Our Team

At the Collaborative Centre, our teams are responsible for delivering work that strengthens Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system.

We bring together people with Lived and Living Experience, clinical and community practice backgrounds, research capability, workforce expertise, operations and public service experience. This mix of perspectives shapes how we design our work, how we collaborate with the sector, and how we support system-wide learning and improvement.

Meet the Collaborative Centre team

Our leadership team

Professor Sarah Wilson, CEO, PhD, FAMHS, FASSA, GAICD (she/her)

Sarah is the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing and an internationally recognised clinical neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. Her work in music neuroscience has shown how music can shape brain function, recovery and wellbeing. She is passionate about translating research into practice and bringing lived, clinical and research expertise together to create a mental health system that truly works for people.

Professor Sarah Wilson (she/her) - Chief Executive Officer

Bradley Medcroft - Chief Operating Officer

Emma Cadogan - Director, Workforce Development

Workforce Teams

We work directly with the mental health workforce to connect diverse expertise. Drawing on a foundation of Lived and Living Experience we connect clinical wisdom and emerging research to drive practice change and build workforce capability across Victoria.

Andrew O’Sullivan

Manager, Sector Capability

Molly Galea

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator

Laura Cunningham

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator

Kerrie Clarke

Statewide Principal Psychology Educator

Michelle Pham

Statewide Psychology Educator

Emma Murrell

Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator

Oliver McDougall-Fisher

Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator

Moisis Moisis

Statewide Mental Health Social Work Educator

Phoebe Williamson

Statewide Occupational Therapy Educator

Leanna Azoury

Manager, Sector Capability (Lived Experience)

Karen McKnight

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator (Lived Experience)

Erin Hill

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator (Lived Experience)

Leanne Burn

Lived and Living Experience Sector Partnerships Manager

Melissa Mendoza

Lived and Living Experience Sector Partnerships Officer

Dr Jacqui Sundbery

Senior Lived Experience Sector Partnerships Officer (family/carer/supporter)

Governance, research, planning and operations

We are building a sustainable and influential organisation that leads by example.

Our Lived Experience leadership and workforce are central to how we deliver on our regulatory and strategic commitments. We are proud to support the Collaborative Centre's: research strategy, sector communications, system engagement, strategic governance and operational design.