Brooke Shelly FPS is a rural Victorian pharmacist with a dynamic portfolio career spanning General Practice, credentialed medication management and residential medication management reviews, and multidisciplinary telehealth. She is a GP Pharmacist at Ontario Medical Clinic, a Senior Clinical Pharmacist with Beyond Pain, and the sole proprietor of MyMedManagement, delivering complex medication and residential medication management reviews across regional and remote areas.

In 2024, Brooke was named PSA Consultant Pharmacist of the Year and elevated to Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at La Trobe Rural Health School, serves on the Murray PHN Clinical Advisory Council, sits on the Advisory Network for the National Rural Health Commissioner, and is a member of the Monash Rural Health School Community Advisory Council. Brooke has previously held board positions with Pharmacy Support Services (PSS) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria (PSV).

Known for her leadership in rural health advocacy, Brooke is passionate about embedding pharmacists within multidisciplinary teams to improve access and outcomes, particularly for rural communities.

Brooke brings clinical expertise, governance experience, and a deep commitment to health equity to her role on the PSA National Board.

Matthew Tweedie has over 30 years’ experience as an executive and non-executive director in the public, private and NGO health and community sectors in Western Australia. His strengths lie in communications and government relations, stakeholder management, organisational leadership, strategy development, and strategic advocacy. He has a wide network of political and community leaders within Western Australia.

Matt was Director of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia WA from 2008 to 2023, an influential peak body that exists to promote and advocate for the Community Pharmacy sector dedicated to improving access to primary health care for all West Australians.  Previous executive roles include:

• CEO Canning Division of General Practice;
• Health Services Manager Kimberley Health Service
• Executive Director of the Asthma Foundation of WA
• Football Manager West Perth Football Club

In addition to his executive experience, Matt has experience in board directorship. His past appointments include:

• Director Rural Health West (current)
• Member Finance and Risk Management Committee Rural Health West (current)
• Director Rockingham Kwinana Division of General Practice
• Deputy Chair 360 Health
• Director WAPHA

Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education (BPE UWA) and post-graduate qualifications in education (DipEd WA) and company directorship (GAICD). Throughout his career, Matt has maintained a strong focus on the planning and delivery of primary and tertiary health care with a strong interest in delivery of services into rural and remote WA.

The Hon. Bronnie Taylor is a board director, executive advisor and former NSW Government Cabinet, combining clinical healthcare expertise, regional insight, and national leadership experience. In government, she helped shape responses to natural disasters and COVID-19, and led reforms, including a $16.5 billion women’s economic package and the expansion of women’s health services. Today, she serves on national boards and provides advice on women’s health, regional development, and ethical leadership, focused on helping organisations create lasting community impact.

A/Prof John Smithson is a senior academic leader, prescribing pharmacist, and registered nurse with more than 30 years of clinical experience and over two decades of leadership in health education and workforce development. He is currently Head of Pharmacy at James Cook University, where he leads a nationally recognised, multi-campus pharmacy program serving regional, rural, and remote communities.

A/Prof Smithson has made a substantial contribution to national scope of practice reform and pharmacist prescribing education. He continues to practise weekly as a prescribing pharmacist in community pharmacy, ensuring his leadership, teaching, and policy contributions remain firmly grounded in contemporary clinical care.

His professional interests span advanced clinical practice, prescribing education, workforce capability, and simulation-enhanced learning. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and has led significant government-funded initiatives supporting pharmacist prescribing and service transformation.

A/Prof Smithson brings extensive governance experience across university, professional, and community sectors, including service on national accreditation and regulatory bodies. He has held a range of senior academic leadership roles, contributing to accreditation, curriculum renewal, and quality assurance across multiple health disciplines. He is committed to strengthening the pharmacy profession’s role in delivering accessible, high-quality patient care.

Donna is an experienced Board Director, CEO and Executive across public and private health. education, and community services sectors.

Donna is currently CEO of True Relationships and Reproductive Health, and a Board Director at McLean Care and Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia.

She has previously held multiple executive leadership roles across the Mater Group including 12 years as CEO and Executive Director of Mater Education for 12 years – a large, commercial, not-for-profit Registered Training Organisation delivering accredited and non-accredited training for the health and community services workforce.

