Keynote Plenary 3: Healthcare systems – a global perspective
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| Sunday, May 24, 2026 |
| 9:15 - 10:00 |
| Pyrmont Theatre |
Speaker
Dr Rebekah Hoffman
Board Deputy Chair and Chair, NSW&ACT
RACGP
Chairperson
9:15 - 10:00
Dr Rebekah Hoffman is a specialist GP and a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practice. She enjoys studying and the diversity of being a GP, having completed a broad range of additional qualifications across Women’s and Children’s Health, Sport Medicine, Surgery and Business Governance. Further to this, she also enjoys teaching, being a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong in Medical Education, and regularly mentoring students studying medicine from a number of Universities in NSW.
Dr Michael Bonning
Director | Chair of Public Health, AMA
AMA (NSW)
Healthcare systems – a global perspective
9:15 - 10:00
Michael is a GP and practice medical director in the inner west of Sydney. He has worked overseas in the USA and UK. He was president of the AMA (NSW) and is currently the deputy Chair of the RACGP's Funding and Health systems Expert Committee. Across his career he has had the privilege of seeing the role and innovations in primary care in many countries in Asia, Europe and North America. He served as a medical officer in the Royal Australian Navy and was previously a director of beyondblue.
Dr Luke Bradford
President
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
Healthcare systems – a global perspective
9:15 - 10:00
Dr Luke Bradford is the President of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and a Tauranga-based GP working at 5th Avenue Family Practice. He became a partner at the practice in 2013. Luke advocates for College members and the wider primary care workforce at a sector and national level and is a regular commentator across the media.
He was the College’s medical director from April 2023 – July 2025.
He trained in Southampton in the UK and moved to New Zealand in 2008. Initially working in emergency medicine, Dr Bradford left the hospital system and travelled via urgent care to Hauora medicine, a Māori philosophy of health, where he worked at Ngati Kahu Hauora in Tauranga and was the GP for Matakana Island.
A desire to help shape service delivery for patients and work with partners to better inform them of the value and excellence of general practice led Dr Bradford into governance roles and representative groups. In 2016, he became Chair of Western Bay of Plenty PHO for five years, and he chaired the Primary Health Alliance.
In 2021 Dr Bradford became one of the Chief Medical Officers at BoP DHB and looked after the surgical services, child, women and family teams and primary care work as well as being clinical lead for COVID-19.
Dr Milesh Gohil
GP
Noosa Health Centre Mt Coolum
Healthcare systems – a global perspective
9:15 - 10:00
Dr Milesh Gohil is a RACGP Fellow, Practice owner, principal GP, and medical educator.
Graduating in the United Kingdom, he combined an extensive NHS career with a decade of experience as a business director prior to relocating to Australia, bringing strong expertise in governance, organisational leadership and financial stewardship, alongside a commitment to the advancement of early-career GPs.
Hans Erik Henriksen
Vice President
QUMEA
Healthcare systems – a global perspective
9:15 - 10:00
Hans Erik Henriksen is Vice President for QUMEA in Denmark. QUMEA provides digital mobility monitoring to improve patient safety and support carers in their work, reducing stress and improving working environments.
Before joining QUMEA, Hans Erik Henriksen was CEO of Epital Health (treatment of chronic
patients in their own home) and before Epital Health, CEO of Healthcare DENMARK. Healthcare DENMARK is a public-private partnership organization, with a national mandate to promote Danish healthcare solutions and competencies abroad.
He has a solid healthcare and Healthtech background from different executive positions during the latest 30 years including:
• CEO of CompuGroup Denmark, a company delivering GP EMR systems to 50% of the
Danish market.
• CEO of startup Cetrea, a company specialized in patient-flow and coordination solutions to hospitals.
• Chairman of the Board, Avaleo – a company delivering Municipality EMR solutions.
• Responsible for IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences in the Northern and Eastern part of
Europe.