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Board of directors
Rosemary Calder AM
Interim Board Chair
Professor Rosemary Calder AM is a founding member of
Continence Health Australia and a leader in health and aged care policy. She is Director of the Australian Health Policy Collaboration at Victoria University and has held senior roles in both state and federal health departments.
Lesley Barton
Director
Lesley Barton is a qualified Continence Nurse Specialist, Midwife and Educator with expertise in continence care, skin health and wound management. She contributes nationally and internationally through education, clinical governance and auditing, and chairs key committees supporting quality, research and strategic initiatives.
Celia Bolton
Director
Celia Bolton, a physiotherapist since 1998, has served on the Continence Health Australia Board since 2021. Her career spans public and private hospitals, a pelvic pain clinic and 25 years in private practice. She brings expertise in pain neuroscience and trauma-informed care and holds an AICD Company Directors qualification.
Jacinta Crickmore
Director
Jacinta Crickmore draws on her healthcare sales
background and long-standing involvement with Continence Health Australia. She chairs the Consumer Advisory Committee and serves on the Board as a consumer representative, advocating for improved
experiences for people living with incontinence.
Kate Moore
Director
Professor Kate Moore is an Emeritus Professor at UNSW
and founding Director of the Pelvic Floor Unit at St George Hospital. A member of Continence Health Australia since 1991, she chairs the Education Committee and focuses her research on detrusor overactivity and bacterial cystitis.
Irmina Nahon
Director
Claire Richards
Director
Claire Richards is a Partner at KPMG with expertise in risk,
governance and compliance. She advises the health, ageing, disability and education sectors, focusing on integrity and community trust in service outcomes.
Dr Kathryn Sloots
Director
Dr Kathryn Sloots is a Registered Nurse and researcher with expertise in bowel and bladder continence care. She has published widely, presented at conferences, and contributes to national and state committees of Continence Health Australia.
Subcommittees of the Board
Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee
- Claire Richards (Chair)
- Lesley Barton
- Michael Corry
- Jacinta Crickmore
Consumer Advisory Committee
- Jacinta Crickmore (Chair)
- Audrey Burgin
- Leanne Murphy
- Ashley Reed
- Kathryn Sloots
- Alan White
- Bethia Wilson
- Christin Young
Read about the Consumer Advisory Committee and its members.
Policy Advisory Committee
- Professor Rosemary Calder AM (Chair)
- Odette Gaynor
- Claire Hobson
- Kate Kerr
- Sophia Petrov
- Claire Richards
- Kathryn Sloots
- Alan White
Australian & New Zealand Continence Journal Committee
- Associate Professor Christian Moro (Chair and Editor)
- Associate Professor Wendy Bower
- Associate Professor Russ Chess-Williams
- Jean Hay-Smith
- Anna Lawrence
- Professor Kate Moore
- Charlotte Phelps
- Sarah Tayler (Managing Editor)
- Associate Professor Vincent Tse
- Elizabeth Watt
- Laura Fear (Continence New Zealand)
Constitution
The Constitution of Continence Health Australia guides our work and commitment to continence care.
Executive team
Jim Cooper
Chief Executive Officer
Suzie Bratuskins
General Manager Operations
Sarah Church
General Manager Education
Ralston Drieberg
General Manager Finance
Fiona McQueen
General Manager Marketing and Communications
Renee Shepherd
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Life members
Life membership is awarded in recognition of an outstanding contribution to Continence Health Australia.
- Bethia Wilson AM
- Ian Tucker
- Michael Murray
- Pauline Chiarelli
- Stan Wisniewski
- Jan Paterson
- Glenice Wilson
- Richard Millard
- George Szonyi