Professor Harvey Newnham
MBBS, FRACP, PhD, GAICD
Occupation: General Physician and Endocrinologist
Harvey is an Endocrinologist and General Physician with extensive clinical leadership and board experience in the acute health sector. Harvey has been chair of the HEAL board since 2011. He has been a board member of Melbourne Health (Royal Melbourne Hospital) since 2017 and joined the Bass Coast Health board in 2022. Harvey was a board member of Better Care Victoria from 2016-2020. Harvey is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Harvey is experienced in organisational and unit review at Health Department, Hospital and Clinical Unit level. Harvey was the clinician on the writing panel of “Targeting Zero Harm” review of Hospital Safety and Quality Assurance in Victoria in 2016 led by Stephen Duckett of the Grattan Institute. Harvey’s main interests are to improve the safety, quality and value proposition of acute medical care with particular emphasis on internal audit of clinical services, patient engagement and interdisciplinary teamwork. In 2014 Harvey completed Brent James's “Advanced Training Program in Health Care Delivery Improvement" at the Intermountain Institute of Healthcare Delivery Research, Salt Lake City, USA.
Harvey was Program Director of Emergency and Acute Medicine at Alfred Health from 2009-2020 and Director of General Medicine there from 2007-2022. Harvey is an Adjunct Clinical Professor with Monash University. In his earlier career, Harvey was Director of Internal Medicine at Eastern Health and was extensively involved in education, developing both the undergraduate medical student program and the physician training program there. He was also chair of the Endocrinology Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). Harvey has served for many years as a senior member of the National Examining Panel of the RACP.