Chief medical adviser to the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) Meredith Makeham will leave the agency at the end of the month to take up a position as associate dean of community and primary healthcare at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Professor Makeham has been with the agency since November 2016 and was previously a patient safety adviser to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. A practicing GP, she was also a member of the expert committee for eHealth and practice systems with the RACGP.