Ms Megan Cahill is the CEO of Rural Workforce Agency Victoria and oversee the administration of the Victorian GP Rural Generalist program. Megan is committed to facilitating sustainable health workforce solutions and improving the health outcomes for rural Victorian communities.

David Campbell has practised as a rural doctor in Lakes Entrance, Victoria since 1983 and is a foundation member and Fellow of the College. He served for many years on the College Board, first as the Victorian Director, then Vice President, then President. David is currently Director of the East Gippsland Regional Clinical School and Associate Professor, Rural Community-Based Medical Education, with Monash University. He is a member of the Committee of Management of Rural Doctors’ Association of Victoria. Dr Campbell is a Director of Gippsland Education and Training for General Practice, and has recently joined the Board of “Southern GP Training” in Victoria. He has special interests in medical education and emergency medicine, and is an instructor with Advanced Paediatric Life Support Australia, as well as principal author and instructor with the “Rural Emergency Skills Training” Course in Australia.

Dr Paul Cutting, Director of the Rural Distribution Section within the Rural Access Branch of the Commonwealth’s Department of Health. His current responsibilities include the management of the Commonwealth programs delivered through the Rural Workforce Agencies; the maintenance of the Modified Monash Model remoteness classification, which is being used by a range of health workforce programs to better direct resources to areas of need; and the annual updating of the Districts of Workforce Shortage system. Dr Cutting’s education is in pure mathematics, which he relied on in his previous work in the Department of Health’s Economic and Statistical Analysis Branch. In this former role, he provided assistance to areas across the Department in developing models and providing analysis across a range of health programs.

Dr Louise Manning is currently an Intern in Regional Victoria. She has a keen interest in sexual health and has recently undertaken a HIV s100 prescriber course to further her skills and knowledge in this area. Louise is a Rural Ambassador for Rural Workforce Agency Victoria and is involved with the ACRRM Future Generalists Committee as Events Liaison Officer.

Professor Jennifer May AM is Director of the University of Newcastle Department Of Rural Health (UoNDRH). Jenny’s role encompasses oversight of undergraduate teaching activities, research and evaluation in medicine and allied health disciplines across the University of Newcastle’s rural footprint. The UoNDRH aims to gain, train and retrain those with an interest in working in rural and remote Australia. Her research interests include medical workforce in particular the supply of specialists in non-metropolitan areas. She works as a GP at Peel Health Care, a not-for-profit general practice in Tamworth, NSW and is a GP supervisor for registrars. She holds fellowships of both the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australian College of Rural and Remote medicine. Jenny is also the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) representative on the National Rural Health Alliance. She has been involved in numerous committees and working parties around rural health issues and is on the Commonwealth Government advisory group on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD) and National Medical Advisory Training Network (NMTAN) and the Primary care committee of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in health Care. Jenny has lived and worked in the New England area since 1984 with a five year sojourn in remote Western Australia’s Pilbara and has had 2 yearlong working stints in rural practice in British Columbia Canada in 2004 and 2015-6. She was named Telstra RDAA Rural Doctor of the Year in November 2014 and received an Australia Medal AM for services to rural and regional health, education and professional groups in 2016

Professor Lucie Walters MBBS, PhD DCH, DipRACOG, FRACGP, FACRRM Prof Lucie Walters is the Immediate Past President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM). She was appointed Academic Director on the College Board in December 2009. Lucie is currently Professor in Rural Medical Education at Flinders University and also works as a GP Obstetrician at Mount Gambier Hospital. Lucie’s key areas of interest are community based medical education, rural health, social determinants of health and women’s health with her key expertise being in rural medical education development, curriculum design and course delivery in undergraduate and post graduate areas.