DonateLife New South Wales

General Manager - Caroline Curtin

Caroline Curtin comes with a wealth of leadership experience in health and was most recently Chief Customer Officer at Healthdirect Australia. Caroline was an integral part of Healthdirect Australia's highly successful pandemic response. Caroline has lead teams across strategy, digital content, privacy, analytics, marketing and communications at a time of rapidly changing national policy and consumer needs.

Caroline has delivered many high profile strategic, policy and operational initiatives for State, Commonwealth, and Non Government Health Agencies.

Complex health system change, primary care policy, employee empowerment and gentle change management are her forte.

Co-State Medical Director – Associate Professor Elena Cavazzoni

Associate Professor Elena Cavazzoni is a Staff Specialist working in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. She completed her medical degree and PhD at the University of Sheffield and trained as a paediatrician in London. In 2005 she moved to Brisbane, where she began her training in paediatric critical care and in 2010 she became a Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.

Elena’s interests are in organ and tissue donation (family donation communications, utilisation of non-standard donors, paediatric organ donation), transplantation medicine, transfusion medicine, neurocritical care and palliative care.

Co-State Medical Director – Dr Michael O’Leary

Dr Michael O'Leary is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Intensive Care Service, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and a Visiting Medical Officer in Intensive Care at St George Private Hospital, Sydney.

He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.

Michael has had a longstanding interest in organ donation and transplantation that commenced in the early days of his intensive care training in Cambridge, UK, with involvement in the liver transplantation program. He represented St George Hospital, Sydney, on the National Organ Donation Collaborative and was a member of the NSW State Liaison Committee for Organ Donation from 1999 to 2009.

Director of Nursing & Clinical Services – Juliana Celcer

Juliana Celcer oversees the NSW network of donation specialist nurses and coordinators as well as the Donor Family Support Service. As part of the Executive team, she provides leadership and direction to support best clinical practice and improvements in organ donation.

Juliana has extensive experience in intensive care, clinical governance and senior health management. She has a keen interest in organ donation and transplantation and was an executive sponsor during the National Organ Donation Collaborative.