Dr Shaddy Hanna is an Academic General Practice (GP) Registrar in his final year of GP training. He completed medical school at the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine in 2020. During his studies, he was involved in research alongside a wonderful team of Academic GPs which established his interest in academia.
 
After finishing his internship and residency in the Northern Sydney Local Health District, Shaddy entered GP training. He was accepted into an Academic Post during his first year of training and has recently commenced this position at the University of Sydney General Practice Clinical School where he is involved in medical education and research. His current research interests are cardiovascular disease prevention, primary care, and digital health.
 
Outside of work, he loves going to the beach, being with family, and tinkering with his coffee machines or bike!

Dr Amandeep Hansra is a GP with over 18 years of clinical experience and one of Australia's leading digital health and innovation experts. She is currently the Australian Digital Health Agency's Chief Clinical Adviser. Amandeep is also a deputy chair of the RACGP's Specific Interests Digital Health and Innovation, and also sits on the board and council of AMA NSW.

She founded Creative Careers in Medicine, an organisation, with over 25,000 members, that advocates for professional freedom to explore creative career paths in medicine. Amandeep also co-founded Australian Medical Angels, an investment syndicate with over 25 healthtech investments. Amandeep serves as a director on the boards of various national and international organisations, including ACHSI, Molemap, Healthengine and Healthicare. She is a Fellow of the RACGP and Australian Institute of Digital Health and is former CEO and Medical Director of Telstra's telehealth service.

She has a Bachelor of Medicine (honours) from the University of Newcastle, a Global Executive MBA from the University of Sydney, a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University, the Australia Certificate in Civil Aviation Medicine, is a Certified Health Informatician of Australia and has completed the Company Directors Course through the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health at the University of Sydney.

Dr Amandeep Hansra is a GP with over 18 years of clinical experience and one of Australia's leading digital health and innovation experts. She is currently the Australian Digital Health Agency's Chief Clinical Adviser. Amandeep is also a co-deputy chair of the RACGP's Special Interest Group in Digital Health and also sits on the board and council of AMA NSW.
She founded Creative Careers in Medicine, an organisation, with over 25,000 members, that advocates for professional freedom to explore creative career paths in medicine. Amandeep also co-founded Australian Medical Angels, an investment syndicate with over 25 healthtech investments. Amandeep serves as a director on the boards of various national and international organisations, including ACHSI, Molemap, Healthengine and Healthicare. She is a Fellow of the RACGP and Australian Institute of Digital Health and is former CEO and Medical Director of Telstra's telehealth service.
She has a Bachelor of Medicine (honours) from the University of Newcastle, a Global Executive MBA from the University of Sydney, a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University, the Australia Certificate in Civil Aviation Medicine, is a Certified Health Informatician of Australia and has completed the Company Directors Course through the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health at the University of Sydney.

Simon Hay is a Scottish trained GP who has practiced in rural, outer metropolitan and metropolitan areas of South Australia. He has worked in GP Training in South Australia for over ten years and is now the SA Regional Director of Training for the RACGP where he heads up an amazing team of medical educators.

Richard Hobbs is the Mercian Professor of Primary Care, Head of Oxford Primary Care, and Director of the Oxford Institute of Digital Health, all at the University of Oxford. He is also a Pro-Vice-Chancellor (WP) at Oxford, and served on the University Council, its governing body, for 11 years and was a University Trustee (2012-24). He is also a director and current chair of PROXEMIS, a joint venture between the University of Oxford and EMIS, and a director of OUPD, a university joint venture with Legal and General.

He has made major contributions to growing primary care academic capacity, in terms of people development and research networks. A highly cited primary care clinician scientist, he has authored over 600 peer reviewed publications, has an h-index of 119, with >134,000 citations (136 papers with >100 citations, 20 papers >1000, and 15 papers >2000). Outstanding track record in cardiovascular disease research, delivering trials that changed international guidelines and practice, especially in the areas of heart failure burden and diagnosis (ECHOES and REFER trials), chronic kidney disease (BARACK-D RCT, OxREN), stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (BAFTA, SAFE, and SMART trials), and hypertension self-management (TASMINH 1-5). He also leads a new Institute of Applied Digital Science at Oxford, with 8 globally impactful PIs and their multi-disciplinary teams covering real-time disease surveillance, cohort linkage studies, validated risk scores and clinical decision rules, pharmaco-epidemiology, digitally-enabled patient self-management, practice performance dashboards and prescribing e-interventions, and a novel pragmatic digital trial platform (ORCHID). At the onset of COVID-19 he re-tasked much of his research to urgent COVID studies and is PI or co-PI of all the main UK National Urgent Public Health Priority Studies in primary care, including the national repurposed therapies platform trial (PRINCIPLE), national COVID & Flu Surveillance for HSE (ORCHID), the national PC diagnostics platform trial (RAPTOR/CONDOR), and the national COVID novel anti-viral platform trial ({PANORAMIC).

Richard has served on many national and international scientific and research funding boards in UK, Ireland, Canada, and WHO, including the BHF Council, British Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, and the ESC Council for Cardiovascular Primary Care. He currently chairs the European and International Primary Care Cardiovascular Societies, a WONCA Special Interest Group. He was the National Director, NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2008-2021) and National Director, NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Review Panel (2005-09).

He was the fifth recipient of the RCGP Discovery Prize in 2018 (occasional awards since 1953), received an inaugural Distinguished Researcher Shine Prize and Best Oral Presentation Prize at WONCA World Congress in 2018, and was awarded a CBE for services to medical research in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List.

Dr Owen Hutchings, Clinical Director and Research Lead, RPA Virtual Hospital is a Hospital Generalist and Fellow of the Australian College of General Practitioners. Owen has extensive experience consulting patients in hospital based Urgent Care and acute General Practice environments including Hospital in The Home to provide hospital type care to people in the community. He has proven success in clinical leadership and establishing innovative models which integrate care between inpatient hospital and outpatient community settings in collaboration with Primary Care. This includes the use of Digital and Virtual Health. RPA Virtual Hospital as the first Virtual Hospital in Australia performed a pivotal lead role in the response to COVID-19.

Gerard is a rural GP and GP supervisor of over 30 years experience in Daylesford Victoria. In 2024 he moved to work in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation in Katherine NT. He is a medical educator and academic and the RACGP National Clinical Lead ‑ Supervisor and Practice Support & Education

Dr Adareeka Jayasinghe is a GP in Brisbane. She has been a medical educator in Queensland for 10 years. Currently, she is a medical educator for the RACGP's Clinical Competency Exam and is involved in case development. She is also a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland.