Claire has been active in integrated care innovation, education and research since the early 90s, and more recently, extensively involved in health services research and reform. She has been a member of all 4 national Primary Health Care Strategy and Reform Reference Groups - guiding forces behind Australia’s National Health Reform Agreements. Her description of the ‘beacon’ practice model, piloted at Inala Primary Care, was adopted as both the clinical prototype for the Australian Association of Academic General Practitioner’s endorsed model for GP Superclinics, and the basis for UQ’s successful $ 10 million Superclinic tenders. Inala Primary Care won RACGP Qld ‘Practice of the Year’ in 2009.
Claire is a Non-Executive Director of the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia Ltd (HCF), Australia’s largest NFP private health insurer, and Chair of the HCF Research Foundation. She was a member of the PrimaryHealth Care 10 Year Plan 2022-32 Steering Committee, and has been both a past Chair and President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is a Provost of the RACGP Qld Faculty Council, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the Medical Journal of Australia. She is an active clinician in Brisbane south, and Member of Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care PaRIS Governance Committee.

Originally from Colombia, Fabian is a GP by training and the current Director of the Metro South VAD Support Unit. He was closely involved in the implementation of voluntary assisted dying in Queensland and Since the commencement of the scheme in January 2023, he has been providing clinical leadership in ensuring quality care and compassionate support for patients accessing VAD and their families.

Dr Kate Johnston is a General Practitioner and Medical Director of GP Partnerships and Engagement at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. She has 30 years-experience as a clinician working across primary care and the public health sector, in addition to educational, academic and management roles. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and undertook the Future Leaders program in 2021. She is Deputy Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate which represents clinicians from across the health system, providing strategic advice and leadership on system-wide issues affecting healthcare delivery within Queensland.

Dr. Margaret Kay is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners with clinical and research expertise in refugee health. She is Clinical Lead in Multicultural Health with the Brisbane South PHN, past Chair of the Refugee Health Network of Australia and Member of the RACGP Special Interest Group for Migrant, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health. She completed her PhD in Physician Health in 2013 and holds an academic title as Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine, UQ. In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia for significant service to medicine, to medical education, and to migrant health.

Dr Michaela Kelly is a general practitioner with clinical interests in aged care, perioperative medicine and prehabilitation. She is an associate professor in the General Practice Clinical Unit at The University of Queensland, academic coordinator for the Medicine in Society course and developed the Vulnerability in Medicine program. She is ‘Partner and Team Player’ theme lead and year 4 Design lead for the new MD. Michaela completed a Master of Clinical Education at the University of Melbourne and contributed to the development of the RACGP aged care clinical guide and standards for General Practice Aged Care.

Johanna Lynch is a sought after speaker nationally and internationally on generalism, whole person care, and the integration of trauma-informed practice into medical care. She has developed a Whole Person Systems Review to aid clinician pattern recognition and develop the Sense of Safety Theoretical Framework as a strengths based and healing oriented approach to distress of both practitioners and patients. She is an experienced general practitioner who draws on her frontline practice wisdom and doctoral research to champion generalist approaches to health. Her papers on the Craft of Generalism and Transdisciplinary Generalism offer new ways to see the complexity of general practice.
 
Johanna is a Clinical Advisor to her local PHN on the Recognise Respond Refer Domestic Violence Project. She is a Senior Lecturer at UQ School of Medicine where she teaches whole person care and helps students face their own vulnerability and humanity. She sits on a number of national committees – including the Intersectoral and Policy Committee for the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research

Dr Jane MacLeod is a GP in Ipswich, and a mother of 3.
She has special interests in mental health including complex trauma, sexual health, LGBTIQ + health and Indigenous health. Jane has just started in the role of GPwSI (GP with special interest) at RBWH Gender Service and Metro North Sexual Health and HIV service. She has worked in a number of settings including remote Aboriginal communities, urban Aboriginal medical services, sexual health and family planning, child, adolescent and adult mental health. Prior to working in Metro North, Jane worked in West Moreton as a GPwSI in Developmental Paediatrics, a local GP, a clinical editor for West Moreton HealthPathways, and as a medical educator for the RACGP.
Jane is passionate about emotional well-being and self-care for doctors, evidenced based medicine and health professional education.

Dr Nimath Malawaraarachchi is a new fellow of the RACGP and was an academic registrar in 2024, through Bond University. His research interest areas are antibiotic stewardship and clinical governance. He currently lives and works on the Gold Coast, and is keen to continue his relationship with the Gold Coast community.