Victorian Advisory Board

The National Heart Foundation of Australia values the commitment of the Victorian Advisory Board, which forms an essential component of our national arrangements, allowing the Heart foundation to connect strategy, local community engagement and external stakeholder expertise.

Associate Professor Dion Stub - Chair

Dion Stub is an Interventional Cardiologist and clinician scientist specializing in coronary and structural heart intervention. He is Co-director of Centre Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics Monash University, with leadership positions on major pre-hospital and hospital cardiac registries in Victoria. Dion has published over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and delivered multiple presentations in both cardiac emergencies and structural heart intervention and has been internationally recognized for his research. He currently holds the National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship to support his clinical research. Dion spent 2 years overseas in USA and Canada, as a post doctorate fellow. He is a staff specialist at Alfred Hospital, & Western Health, and is cardiology medical advisor to Ambulance Victoria.

Erin Bowen

Erin is an experienced senior policy specialist in health, social policy and public administration, with over twenty years working at executive levels across both Commonwealth and state governments and over five years as a public policy consultant. She has provided leadership on whole of health system strategic policy development and integration, health program formulation and implementation, human resources management and people capability development.  

Erin has had extensive involvement in stakeholder engagement and consultation, leading diverse teams and strengthening organisational capabilities. She has been integral in delivering several projects for government and non-government organisations, including national strategies and plans, significant Commonwealth/state joint projects, major health reform initiatives, operational and health system analysis and service re-design.  

Her career experience includes a range of corporate, strategic and organisational leadership and management roles, at Commonwealth and state government levels in Canberra, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. As a consultant based in Victoria, she has worked in partnership with Commonwealth and state governments, non-government organisations, medical colleges, universities and think tanks.  

Melissa Grenville

Melissa is a highly experienced consultant who specialises in connecting the not-for-profit sector with the corporate community to create sustainable revenue streams.

Her key areas of competence include business development, corporate social responsibility, fundraising strategy, and income diversification. She is a skilled internal and external stakeholder manager who can adapt to dynamic and under-resourced environments to maximise outcomes. She enjoys the challenge of problem solving to provide solutions, through research, planning and strategy development, brand synergy, sourcing partnerships and developing practical initiatives that maximise business and not for profits needs.

Melissa has a Bachelor of Arts (Community Development) and is currently studying her Masters in Social Impact.

Professor Brian Oldenburg

Formerly at the University of Melbourne, Brian Oldenburg is a Professor of Public Health and Implementation Science at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He is also the Director of the Academic Research Collaboration in Health at Alfred Hospital as well as a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Technology to Transform Australia’s Chronic Disease Outcomes (called CONNECTED HEALTH).

For more than 30 years, he has been researching how to change lifestyle behaviours and to improve heart disease and diabetes outcomes. He has pioneered many technology platforms and digital health solutions to improve chronic disease outcomes.

Belinda Hillard

Belinda is a seasoned senior change manager with extensive experience delivering change in her work at KPMG, ANZ, and within the not-for-profit sector. Her expertise encompasses stakeholder engagement, communications, strategic thinking, and change delivery.

Belinda served as a board director for the Timor Leste Hearts Fund for five years and was also a member of the Governance Committee for Safer Care Victoria's Cardiac Clinical Network. She values bringing a non-clinical perspective to discussions and decision-making processes.

Passionate about enhancing the patient experience, Belinda has a particular interest in supporting younger cardiac patients as they navigate their heart health alongside work, study, relationships, children and life in general.