Sharon Flynn

Director since 2024

Across Sharon’s career she has undertaken a range of leadership and chair roles with organisations in the rural and regional health sector. Her career both in the Air Force and then health-related not for profits has allowed her to live and work in rural and regional centres, now being semi-retired in Tamworth.

She has chosen to spend the last seven years of her not-for-profit C-suite career in an organisation committed to the highest quality of patient care for cancer patients and those exposed to medical doses of radiation (diagnosis and treatment).

Sharon has extensive governance experience in the not-for-profit space. She has been the CEO of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) and a member of the Radiation Oncology Alliance (ROA) and in these roles she has passionately advocated for and worked with other national and state-based organisations to bring as many qualified doctors as possible to the bush.

With both a business and management accounting background she has been involved in grass roots community organisations and a valued strategic member of the Board of the RAAF Welfare Trust Fund, the Board of the Uniting Church in NSW and on the Board of Wesley College at Sydney University. Sharon has an affinity with Can Assist’s vision, because of her lived experience as the spouse of a cancer survivor in a family that has lost too many people to cancer.