Dr James Brown is a GP supervisor in a small rural town. He is also a senior medical educator at EV GP Training where he oversees EV’s educational research program and the professional development for supervisors. He has a particular interest in the supervisory relationship. Dr Belinda Garth and Dr Catherine Kirby are post-doctoral researchers with extensive experience in undertaking GP based research. Prof Debra Nestel holds professorial chairs in health education at both Monash and Melbourne University and has provided academic leadership for a number GP vocational education projects.

Prof Sarah Strasser trained in the UK at the Royal Free Hospital, University of London, and undertook vocational training in General Practice in Cornwall, UK and London, Ontario, Canada. Currently, she is Head of the Rural Clinical School, University of Queensland, UQRCS. UQRCS is the largest RCS in Australia with 200 medical students at any one time and 500 student placements per year. In the past Professor Strasser has been involved in a number of innovative Australian rural health workforce Initiatives including the Remote Vocational Training Scheme, RVTS; the Northern Territory Medical Program, NTMP; and the Greater Northern Australia Regional Training Network, GNARTN. She has worked across the continuum of the curriculum UG - PG- CME/CPD, as part of her work for a number of Universities and the Professional Colleges in Australia and Canada. In Australia she has worked at Monash, Flinders and Queensland Universities; RACGP training program as National Director of Rural Training & National Director Indigenous Health Training; and, as National Medical Advisor for ACCRM. In Canada she held leadership positions within the Northern Ontario School of Medicine including as Director of Faculty Development and Phase 2 Coordinator (Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship 3rd year of the MD program). More recently she was Associate Vice President Academics and Inter-professional Practice at the regional academic health science centre, Health Sciences North, Ontario, with a particular interest in Quality Improvement and Organizational Change. In 2016 Professor Strasser led the successful bids for the Regional Training Hubs for UQRCS based in Southern Queensland, Wide Bay and Central Queensland, and was a member of the steering committee with the successful UDRH for the University of Queensland and partners. Professor Strasser is on a number of rural health workforce research studies and is helping to implement new specialist training in rural and regional Queensland.

Amanda Tapley is a senior research officer at GP Synergy. She works on a number of research projects including the ReCEnT project, an education and research project exploring the clinical encounters of GP registrars, involving management of the project, data management and analysis. She has previously completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) and a Master of Medical Statistics.