A Paediatric Emergency & Retrieval Physician by training, Mardi has lived and worked in the US, Kenya & Australia as a clinician, educator, clinical director, executive and non-executive director. She is passionate about strategic development of accessible, cost-effective, high quality primary, prehospital, emergency & hospital care, especially for remote & underserved populations.
Building strength in health leadership is one of her core drivers. After working as a specialist doctor in Australia for 5 years, she moved with her family to Kenya from 2011-2019. There she served in several roles, including two terms as Kijabe Hospital’s Director of Clinical Services, and as co-developer of sub-Saharan Africa’s first postgraduate Fellowship program in Paediatric Emergency & Critical Care with the University of Nairobi and University of Washington.
Since obtaining an MBA from Melbourne Business School in 2018, her focus has been improving the health of rural & remote Australians through her executive role at the Royal Flying Doctor Service SA/NT, where she leads innovative evidence-based solutions to both emergency and comprehensive primary health care for remote communities across SA/NT.
She is committed to disseminating best practice via academic research, publication and collaboration, and has faculty appointments at University of Florida and Charles Darwin University where she assisted in the development and launch of the postgraduate Aeromedical Retrieval Graduate Diploma and Masters programs in 2021.
In her free time she can be found creating imaginary worlds in the writer’s room and on set as a television drama medical advisor, as well as thinking out loud through articles on LinkedIn and advocating for equitable healthcare on X at @PECCAfrica.