In 2021, she was asked to join Queensland’s COVID-19 Vaccination Taskforce, to establish and lead the Queensland’s COVID-19 Vaccination Command Centre, coordinating the roll out of the state’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

Donna is immediate past Board Chair of Jobs Queensland, a Board Director at the Australasian College of Pharmacy, Chaired the Queensland Care Consortium, and was a member of the Queensland Workforce Strategy Roundtable.  She is dedicated to optimising the scope of practice for the healthcare workforce, professional skills development, and strategic workforce planning for all pharmacy professionals.

Graduating with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Curtin University, Dr Ayomide Ogundipe completed her internship with Pharmacy 777 Whitford City in Perth, Western Australia. Her passion, organisation and innovation in professional services delivery earned her the national 2019 MIMs PSA Intern Pharmacist of the Year.

Driven by a passion for digital health transformation, Dr Ayomide Ogundipe has completed a PhD at Curtin Medical School, where she focused on evaluating the technological needs of community pharmacists to enable contemporary pharmacy practice. Alongside her research, she serves as a community pharmacist and sessional academic, contributing to the Bachelor and Master of Pharmacy programs at Curtin Medical School. In 2023, Dr Ayomide Ogundipe was awarded PSA WA early career pharmacist of the year, for her contribution to pharmacy practice research and teaching, and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of her commitment to teaching and learning excellence.

Dr Ayomide Ogundipe was elected to the WA Branch Committee in 2020, where she currently serves as Vice President. Having been involved in the state and national Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Early Career Pharmacist (ECP) group, Dr Ayomide Ogundipe is the current PSA ECP Board Appointed Director and chair of the PSA ECP Community of Special Interest. She is also a member of the Membership, Products & Services Committee.

Dr Natalie Soulsby has been a member of the SA Branch Committee for the last 2 years. Dr Natalie Soulsby has a background working as a clinical pharmacist in the acute sector prior to becoming an accredited pharmacist in 2010. She works at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the Multidisciplinary Ambulatory Clinic as part of the Clinical Pharmacology team. Dr Natalie Soulsby is Head of Clinical Excellence, Governance and Quality for Ward Medication Management (WardMM), leading a team of over 40 pharmacists.

She is dedicated to improving medication management especially in the elderly by helping rationalise the prescribing of medications and educating health care professionals. She has been an invited presenter at Aged Care conferences including LASA and ACSA (now ACCPA), and ConPharm, SHPA and PSA. She is involved in training pharmacists, building their clinical knowledge and runs regular CPD sessions for her team. She has been recognized for her work by receiving SA Pharmacist of the Year 2016 and AACP Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2017. In 2019  was awarded the Advanced Pharmacist Practice credential.

.

Dr Amanda Cross is a practising pharmacist and postdoctoral research fellow. Dr Amanda Cross’s research focuses on quality use of medicine, particularly evaluating innovative roles for pharmacists to support safe and effective use of medicines. Dr Amanda Cross has worked in community pharmacy and as a consultant pharmacist, and is currently investigating the roles of on-site aged care pharmacists.

Dr Amanda Cross was a member of the Victorian Branch Committee 2017-2021, including serving as Vice President 2018-2021. In 2019 Dr Amanda Cross was awarded the PSA Victorian Early Career Pharmacist of the year award.

A/Prof Helen Benson is an accredited consultant pharmacist with more than 20 years pharmacy experience. Her varied career has included working as a hospital pharmacist, military pharmacist in the Royal Australian Airforce, community pharmacist and as a community pharmacy owner. Currently A/Prof Helen Benson is working as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice teaching Master of Pharmacy Students at the University of Technology Sydney. A/Prof Helen Benson has a particular interest in improving patient therapy through medication reviews and continues to work as a consultant pharmacist providing medication reviews for referring general practitioners. In 2019 A/Prof Helen Benson completed a PhD investigating the integration of pharmacists in general practice teams in Australia. A/Prof Helen Benson’s current research is focussed on expanding scope of practice within the profession to allow pharmacists to perform their role as medication experts.