President Elect, Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators; National Director of Medical Services, Calvary Health Care, Australia

Professor Erwin Loh is President Elect of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and National Director of Medical Services for Calvary Health Care, with 10 private hospitals, 3 public hospitals and 80 aged care facilities. Prior to that, he was Chief Medical Officer at Goulburn Valley Health, National Chief Medical Officer and Group General Manager Clinical Governance for St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s largest not-for-profit health provider, and Chief Medical Officer of Monash Health, Victoria’s largest health service.

He is qualified in both medicine and law, with general and specialist registration as a medical practitioner (medical administration specialty) and is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia. He also has an MBA, Master of Health Service Management, and PhD.

He is currently a director on the board of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Healthshare Victoria and the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. He has previously been a director on the boards of St Vincent’s Institute, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash Health Research Precinct Pty Ltd, Australian Medical Association (Victoria) and Law Institute of Victoria. He is a Graduate and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He is Professor at Monash University, where he leads the Clinical Leadership and Management Unit at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. He is Honorary Clinical Professor with the title of Professor at the Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne. He is Honorary Professor at Macquarie University at the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research.

He teaches and carries out research in health law, health management and clinical leadership. He has been an invited speaker at local and international conferences, published on health law, medical management, and health technology, and is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, with an interest in medical futurology.

He received the Distinguished Fellow Award from RACMA in 2017 for “commitment to governance, research and publication”.