 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OPERATIONSMr John Ferraro (Acting) John Ferraro commenced with Western Health in August 2021 as Deputy Executive Director Operations before stepping into the Executive Director Operations (Acting) role.
John has more than 20 years’ experience in health including senior executive appointments at Austin Health as the Interim Chief Operating Officer, Eastern Health as the Executive Director Clinical Operations and most recently at the Department of Health as the Executive Director Commissioning and Logistics for Victoria’s vaccination program.
In addition to his extensive operational and executive experience, John has significant corporate governance expertise. He was previously the Board Chair of Banyule Community Health Service for 10 years, former Chair of the Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Care Collaborative Governance Group and a former Board Director of the Victorian Deaf Society.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NURSING AND MIDWIFERY Mr Shane Crowe Shane commenced in the role of Executive Director Nursing & Midwifery in September, 2017. He joined us from Austin Health where he was the Acting Chief Nursing Officer. His wide-ranging experience in nursing workforce leadership and his managerial, interpersonal and analytical skills, combined with his extensive clinical knowledge, network and project management skills, are valuable attributes in the role. In a previous role, as Project Director of the Olivia Newton John Cancer & Wellness Centre Transition, Shane led the development and implementation of the new model of care and the commissioning and opening of the facility. Shane worked with the Department of Health and Human Services on an extended secondment, as Manager of Workforce Innovation and Reform and led the development and successful introduction of the Safe Patient Care (Nurse and Midwife to Patients Ratios) Act 2015 in Victoria. During 2016, Shane served as Director, Support Services and Project Director for the Commissioning of a Short Stay Unit/Psychiatric Assessment and Planning Unit at the Austin.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER Dr Nicola (Nicki) Murdock Dr Nicola (Nicki) Murdock commenced at Western Health in February 2022 as the Chief Medical Officer.
Nicki had recently returned from the UK where she worked as the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Acting Deputy Chief Executive of the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Prior to moving to the UK, Nicki held the position of Executive Director Medical Services at the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, previously at the Gladstone Hospital in Queensland. While at Gladstone Hospital she worked concurrently as a specialist paediatrician.
Nicki has strong strategic and clinical governance skills and has a passion for innovation and transformational change. She holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK. | 
