Michael trained as a generalist in the days when this was easy to do informally. Has been Medical superintendent in Mount Morgan, a generalist in Redcliffe emergency department, Deputy Medical Superintendent at Redcliffe, Medical Superintendent at Mater Adult Brisbane (one year locum), Principal Medical Advisor Queensland Health (drafted the generalist training programme with Denis Lennox) and, after a year of retraining at Redcliffe, became an RFDS medical officer in Rockhampton and then Mount Isa. After ten years with RFDS, retired due to eye and knee problems but remains keen to try to pass on some of the things he has learnt that he wishes someone had taught him 30 years ago.

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.

Dr Mike Eaton is a FACRRM, GP Obstetrician in Rural Western Australia

A/Prof Vasilios Nimorakiotakis MBBS, FACEM, FACRRM. Bill Nimo (full name Vasilios Nimorakiotakis) is an emergency physician and the deputy director of Epworth Richmond’s emergency department, Senior staff specialist with Retrieval Service Queensland (RSQ) and a senior staff specialist at Sunshine Hospital in Melbourne. He has a special interest in retrieval medicine, toxinology, emergency medicine in developing countries and teaching. Bill has been at Epworth Richmond emergency department for over 17 years. He is married to Cherie and has three awesome kids Isabelle, Luca and Noah.

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.