Ms McGrath has more than 30 years' experience in healthcare with over 25 years of experience in chief executive roles and over 15 years of experience in pathology CEO roles. Melinda has led the organisation's restructure and transformation, building ACL's scale and operational performance improvement over the past seven years, overseeing the integration of Healthscope's Australian pathology business, St John of God Health Care's pathology business, Perth Pathology, SunDoctors and MedLab Pathology. She has also driven the establishment of one performance oriented culture across the organisation, via one unified integrated pathology system. Melinda was Chief Executive Officer of QML Pathology (part of Healius/ Primary Healthcare) from 2008 to 2015, where she developed five QML brands and established Tasmania Medical Laboratories. Prior to that, Melinda held transformative chief executive roles at private regional and tertiary referral hospitals in Queensland including The Sunshine Coast Private Hospital, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital and St Stephens Private Hospital. Melinda has held board member positions at Metro North Hospitals and Health Service including Royal Brisbane, Prince Charles, Redcliffe, Caboolture and related health services and a superannuation fund, UC Super.
