Current Members of the Executive Committee
President: Linda Trompf
Vice President: Karin Calford
Treasurer: Tony Krizan
Members: Emma Baldock, Jo Bothroyd, Izzy Moss, Karen McKernan, Miriam Pavic and Keith Willenberg.
Linda Trompf – President
Linda has a background in health with more than 30 years’ experience in both direct service delivery and as a senior policy officer in the ACT Health Directorate. Linda has always been committed to focussing on the needs of consumers at both the individual and systemic level.
After retiring from full-time employment Linda joined HCCA in 2015 to seek ways to continue to represent consumer needs and advocate for consumer empowerment and partnership in the health care sector. Linda has been chair of HCCA’s Health Policy and Research Committee and a member of the Quality and Safety Consumer Reference Group, and was elected as President at the 2022 Annual General Meeting. She also represents HCCA on the Canberra Health Services Blood Management Committee and the BreastScreen ACT Consumer Reference Group.
Karin Calford – Vice President
Karin has a long history of health consumer advocacy, through Haemochromatosis Australia (HA), Health Consumers NSW and HCCA. She has been a member of HCCA since 2018 and joined the Executive Committee in November 2022. Karin is an experienced consumer representative and has participated in committee and project work at both the local and national level.
Karin is passionate about health literacy, from both the system perspective and the individual consumer perspective. She believes health consumers have a role to play in advocating for and participating in a fit-for purpose health system at both the primary and tertiary care level.
Tony Krizan – Treasurer
Tony Krizan, FCPA, is a former senior public servant with extensive experience across a number of industries and 32 years in the public sector across a broad range of policy, program and corporate roles in the Finance, Employment, Education and Training and the Health and Ageing portfolios.
Tony also has extensive experience on governance, audit and risk committees across government and the professional and community sectors.
Emma Baldock
Emma has a background in health; in clinical health service delivery, counselling, research, education, community development, and health professional regulation. Working in primary health care and as a former homebirth midwife, she has always had a passion for the provision of responsive health care from individual, professional and quality healthcare delivery perspectives.
Now retired from working in clinical roles she joined HCCA to bring her experiences both as a provider and consumer of health services to contribute to advocacy and consumer empowerment and the vital work of HCCA. She has served on several health advisory committees. Emma has recently joined HCCA’s Health Policy and Research Committee and is the Consumer Representative on the Canberra Region Medical Education Council.
Izzy Moss
Izzy Moss is a young Queer advocate for equity in health policy, with a strong background in the disability space. Izzy is the Secretary of Women with Disabilities ACT and the Co-Founder of the Rainbow Bee-Eaters LGBTIQA+ Group, a community group connecting Queer Canberrans to community and providing a safe space for outdoors activities and bird conservation.
Izzy has a double degree in Science (majoring in Genetics) and Arts (majoring in Sociology) from the Australian National University, with a focus of empowering disabled people in medical policy and healthcare.
Izzy has advised major organisations on their Queer and disability policies, and spearheaded major policy reform including the transgender inclusivity policy that is currently utilised by the ANU Queer Department.
Izzy has also worked in pastoral care positions at ANU, and as the Human Relations Officer for the Canberra Students Housing Cooperative.
Jo Bothroyd
Jo’s first insights into of the many problems that negatively affect outcomes for health consumers’ was in the mid-1990s when she was worked in Commonwealth Health on issues related to users’ access and equity to health services.
Jo was HCCA’s Executive Director for a short period in 2003-4 and was Convenor of the Women’s Centre for Health Matters ACT. She joined HCCA in 2002 and has served on many ACT health committees as a HCCA community representative. She has a special interest in strengthening consumer representation in Clinical Review, the consumer’s role in health service planning and development and in improvements heath literacy in our increasingly complex health system.
Karen McKernan
Karen joined the Executive Committee in 2021 and has been a member of the Health Care Consumers’ Association since 2016.
She currently works in the community sector for an organisation that supports people with mental illness and is passionate about helping others. Prior to her current role, Karen worked in several public service roles for over 14 years and spent about 6 of these years working on health policy.
Through her own and her family’s various illnesses and injuries, she has had extensive experience of the health system in the ACT and New South Wales and brings this perspective to her role on the Executive Committee.
Keith Willenberg
Keith became a member of HCCA in February 2024 and was elected to the EC in November 2024. Keith is a consumer representative on the ACT Health Technology Assessment Committee and is a member of HCCA’s Quality and Safety Consumer Reference Group.
Keith is an engineer by profession, with qualifications and experience in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering. He has many years of experience as an engineering specialist in a government-owned organisation within the Civil Aviation industry delivering development, support and management of technical systems. Early in his career Keith worked in hospitals as a Biomedical Engineer providing technical support to various departments including Radiation Therapy, Nuclear Medicine and Neonatal Intensive Care.
Miriam Pavic
Miriam has been a member of HCCA since 2019 and was elected to the EC in November 2024. She believes health consumers have a role to play in advocating for safe, high quality health care. Miriam is a member of HCCA’s Consumer Participation Committee and Quality and Safety Consumer Reference Group.
Miriam was a nurse and midwife and brings her expertise to consumer representative roles on Gynaecology and Maternity, and Pathology committees for Canberra Health Services. She has also been involved in health infrastructure projects, including refurbishment of the birthing centre and maternity wards at The Canberra Hospital.