I am emergency physician who after being DEMT for 5 years, took a different pathway to the darkside of administration. After participating in a hospital redesign I became the Director of Access and Flow for Gold Coast Hospital (3 years), in charge of bed management, nursing pool and performance. The next phase of my journey involved first joining a ministerial taskforce to improve performance and then seconded to the department of head as a clinical lead of the Health Improvement Unit for 9 years, in which I had a number of roles including clinical lead of QPACH.