Associate Professor Pieter Van Dam completed his PhD in Leadership Development in 2015. During the last ten years Dr Van Dam’s career has been focussed on the field of health service improvement and leadership development.
Dr Van Dam has an extensive clinical and educational background in Nursing and healthcare and has worked as a Senior Clinician and in the acute healthcare sector. Dr Van Dam works closely with interstate healthcare improvement organisations on a number of national health service improvement and codesign initiatives addressing numerous constraints and issues inherent in health service delivery across primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, such as protracted wait times, care coordination and integration, access and referral across services, and timely treatment and discharge. Dr Van Dam conducts research in the field of health service improvement, leadership, and co-design.
Currently, Dr Van Dam works for the School of Nursing at the University of Tasmania.