had a long career in human resources (HR) management in the agricultural and finance sectors.
Irene Havryluk-Davies
Irene has been involved with Alfred Health since 2008 as a carer and advocate for her late husband until 2016.
Mrs Kay Currie
Kay trained as a psychologist and has qualifications in Public Health with a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from Monash University.
Ms Kim Hungerford
Kim’s professional background is in Deaf awareness and interpreter training and creative arts.
Mr Terry McNamara
Terry’s professional background is in electrical engineering. He has been a patient at The Alfred since 2014.
Mr Lynton Norris
Mr Norris is a consultant and experienced company director. He is a recognised leader in funding and payment models, compliance and performance reporting, policy development and complex data analysis and analytics.
Ms Kaye McNaught
Ms McNaught has over 20 years’ experience working in the public health system.
Ms Amtur Rafiq
Amtur has been a patient at The Alfred since 2012 and in 2017 underwent a double lung transplant.
Ms Kriss Will
Kriss has been a patient of the Alfred since 2014. Due to her degenerative neurological illness, she is a regular patient of the following clinics – Functional Gut Disorder/Gastroenterology, PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy aka feeding tube), Neurology, Respiratory, Sleep and Syncope.
Established in 2000, the aim of the Committee is to bring community members and consumers into decision-making processes at Alfred Health. Members help to develop services that are responsive to the needs of our diverse patient catchment population. The CAC also oversees the development and implementation of the Community Participation Plan.
The Committee is comprised of up to 10 community members and two Alfred Health Board members and meets at least six times a year.
How to become a member
The best way to become a member of the Committee is to join the Alfred Health Consumer Register as a volunteer. We advertise for new committee members approximately every three years. For more information, call the Manager of Patient Experience and Community Participation Program on 03 9076 2409 or email communityparticipation@alfred.org.au.