Dr Louis Peachey is a Girrimay man from the Djirribaligan language group (Rainforest People) of North Queensland. He is a Senior Medical Officer at the Atherton District Hospital where he works as a Rural Generalist Anaesthetist, and runs a regular clinic at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre. Dr Peachey was the founding President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA), and is a former Board member of ACRRM. He has been an advocate for Rural and Indigenous Health for more than 25 years. He served in Mount Isa as a Senior Lecturer and Medical Educator for MICRRA. Through the Mount Isa Simman Partnership, his team delivered training to remote areas surrounding Mount Isa. Louis was also one of the founding crew of the ACRRM ALS Course. Dr Peachey served on the National Board of Headspace - National Youth Mental Health Foundation. His time on the board saw a national increase of 80% in the numbers of Indigenous Youth accessing Headspace.

ACRRM President: Associate Professor Ruth Stewart MBBS, PhD (Flin), FACRRM, DRANZCOG, Thursday Island, QLD Dr Ruth Stewart is Associate Professor of Rural Medicine, Director of Rural Clinical Training and Support at James Cook University. She lives and works on Thursday Island as a Senior Medical Officer with obstetric credentialing. Ruth is Vice Chair of the Torres and Cape York Hospital and Health Service. Before moving to Queensland in 2012 Ruth and her husband Dr Anthony Brown worked for twenty-two years as procedural GPs in Camperdown in South West Victoria. Ruth was on the ACRRM Board from 2002 to 2012 as director for Women in Rural Practice, Victorian Director and as Vice President. She is currently Chair of the ACRRM Education Council. She has represented ACRRM on many committees including the Consultative Committee on the Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and the Nurse Practitioner Advisory Group to the Department of Health and Ageing and as an executive member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the National Evidence Based Antenatal Care Guidelines. In December 2013 Ruth was granted a PhD from Flinders University for her thesis on a rural maternity managed clinical network. Her research interests include rural maternity services, rural health and rural medical education.