Kathy joined QCIF in March 2016 (with a break from 2020-2023) as a senior health informatician and data scientist following 30 years of working in digital health informatics and research across diverse health disciplines and services with experience at policy program and operational levels in Australia and Scotland.

She attended the Western Australian School of Nursing and obtained a Hospital Diploma in Nursing, before nursing education moved to universities. She is an Australian Registered Nurse (AHPRA) and practiced clinically for 15 years, as an RN in Australia, including remote and rural in the Kimberley), England, Scotland, Saudi Arabia, as a volunteer in Nepal with UNICEF/Save the Children Fund, and a Specialist Community and Public Health Nurse (UK) prior to entering the eHealth world. Kathy studied at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland, University of Wales (Aberystwyth) UK, Australian Catholic University (Brisbane) and The University of Queensland, Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth.

Kathy's focus is on using her knowledge and skills to improve health outcomes for the population through enabling quality research infrastructures to support researchers, health services, policy makers, community and health consumers. Specifically, decreasing research waste and promoting research data sharing, support new knowledge translation to best healthcare and individual practices.

When Kathy is not working, she enjoys light gardening, swimming, music, listening to fabulous programs on ABC Radio National, and of course having a holiday. Having a role as a carer, she is also a consumer advocate and representative translating real world lived experience to health systems and to researchers.