Joan Burns is Manager, Policy and Research for GP Supervisors Australia. She joined the GPSA team in 2016 bringing with her a track record of success in medical education, general practice research, administration and management. She managed the Bi-College RTP Accreditation Program for ACRRM and RACGP. Joan’s research record is in the area of chronic disease management in general practice and medical specialist curriculum development. She has held senior positions in a number of Australasian specialist medical colleges and provided consultancy services to Aboriginal companies, the mining industry and international specialist medical colleges. She holds a conjoint appointment with the University of New South Wales.

Joan Burns joined the GPSA team in 2016 bringing with her a track record of success in medical education, general practice research, administration and management. She managed the first round of the Bi-College RTP Accreditation Program for ACRRM and RACGP from 2014-2016. Joan’s research record is in the area of chronic disease management in general practice and medical specialist curriculum development. She has held senior positions in a number of Australasian specialist medical colleges and provided consultancy services to Aboriginal companies, the mining industry and international specialist medical colleges. She holds a conjoint appointment with the University of New South Wales.

Jane has worked in the health industry for 25 years, combining pharmacy experience with ICT and Project Management. She joined ACRRM in September 2013 after working for Queensland Health managing multiple enterprise ICT implementation projects. The most recent being the government funded connection to the My Health Record which included connecting to the National Healthcare Identifier Service, producing discharge summaries and referrals compliant with national eHealth standards, and integrating the My Health Record system with Queensland Health medical record viewer solution. Jane is responsible for ACRRM’s Digital Health program.

Dr John Douyere is a practicing rural generalist in Longreach, QLD. He is also the Medical Director of the Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway.

Dr Tom Gleeson is a rural generalist in St George, QLD. He is credentialed in anaesthetics, obstetrics and has recently completed training and credentialing in gastroscopy and colonoscopy. He has helped to create the rural generalist endoscopy program within Queensland Health and has been involved with the development of the South West Hospital and Health Service's open access rural generalist endoscopy service.

Susan’s primary telehealth experience has been the introduction of organisation-wide integrated telehealth-to-consumer access in large metropolitan hospitals, specifically at the Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne) – which included the introduction of an Electronic Medical Record – and currently at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Susan has also delivered several additional telehealth consultancy services including to the ANF, APNA and others. She presents regularly, has published and is a member of the National Telehealth Working Group, providing recommendations to the National Health CIO Forum on telehealth strategy, Australasian Telehealth Society and the newly formed ATIP – Australian Telehealth Integration Program. Susan is an NZ, HK and US Registered Nurse, with a Master of Public Health degree and Graduate Certificate in eHealthcare. She has worked in New Zealand, Hong Kong, China and Australia in various clinical and non-clinical roles.

Dr Hamish Meldrum, FRACGP, DRANZCOG Hamish is a co-founding owner of the Ochre Health Group in 2002 and is the Director of Medical Services. He is a NZ medical graduate with experience in General Practice, Emergency Medicine and Obstetrics. He worked in Bourke NSW for 5 years as a GP Obstetrician and since 2006 has been based in Sydney as the Director of Medical Services. He is an examiner for the RACGP Fellowship exam and assists with clinical governance, GP research, quality improvement, and clinical support for doctors in the Ochre Health Group.

Associate Professor Chris Pearce has been active in health informatics for many years. A practicing clinician, he still works in general practice, anaesthetics and emergency medicine in suburban Melbourne. His interest in Health Informatics developed when working as a rural GP, and observed the difficulties in GPs integrating computers into their workflow in the 1990’s. A/Prof Pearce has extensively researched computers in healthcare, with a focus on the interactions and useability. He was awarded a PhD in 2007 with what was then the largest video based study of computer use in primary care consultations. He is an invited speaker both here and overseas, and the author of over 60 academic articles. He was the clinical design lead for the MyHR, Australia’s national shared health record. As co-sponsor of the MAGNET database, his role as director of research with Outcome Health is to work with Monash university on data quality and use of Australia’s largest repository of general practice data. He is a current president of the Australasian College of Health Informatics, chairs the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine’s digital health committee and has served on many federal and state government advisory committees.

Glen Wallace is CEO of GP Supervisors Australia. He brings more than 15 years stakeholder engagement, strategic communications and management experience in the clinical training sector to the role. Glen works closely to foster strong relationships across the sector. Glen’s experience working across state government, not for profit and private enterprise sectors, large regional hospitals and regional roles has led to year-on-year growth in membership and stakeholder engagement for the organisation. Glen has a successful history in business development, funding submission writing and contract management which has supported the distribution of more than $4 million in clinical education support programs and infrastructure funding over the past 5 years. Glen has worked for the Victorian Department of Health on the Clinical Training Networks and Governance team. Glen also worked with supervisors and RTOs during his employment with Northern Territory General Practice Education (NTGPE) giving him a unique vantage point working within and externally to RTOs delivering the AGPT Program. Glen is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and his board governance experience includes Alice Springs Youth Accommodation and Support Services Board. Glen is passionate about volunteerism and community and respects the passion and enthusiasm GP supervisors bring to GP training in a largely unpaid capacity.