Allied Health Excellence Awards
The awards recognise the contributions of allied health professionals, assistants and teams to our community.
2024 award winners
Allied Health Assistant Excellence
For allied health assistants, dental assistants or peer recovery workers.
- Joshua O’Dwyer (Canberra Health Services)
Early Career Excellence
For people who started as a new graduate on or after 1 January 2022.
- Brigette Berry (Canberra Health Services)
Practice Excellence
For people who work in clinical, community, technical, and scientific fields.
- Donna Bainbridge (Fisher Family Practice)
Management and Leadership Excellence
For allied health leaders at all levels.
- Tim Tooke (Canberra Health Services)
Education Excellence
For people improving skills and knowledge in allied health learning.
- Sandra Holdom (Canberra Health Services)
Team Excellence
For teams who work together for a common goal.
- Black Mountain School Student Engagement Team (Education Directorate)
Research Excellence
For people or teams achieving excellence in research or quality improvement.
- Tanya Buettikofer (Canberra Health Services)
Excellence in Provision of Services to Improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
For people or teams improving Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander health services.
- Community Care Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Inclusion Plan Implementation Team (Canberra Health Services)
Consumer Recognition
For patients, health consumers or families to nominate allied health professionals, assistants, or teams.
- Matthew Hotchkis (Podiatry Professionals and Canberra Heel Pain Institute)
- Rebecca McRae (Reboot Physiotherapy)
2024 Allied Health Professionals of the Year
This is the all-around winner.
- Community Care Program Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Inclusion Plan Implementation Team (Canberra Health Services)
What award winners get
We celebrate nominees and award winners on International Allied Health Professions Day.
Award winners receive $500 for learning.
The allied health professional of the year receives an extra $1500 for learning. We ask them to reflect at the next year's Allied Health Awards ceremony.
We ask winners or nominees to share their stories, we might use these in media or communication.
Contact us
Email chiefalliedhealthoffice@act.gov.au or call 02 5124 9734 for more information.