Dr Helena Williams is the Silverchain Executive Medical Director East Coast, based in Adelaide. Her portfolio covers the care continuum across aged care, health and NDIS services.

As a registered specialist general practitioner with 35 years of experience in general practice, she remains incredibly passionate about the privileged and important role of the GP.

Helena is also a Director and Deputy Chair of the Board of the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, where she also chairs the Clinical Governance Committee. She is a Director on the Board of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and also chairs the national Primary Care Committee.

Past directorships include the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Southern Adelaide Health Service, Cancer Council South Australia, Noarlunga Health Services, South Australian Divisions of General Practice, and the Australian General Practice Network.

A GP and Addiction Medicine Specialist, Dr Hester Wilson, is the chair of the RACGP Addiction Special Interest Group. She is the Chief Addiction Specialist for NSW, the Clinical Director for Murrumbidgee Drug and Alcohol Service for Murrumbidgee Local Health District, and a GP in private practice. She has long championed the issues GPs face when providing care to people experiencing AOD harm. She is keen to support access to care for people with complex needs and multimorbidity, as well as person-centred care and quality prescribing. She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD focused on GPs’ experience of patients with chronic pain and prescription opioid use disorder.

Bree Wright is a Senior Medical Educator with the WA RACGP team, managing her own cohort of registrars whilst providing support in the Remediation space. She has worked in medical education for eight years across the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, WAGPET and RACGP, and continues to practice clinically as a GP in Spearwood, where she also supervises registrars. Previously a WAGPT registrar herself, Bree also held a Registrar Liaison Officer role and was the WA advisor for GPRA’s Future GP Network program.

Dr Michael Wright is a general practitioner (GP), health economist and health services researcher based in Sydney, Australia. Michael combines clinical practice with strategic appointments and academic research analysing the effects of health policy on the quality and performance of primary care. Michael is the President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and Associate Professor at the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales. Michael’s previous appointments include Chief Medical Officer of Avant Mutual, chair of RACGP’s Reference Expert Committee on Funding and Health System Reform, and Board Chair of Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network. Michael completed GP registrar training in Queensland and previously worked in London as a GP, where he completed his Masters in Public Health and was also a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Michael completed his PhD in health economics at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2019. His PhD investigated the impact of continuity of general practice care on health outcomes, and his research interests including growing the evidence base about the value of high quality primary care, and health policy research into quality, efficiency and sustainability of health services.

Dr Hannah Wu is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Adelaide Medical School, where she currently co-coordinates the Year 6 Transition To Internship Program. She completed her MBBS at the University of Adelaide in 2015 and Master of Clinical Education at Flinders University in 2017. Hannah is currently undertaking a PhD, evaluating traditional and artificial intelligence-enhanced methods of assessment in medical education. Her current research work explores the utility of case based discussions as a workplace based assessment of novice learners in a general practice setting. This forms the basis of her extended skills (academic post) in her RACGP Fellowship training. Hannah is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators.

Dr Rosemary Wyber is a non-Indigenous General Practitioner and researcher focusing on primary care. She leads the Enhancing Chronic Disease Care Team within Yardhura Walani at Australian National University and is also a Senior Research Fellow at Telethon Kids Institute. Dr Wyber is funded through an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship (2024 – 2029) and an Honorary Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2024- 2026). She works clinically in refugee health.

Dr Amber Zi Ye obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of New South Wales in 2020. She subsequently completed her internship and residency at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Dr Ye is a recipient of the 2024 RACGP Academic Post and is currently undertaking her Academic Post with UNSW as a GP registrar. Her research focuses on investigating cancer screening participation patterns by utilising linked health datasets including The 45 and Up Study, MBS, and NSW Cancer Registry. She firmly believes that research is instrumental in advancing the field of general practice and improving patient care.