About Mya
Growing agency and outcomes for our workforce, our patients and our communities.
Dr Mya Cubitt is a senior emergency physician, academic, and national health system leader with expertise in acute care, clinical governance, and safety across hospital, home, and community settings.
She is National Medical Director at Silverchain, where she leads clinical governance, safety, and risk oversight across a national home and community care platform undergoing significant digital and service transformation. She remains clinically active as an Emergency Physician at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and holds an academic appointment as Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Critical Care at The University of Melbourne, grounding her system leadership in contemporary clinical practice and academic contribution.
Dr Cubitt trained in Emergency Medicine in New Zealand and Australia following her medical degree at the University of Otago and was awarded the Buchanan Prize for achieving the highest score in the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine fellowship examination. Her clinical and leadership experience spans emergency medicine, Hospital in the Home, patient flow, and acute care redesign, with a particular focus on improving outcomes for older people with complex needs.
Her governance and policy leadership includes chair-level roles within hospitals and professional colleges, and senior advisory work across state and federal health systems.
She holds an Executive MBA from Melbourne Business School, complementing her clinical and academic leadership with advanced capability in governance, strategy, and large-scale system reform.