Gary Morgan

Gary Morgan

Director Business and International

Contact

C/- The Australian e-Health Research Centre
Level 5, UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
HERSTON QLD 4028

Tel: +61 7 3253 3602
Fax: +61 7 3253 3690
Email

Biography

Gary Morgan is Director Business and International, Digital Productivity at the CSIRO ICT Centre. The ICT Centre is the CSIRO’s hub for innovative information and communication technologies research applied across the breadth of CSIRO’s engagement with industry and society. In this role, Gary is responsible for Business Development in the Digital Productivity Portfolio themes including Health Services, Smart Infrastructure Services, Government and Commercial Services, and Advanced Broadband Networks & Services. Gary is also responsible for the International engagement strategy of the ICT Centre.

In his most recent role, Gary was Deputy Director of the CSIRO ICT Centre where he was responsible for the $64 million dollar per annum operations including health safety and environment, marketing and communications, legal, finance and human resources. Prior to this, Gary was the founding CEO of the Australian e-Health Research Centre. Established in 2003 as a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, Gary grew the Centre from its inception through to the year 2009 where with more than 60 research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, software engineers and PhD students, the Australian e-Health Research Centre was internationally recognised as a leading National research facility in ICT for healthcare innovations.

Gary Morgan is a senior technology executive with deep experience driving innovation and growth globally. He has held senior executive, change management, technology research and product development, business development and project management roles in public and private sectors. Gary is an Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the Centre on Fictitious Economy and Data Science. Gary also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment at the Queensland University of Technology with the Faculty of Sciences and Technology. He is a Board Member of the Australian e-Health Research Centre, the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation and he currently serves as a member of the Cancer Australia National Data Strategy Advisory Group. A member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Gary has completed the Senior Executive Program at the University of Melbourne. Gary has a MBA and Graduate Diploma from Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Griffith University.

Academic Qualifications

2008 Senior Executive Program, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
2008 Leading the Research Enterprise Program, CSIRO in conjunction with the Australian Graduate School of Management
1999 Master of Business Administration (International), Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology
1990 Graduate Diploma in Commercial Computing, Queensland University of Technology
1988 Bachelor of Commerce Degree, Griffith University

Recent Professional Experience

2011-Present Director Business and International, Digital Productivity, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane, Australia
2008-2011 Deputy Director, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane, Australia
2011-Present Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Centre on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Beijing, China
2010-Present Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Brisbane, Australia
2004-2009 Chief Executive, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia
2007-2010 Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Conjoint)
2001–2003 President & Chief Executive Officer, Wedgetail Communications Incorporated, San Francisco, USA
2000–2003 Chief Executive Officer and Director, Wedgetail Communications Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia
1996–1999 Queensland State Manager, Tandem Computer, Compaq Computer (Hewlett Packard), Brisbane, Australia

Achievements & Awards

2011 Teamwork Award, CSIRO
2010 Research Achievement Award, CSIRO
2009 Innovation Award, CSIRO
2005 Leadership Award, CSIRO
2004 Go For Growth Award, CSIRO
2002 Rising Star Award, Deloitte Technology 50
2002 Outstanding Alumni Award, Queensland University of Technology

Grants

2009 Science and Industry Endowment Fund, Rural Wireless Broadband Network
2009 Cancer Australia, Prostate Cancer Centre
2008 Smart State Queensland Innovation Projects, Australia Vancouver Prostate Alliance
2008 Australia-Harvard Fellowship, Dr S. Warfield
2007 Smart State Queensland Innovation Projects, MedTeQ Biomedical Imaging Project
2007 Institute for ICT Innovation Queensland, National Emergency Department Patient Admissions Prediction Tool
2007 Science Technology and Innovation Infrastructure Grants Program Victoria, Australian Cancer Grid : Merging of Colorectal Cancer Surveillance Databases From Tertiary Institutions Across States
2007 Cancer Institute NSW Health Services Research Grants Program, Centralised Remote Access Cancer Care Co-ordination (CRACCC)
2006 European Union's 6th Framework Programme, AMIDA (Augmented Multi-party Interaction with Distant Access)
2006 Smart State Queensland Innovation Projects, Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics
2005 Institute for ICT Innovation Queensland, Image-Quality-Sensitive Watermarking Of Medical Images
2004 ARACY/ARC Future Generation Network
2004 Institute for ICT Innovation Queensland, Joint ICT Infrastructure For EHRC and NICTA-Q

Science Citizenship

2009-Present Board Member, Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation
2008-2009 Board Member, Health Informatics Society of Australia, Ltd
2007-Present Member, Cancer Australia National Data Strategy Advisory Group
2008 Member, Standards Australia IT-014 Health Informatics Committee
2005-2006 Member, Standards Australia IT-014 Health Informatics Committee
2004-Present Board Member, Australian e-Health Research Centre
2000-2003 Board Member, Wedgetail Communications Pty Ltd

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
D. P. Hansen, P. Gurney, G. Morgan and B. Barraclough. The Australian e-Health Research Centre: enabling the health care information and communication technology revolution. Med J Aust 2011; 194 (4): S5-S7
G. Morgan, D. P. Hansen and B. Barraclough. Healthcomes and the Patient Experience: Improving the Quality and Safety of Healthcare through Information Technology. In The Commonwealth Health Ministers Book, May 2008
D. Hansen, M. Karunanithi, M. Lawley, A. Maeder, S. McBride, G. Morgan, C. Pang, O. Salvado and A. Sarela. Improving the use, analysis and integration of patient health data. International Workshop On Health Data Management. Shenyeng, China: 28 April 2008
G. Morgan and A. J. Maeder. Data Collection Methods Underpinning Healthcare Delivery Improvement [abstract]. Economic Strategy for Healthcare through Bio and Information Standards and Technologies, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA: September 2007
M. Karunanithi, G. Morgan and J. Boyle. Development of a Care Assessment Platform [abstract]. CAST/NIST A National Summit: Moving Toward Interoperability — Technologies for Accessible, Affordable Healthcare, 2006 Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA: 18-19 October 2006
A. J. Maeder, G. Morgan, M. Karunanithi and J. Boyle. An integrated information environment supporting community-based care. In Exploring and Debating Acute Care Provision: 2006 Biennial Health Conference, University of New South Wales, pages Session 3.3, 2006
D. P. Hansen, G. Morgan and A. J. Maeder. Linking health data while preserving privacy [abstract]. In NCRI Cancer Conference, 2-5 October 2005, Birmingham, Eng.
G. Morgan and L. S. Wilson. The e-Health Research Centre: a new Queensland-CSIRO initiative. In HIC 2004: Health Informatics Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 2004

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