Dr Mandy Callary

Mandy is a geriatrician from South Australia. She graduated in medicine from Flinders University in 1987 and achieved Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, specialising in Geriatric Medicine in 2001.

Mandy considers herself to be primarily a clinician – with her clinical subspeciality areas in cognitive disorders, delirium, frailty, and clinical governance. As a geriatrician, she has provided medical assessment and care to older people wherever they be, including in their homes, in residential aged care facilities, and in the hospital and wider healthcare systems.

Mandy also values her 20-year experience as an aged care board member, as it has provided her considerable insights into how the aged care sector operates, how it conducts itself, and how, in her new role as Chief Clinical Advisor, she could best support the sector to improve the health, wellbeing, and quality of life of older people receiving aged care services.