AProf Chris Hogan has an unusually broad General Practice involvement & experience from the practical, initially as the equivalent of a rural generalist to a representative to theoretical & academic. He is a long-term advocate for General Practice. He has often found himself well outside his comfort zone due to circumstances other than his volunteering, not just in emergency & disaster medicine but in routine practice. He was awarded an OAM for services to Medicine this year.

Dr Lorraine Anderson is the Medical Director at Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services, based in Broome, Western Australia. Lorraine is proudly linked through her father to the Palawa people of Tasmania. She gained her primary degree in Medicine at The University of Auckland in New Zealand, followed by post graduate qualifications in Child Health, Palliative Medicine and General Practice. Lorraine is a Fellow of both the Royal New Zealand and the Royal Australian College’s of General Practice. She has been working in Aboriginal health and remote rural practice in the Pilbara, Indian Ocean Territories and now the Kimberley for the past 14 years. Lorraine has a passion for Aboriginal Health, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector model of care and loves to see true partnerships in Aboriginal research with robust and sustainable translation.

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. He 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. Michael is an Honorary Associate Professor with James Cook University and his clinical interests include veterans’ health, mental health, chronic disease and palliative care.

For over 30 years Joachim is practicing family medicine at Wamberal Surgery, Wamberal – Australia. He is the Foundation President of the International Society for Systems and Complexity Sciences for Health (ISSCSH), and he remains actively involved in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners as well as co-leading the special interest groups in complexity in WONCA, ESPCH and NAPCRG. His research interests relate to the application of systems and complexity principles to the philosophy of medicine and the healthcare system, as well as its application to health care delivery, health policy and health systems organisation.