2019 - 2020 ✧ Pacific International Hospital, Port Moresby, PNG - Medical Director / CMO & Head of Cardiac Surgery

Appointed to reorganise this tertiary private hospital. All medical staff — including doctors, nurses and technicians — as well as auxiliary services such as Pharmacy, Medical Records, Radiology, Laboratory, Pathology and Blood Banking, reported directly to me. My principal remit was to restructure patient services in order to improve quality and clinical outcomes, and to prepare the hospital for accreditation by establishing a substantial clinical governance and quality assurance programme. 

I was also responsible for assembling and organising a cardiac team to launch the country’s only cardiac surgery service. In addition, I oversaw the hospital’s public relations activities, introduced new marketing initiatives, and established training programmes for young local doctors.

Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting need for quarantine hospital and intensive care capacity in Port Moresby, the cardiac surgery programme was discontinued. With the declaration of a state of emergency in Papua New Guinea, I subsequently left the country.