Breakfast Session 5: Practice Ownership - Leadership Insights
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| Sunday, May 24, 2026 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
Details
Seats limited | Registration essential to secure a place | Cost - no charge.
This panel discussion brings together a diverse group of practice owners to shine a light on what practice ownership really involves and the leadership capabilities that underpin success.
This session will explore the human side of practice leadership: people and culture, building trust, shaping team environments, and leading with clarity and values. Panel members will share first-hand experiences of stepping into ownership, including the challenges they faced, what they wish they had known earlier, and the leadership habits that helped them along the way.
The aim is to provide clearer insight into the real demands and rewards of ownership, a stronger sense of what effective leadership looks like in this context, and increased confidence that practice ownership is achievable with the right guidance and support.
This panel discussion brings together a diverse group of practice owners to shine a light on what practice ownership really involves and the leadership capabilities that underpin success.
This session will explore the human side of practice leadership: people and culture, building trust, shaping team environments, and leading with clarity and values. Panel members will share first-hand experiences of stepping into ownership, including the challenges they faced, what they wish they had known earlier, and the leadership habits that helped them along the way.
The aim is to provide clearer insight into the real demands and rewards of ownership, a stronger sense of what effective leadership looks like in this context, and increased confidence that practice ownership is achievable with the right guidance and support.
Speaker
Dr Aaron Haining
Leadership and Mentoring Programs Lead
RACGP
Chairperson
7:30 - 8:30Biography
Dr Eydis Konradsdottir
GP
Lindfield Family Medicine
Chairperson
7:30 - 8:30Biography
Dr Margaret Bryce
GP and Chair, RACGP Business of General Practice SIG
Bennelong Clinic
Practice Ownership: Leadership Insights
7:30 - 8:30Biography
Dr Joanne Chaffey
GP & Practice Owner
Patrick Street Clinic
Practice Ownership: Leadership Insights
7:30 - 8:30Biography
A/Prof Michael Clements
Chair, Rural
RACGP
Practice Ownership: Leadership Insights
7:30 - 8:30Biography
A/Prof Michael Clements is an experienced Townsville based General Practitioner and practice owner with a background in health leadership and clinical and corporate governance. A/Prof Clements has accrued a wide variety of skills and special interests in his time with the Royal Australian Air Force and then with QLD Health as Director of Medical Services at Ingham Hospital before opening his private practices in Townsville while concurrently working for the QLD Rural Generalist Training Pathway as an advisor. Having worked in rural, remote and overseas clinical environments during and after his fellowship training Michael now gets his ‘rural fix’ by flying himself and other clinicians to remote towns in the Gulf of Carpentaria delivering GP clinics. Clinical interests include veterans’ health, mental health, chronic disease and palliative care.
Dr Billy (Vasilios) Stoupas
GP & Practice Owner
Peninsula Family General Practice
Practice Ownership: Leadership Insights
7:30 - 8:30Biography
