Presently a GP in rural area , Dr Becker has had extensive experience in the US working with insurance companies to improve the quality of care and reduce the cost of care Dr Becker has written to manuals on hospital care and the avoidable bed stay and Australia health Care Reform

As MIGA’s Senior Solicitor – Advocacy, Claims & Education, Timothy focuses on MIGA’s industry advocacy, engaging with governments, regulators, colleges and other associations on medico-legal, insurance and other health industry issues. Timothy is responsible for MIGA's advocacy in the medical regulatory and disciplinary field, including recent Federal and Queensland Parliamentary inquiries, Health Practitioner Regulation National Law reviews, the Medical Board of Australia's revalidation discussion and proposals, and ongoing regulator interactions. He has published on the issue of revalidation for the medical profession and organised professional dialogue around this important issue. For many years, Timothy specialised in acting for medical and other health practitioners, and health care institutions in malpractice, disciplinary and coronial matters. Tim is an editorial board member of the Australian Health Law Bulletin, a member of both the NSW Law Society medico-legal liaison committee and NSW Coroner's medico-legal users' group, and a casual academic in medical law at Western Sydney University.

Dr Theodore Chamberlain is an overseas born Australian trained rural practitioner of over thirty years standing. Dr Chamberlain currently works as a Senior Medical Superintendent at the Maleny Soldiers Memorial Hospital which is a rural hospital servicing the township of Maleny in the hinterlands of the sunshine coast north of Brisbane in Queensland. Dr Chamberlain completed his medical education at the University of Queensland and has practiced continually in rural medicine since then including over thirteen years with Dr Col Owen in Inglewood. He is a Fellow of ACRRM and has contributed to the rural health movement through involvement with ACRRM and RDAQ. He has had a long interest in telehealth having presented at the first National Rural Health Conference at Toowoomba on this subject in the late eighties. Currently he is interested in expanding the role of rural hospitals to fill the needs of their communities and to this end has integrated a rehabilitation unit,palliative care unit and a movement disorders clinic specialising in end stage Parkinsonism into a rural hospital to reverse the flow from tertiary centres and to provide a service the community.

Manabu Saito graduated from medical school at Juntendo University, Tokyo in 2000 and is a Board-certified specialists in both emergency medicine and primary care medicine. Since 2015 he has started to develop a new program for rural medicine training, called ’Rural Generalist Program Japan’, which is allied to the Rural training Program in Australia. He estimates that the program will make it effective to recruit and retain rural doctors for an increasing rural and ageing society area in Japan.

Kenjiro Setoue may be the most famous doctor in Japan, although few people actually know his name or would recognize a photograph of him. A manga cartoon, originally in Japanese and also translated into French, and an extremely popular television program were both made about him but under the pseudonym “Dr. Koto.” Dr. Setoue (pronounced “Seh-to-way”) was a successful surgeon in a large urban hospital who had tired of the long hours and was planning to start his own private practice. He agreed, in the interim, to take a job at a clinic on a small rugged island off the west coast of Kyushu. That was back in 1978. Dr. Setoue only intended to stay for six months, but he has been there ever since. Dr. Setoue had to work hard to gain the trust of islanders who assumed that high quality health care was only available on the mainland. In time, not only did those who lived on the island turn to him for help, many who had left the island returned for an operation or to give birth to a child. In the meantime, the doctor developed a deep respect and admiration for his fellow islanders, as he learned from them about both life and death.