Paul Cradick – ethoss

Paul is a founding member of ethoss Performance Management, a Performance Management, Profitability Management and Business Intelligence solution provider to both private and public sectors.

Paul has lead solution implementations in Performance Management and Value Based Management solutions for the past twelve years, utilising his Industrial Engineering background to influence cohesion between operational and financial environments.

Primary solution experience includes Activity Based Costing, Budgeting / Planning / Forecasting, Performance Management and Balanced Scorecarding, Simulation, Process-Re-Engineering and Business Intelligence. Healthcare experience includes work for a leading private healthcare hospital group, HASA, various public hospitals and Provincial Health advisory services. Paul has also co-authored papers for National Treasury with regards to Costing, Budgeting and Performance Management.

Cobus Stander – EOH Consulting

Cobus trained as a Chartered Accountant with a leading Audit Firm in Johannesburg, which included a secondment to the Sydney office.

Cobus has been involved in, and lead many consulting assignments in the Public Sector Healthcare arena in South Africa, as well as leading one assignment is Sub-Saharan Africa, for one of the leading pharmaceutical producers in the world.

These engagements have ranged from private sector assignments (medical schemes, pharmaceutical companies, private hospitals projects & medical scheme administrators) to high-profile public sector assignments (public hospitals, provincial departments as well as other state-owned enterprises). Cobus has also published an article on Informatics in SA hospitals in a Computing magazine.

Dr Ashwin Hurribunce

Academic Qualifications

Ashwin attained his MB ChB at the University of Natal’s Faculty of Medicine, now the N.R. Mandela School of Medicine. He obtained the FF Rad (D) SA from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, a specialist qualification as a Radiologist; and a MBA from the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. He also obtained the highest military qualification for Generals, JSC (SANDF).

Professional background and workplace experience Ashwin practiced as a Specialist Radiologist in Prince Mshiyeni Memorial, RK Khans/King Edward VIII and Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospitals, where he was appointed Senior Specialist/Lecturer. He was the Head of Department of Neuro- and Interventional Radiology and Head of Academic Training at the University of Witwatersrand. He also served on the Faculty Board and Committees of both Universities of Natal and WITS. His current extramural appointments include being a lecturer in Radiology at the Universities of Witwatersrand, Pretoria and MEDUNSA, adviser to the Minister of Health on Health Technology, member of the Senate of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (1998-2008), President of the College of Radiologists (2006-2008) and Trustee of the Colleges of Medicine Foundation. He’s also a member of the Black Management Forum of South Africa.

His military career began with attesting to Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1979. He served on various missions until its decommissioning in December 1993. The rest of his military career was served in the South African National Defence Force, having held appointments as Director Training in the South African Military Health Service, first top command as Chief of Joint Training assuming overall responsibility for training; followed by his second top command as the Chief of Command and Management Information Systems responsible for the command and control capability of the Force. He retired from the SANDF on 31st March 2006 in the rank of Major General, and retains his Presidential Commission.

During South Africa’s transition into democracy, he was a member of the education, health, military and security technical expert teams during national negotiations representing the ANC and in the Transitional Executive Council also serving in its National Peacekeeping Force. He was a member of the of the African National Congress Health Department heading two policy commissions, and member of the multidisciplinary team that formulated the ANC’s Reconstruction and Development Programme and Health Plan. The highlight of this participation culminated in his appointment as Head of Security and Health for President Mandela’s Inauguration in May 1994, serving also as his envoy and aide de camp. He was a member of numerous expert teams that pioneered the new design and establishment of the SANDF and the Department of Defence. He was the principal architect and implementer of new operational designs of military operations, training and command and control delivery systems.

He is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and the Dictionary of International Biographies. In 1999 he received formal acknowledgement as one of the Greatest Achievers of the 20th Century, an accolade bestowed on him by the Society of International Biographers. His is currently appointed as an Executive in IQ South Africa responsible for all Health Care and Public Sector Practices, beginning this leg of his career with the IQ Business Group in June 2006. He is also a Trustee of the IQBG Pension Fund.

Ms Kathy Tyacke: Health sector specialist

Kathy Tyacke has an MBA, BSc and BA with nearly 20 years of experience in the public health sector. She worked as a nurse at Johannesburg Hospital, occupational therapist at CH Baragwanath Hospital and Zola Clinic, rehabilitation coordinator at Alexandra clinic. She then worked as a manager in the Gauteng Department of Health for 7 years where she coordinated progammes at hospital and PHC levels. She was integrally involved with developing performance management and monitoring and evaluation systems for services in Gauteng.

Kathy started consulting 8 years ago during which time she has project managed a range of health sector performance evaluations including for the World Bank, National Treasury, UNICEF as well as a range of provincial departments of health.

Ms Judith Matthis: M&E Specialist

Judith Matthis has an Honours Degree in Economics and practical experience and training in Epidemiology.  Before joining KPMG as a health sector M&E specialist, Judith designed M&E systems for a range of public and private health sector organisations. Judith also worked as a researcher and project manager for CIETafrica, an international public health research NGO.  During this time, she was involved in intensive qualitative and quantitative research and results dissemination. She worked on national and provincial studies and project managed a provincial ART study in the Free State province.  Whilst at KPMG, Judith has project managed a number of municipal health service assessments and worked on national programme performance evaluations.

Mrs Gugu Khumalo: Health Sector Specialist

Gugu Khumalo has a MSC qualification in Health Economics and Public Health. She has 9 years experience in research, project manager and policy analysis. Between 2002 and currently Ms Khumalo has been involved in a multiple projects assessing the cost and the quality of health care delivery within central hospitals, provincial hospital and district hospitals.  She has also reviewed the Integrated Health Planning Framework, Annual Performance Plans and the Service Transformation Plans for the National Department of Health hospital costing project.

Dr. TSJ Fisher

Dr Trevor Fisher alumni of Wits University, has 25 years of experience in the Medical field. He completed his internship at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in 1985. He then worked as Medical Officer at Soweto Community Health Clinic for two years and later moved to private practice.  He began his management career at Mamelodi Hospital in 1996 where he worked as Acting Medical Superintendent. He joined the then, Pretoria Academic Hospital as Senior Superintendent for 3 years. He became Chief Executive Officer of Kalafong Hospital in 2005 to 2009.  He is currently Chief Executive Officer at Dr. George Mukhari Hospital, North west Pretoria.  He has acquired extensive management skills having attending course on Health Management; Finance; Human Resources; Labour Relation; HIV Management and Diploma in Family Medicine. He is currently completing a Masters in Public health specializing in hospital Management at Wits University.

He is a specialist in strategic planning, conflict resolution, change management, quality assurance.  He is often invited to give lectures, talks on service delivery and health related topics. He is married to Amalia and they live in Pretoria with their two children.

Keith Douglas Bonsall

Keith has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UNISA majoring in Accounting and Business Economics, and has spent the last 25 years in the private hospital industry.

A period of 12 years was devoted to practicing as a consultant providing specialist hospital management services and management training within the private hospital and health care industry. His consulting focus has been on productivity, performance and profit improvement which embraced strategic planning, benchmarking, process reengineering, organization structuring, management training and assisting in the implementation of recommended changes.

Keith has also spent some time in the United States studying hospital management processes and systems, particularly with the emphasis on productivity, cost and profit performance within a Managed Care and strong cost driven environment.

During the last 5 years he had responsibility for the development and commissioning of a 250 bed high tech private hospital in Durban (Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre which opened in July 2008, and he is currently responsible for the commissioning of the 200 bed Hillcrest Private Hospital presently under construction.

Keith has authored a number of training programmes for the Foundation for Professional Development that includes Risk Management, Case Management and Marketing. He has also authored papers that have been presented at many health care conferences, is an honorary member of the Forum for Professional Nurse Leaders and a founder director of the Case Manager Association of South Africa.

Outside the hospital industry, 11 years have been spent as a part-time lecturer presenting Business Management and Marketing Management Courses for Damelin Management School.