National Support Centre

SmartClinics National Support Centre team is comprised of savvy entrepreneurs and industry experts which brings years of experience to a young company.  They cultivate our strong culture, and work tirelessly to help our Group continue to grow throughout South East Queensland, without compromising the high quality healthcare currently provided by all SmartClinics centres.

SmartClinics National Support Centre is located at Unit 2/423 Nudgee Road, Hendra.  If you would you like to speak to anyone from our management or support centre team, please call our general support centre line on (07) 3193 1300.

Steven Dahl - Managing Director

In 2011 Steven Dahl founded SmartClinics with a vision of making everyday healthcare easier by reducing wait times and improving convenience and accessibility.

Being the father of two sons and a daughter, Steven has experienced first hand how difficult it can be to not only make an appointment with a GP, but then how long you have to wait to get in an see them at the clinic. With his past experience in creating businesses that innovate in traditional industries Steven started SmartClinics with a fresh perspective. Using his business experience and leveraging technology to improve processes, SmartClinics has ambitious growth plans.

Steven loves working with the SmartClinics team to challenge the status quo in primary healthcare and to offer a valued service to patients.

Jo Whare – Clinic Operations Manager

Jo oversees the operations at a number of SmartClinics locations throughout Australia and has been in the medical industry for over 15 years. She is dedicated to meeting the needs of the doctors, staff and clinics she works with daily.

Jo has held senior management positions in the medical industry and related industries, and has enjoyed success shared with colleagues over her career. Jo consistently reaches and exceeded outcomes through the management of high-performance teams and individuals, as well as displaying a commitment to her own professional development and growth. Jo has enormous passion about working with teams to pursue quality service for clients.

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Sarita Fruk – Marketing Manager

Sarita has over 13 years marketing experience across a range of industries, including healthcare where she worked as a Senior Marketing Specialist for four years at Queensland Fertility Group.

Sarita has extensive experience in brand development and an eye for sales and marketing campaigns that deliver tangible results and contribute to the bottom line.

Tracey McNeil – Project Manager & Improvement Leader

Tracey joined SmartClinics National Support Centre in January, 2018 bringing with her 15 years of business and project management experience.
    Her past experience has seen her coordinate all moving parts to bring domestic and international business events together; planning key note speakers, welcome parties, business and team sessions, executive lunches, social events, gala dinners and fun team challenges; whilst also being the key contact for stakeholders and managing the budget allocated to the events.
    More recently; Tracey held a National Business Manager role; leading a Project Management Office and a team of project coordinators.  In that time; Tracey coordinated the delivery of projects within three major research programs, provided program level and divisional analysis, implemented the company-wide project management method, maintained a strong relationship with key stakeholders and managed an array of internal operational projects to budget, quality, time and customer service requirements.
    Tracey enjoys that her diverse role at SmartClinics.  She manages a number of our sub-contractors, plans events and coordinates our projects.  The favourite part of her role is working alongside the fabulous staff with the Medical Centres and implementing positive changes that brings efficiencies to the teams so in turn, they can focus on offering high quality service and healthcare to our valued patients.

Mariam Kalanzi – Acquisitions / Operations Lead

Mariam is from Uganda and has been with SmartClinics for over two years. She has completed a Bachelor of Business and a Masters of Human Resources Management at Griffith University with experience in the healthcare sector. Mariam assists in the smooth transition of acquired clinics (Pre/post acquisition support) and overall day to day HR/Operations of SmartClinics’ centres.

Marsha Daskalakis – Payroll Manager

Marsha has recently joined the SmartClinics team as the Payroll Manager.   Having to work with numerous awards and penalties, she is also very aware of the complexities that working within the health industry brings and is always happy to assist our team members with questions which relate to their pay.

Lisa O'Connor – Assistant Accountant

Lisa joins the SmartClinics team after previously working in both Australia and New Zealand as a bookkeeper.  She assists the finance team daily in areas such as ledgers, debtors and doctor pays.