RACGP 52nd Council
The RACGP was established in 1958 to maintain high standards of learning and conduct in General Practice. The Royal Australian College of GPs is governed by the RACGP Council comprising President, Censor in Chief, the chair of each state/territory faculty, Chair of the National Rural Faculty, a General Practice Registrar Representative, and if council so resolves, up to two co-opted members. Council meets monthly alternating with a teleconference and face to face meeting.
Dr Chris Mitchell BMed, DipRACOG, FRACGP, FACRRM, Grad Dip Rural, FARGP, FAICD
President 
Chris Mitchell is President of the RACGP and the immediate
past Chair
of the RACGP National Rural Faculty. He was a member of the RACGP
National Expert Committee on Standards for General Practices
contributing to the successful RACGP Standards for general
practices (3rd edition). Chris has been a rural general practitioner
in northern New South Wales for 20 years and has an appointment at
Ballina Hospital.
He has over 10 years experience as a Director of not for profit boards, gaining a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Until his election to the RACGP Presidency he chaired North Coast General Practice Training, a regional general practice training provider, and is a general practice mentor, supervisor and examiner. He is also has a range of experience on the boards including the Northern Rivers GP Network, the New South Wales Rural Workforce Agency, the Rural Doctors Network (RDN), and the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS), which provides general practice training in Australia's remote communities.
Dr Morton Rawlin BMed, MMedSci, FRACGP, FACRRM, DipPractDerm, DipMedHyp, DipFP, DipBusAdmin
Vice President – Chair, Victorian Faculty
Morton Rawlin is Vice President of the RACGP and Chair of
the
Victorian Faculty. His most recent position was as National Director of
Educational Services for the RACGP. Morton has extensive experience in
medical education in General Practice at all levels. After graduating he
spent five years in hospital medicine followed by 11 years in full
time rural General Practice. During that time he became a GP supervisor
and sessional medical educator. His past professional appointments
include Medical Director of Dianella Community Health, National Manager
of Fellowship Programs for GPEA RACGP and National Director of
Educational Services for the RACGP. He also held a position as Senior
Lecturer in Rural General Practice at the University of Melbourne. Dr
Rawlin has had a long interest in competency assessment and training,
having served as the Exam Panel Chair for the RACGP for five years
in Victoria and is Principal Examiner for the Overseas Trained Doctor
Program assessment process for the Medical Board of Victoria. His
research and teaching interests are in standards in general practice, GP
teaching, integration of teaching, adolescent health and dermatology.
Prof. Peter Mudge MBBS, FRACGP, FAFPHM
Chair of Council
Peter Mudge is Chair of Council. He is chair of the RACGP
National Research
Awards Committee and a member of the RACGP Research Foundation board.
His previous appointment was Foundation Clinical Dean of the North
Queensland Clinical School of the University of Queensland (now the
James Cook School of Medicine) and he is Emeritus Professor of General
Practice at the University of Queensland.
Dr David Knowles MBBS FRACGP DCH
Chair, Tasmania Faculty
David Knowles is Chair of the Tasmania Faculty. He is a GP in Tasmania
and shares his clinical time between Lauderdale Doctors Surgery and
GPAssist. He is the current Chair of General Practice Training Tasmania
and has served as Exam Panel Chair for the Tasmania Faculty since 2006.
David completed his undergraduate training in Tasmania but began his
general practice career in Perth, Western Australia. During this period
he worked as a medical educator for GPEA and became involved in
providing supervisor and IMG support for WAGPET. He was also Exam Panel
Chair for Western Australia Faculty for two years.
With his young family, David moved back to Tasmania in 2005 taking the
role as EPC and in 2008, accepted the role of Deputy Chair of the
Tasmania Faculty Board.
David remains passionate about medical education, the central role of
general practitioners in primary care and, crucially, life balance for
GPs and their families.
Assoc. Prof. Jan Radford MBBS FRACGP MPM
Censor in Chief
Jan is Associate Professor of general practice at the
University of Tasmania based at the Launceston Clinical School. Her
research interest is in medical education. She has been involved in
RACGP committees for 15 years, being censor for Tasmania in 2001 – 2006.
She became RACGP Censor in Chief in October 2006. She chairs the RACGP
Board of Censors, Board of Assessment and the Research and Development
subcommittee of the Board of Assessment. Jan sits on the RACGP National
Standing Committee – Education and is a member of the RACGP Membership
Committee. She has been a partner in her clinical practice for 23 years
and has a clinical interest in mental health care.
Dr. W. Jane Smith MBBS, FRACGP, Grad Dip FM, MHS
Chair, Queensland Faculty
Jane Smith is the Chair of the Queensland Faculty. She has
worked as a general practitioner in Perth, then Brisbane,
and more recently on the Gold Coast. She has been involved in
general practice education for many years as a general practice
supervisor, lecturer and examiner at both the undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. She is currently Associate Professor of General
Practice at Bond University Medical Program and lectures and
provides general practice care at Griffith University. Her special
interests include quality care, preventive medicine, evidence based
practice and research. She has chaired the RACGP Skin Cancer
Joint Consultative Committee, Membership committee and has also been
vice chair of the National Standing Committee Quality Care. She is a
member of the taskforce that produced the RACGP Guidelines for
preventive activities in general practice (6th and 7th editions). Other
directorships include the Australian Medicines Handbook and the General
Practice Gold Coast.
Dr Kathryn Kirkpatrick MBBS, FRACGP, FACRRM, Grad Dip Health Studies (General Practice)
Councillor – Chair, National Rural Faculty
Kathryn Kirkpatrick is a GP in Dalby, Queensland and Chair
of the
National Rural Faculty. She was a member of the RACGP National Standing
Committee – Education from 2002-2004 and has been involved at all levels
of medical education. Kathryn currently works part time as rural
advisor/medical educator for Central and Southern Queensland Training
Consortium, is RACGP representative on the Remote Vocational Training
Scheme Board, National Rural Faculty representative on the National
Rural Health Alliance and a member of the Queensland Faculty Board
Executive.
Prof. Nigel Stocks BSc MBBS DipPH MD FRACGP FAFPHM
Councillor – Chair, South Australia and Northern Territory
Faculty
Nigel is director of the RACGP Australian Sentinel Practices Research
Network (ASPREN) and served on the RACGP National Standing Committee –
Research until 2008. He is Professor and Head of the discipline of
general practice at the University of Adelaide with research interests
that include cardiovascular, respiratory and mental health. He trained
in Adelaide but worked for several years as a GP in the UK. His current
practice is at Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills.
Dr Peter Maguire MBBS, Dip RANZCOG, FRACGP
Councillor – Chair, Western Australia Faculty
Peter Maguire entered full-time General Practice in 1982
and spent
nine years in an outer urban practice south of Perth. He then pursued
interests in medical education, taking a full time Medical Educator
position with the Family Medicine Program, which subsequently became the
RACGP Training Program. He now works for the WAGPET, the WA Regional
Training Provider, as an educational consultant, as well as continuing
part-time clinical practice in Claremont. He has also been a member of
various RACGP Education committees since 1989.
Dr Brad Murphy MBBS, AssocDipApplSc(AMB), CertST&D, MAIES, AIMM, MACTM, MACAP, MAITD
Chair, National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Health
Brad Murphy is Chair of the RACGP National Faculty of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. He is also a practising
GP in rural Queensland, and understands the challenges of rural general
practice. Brad, an Aboriginal man from the Kamilaroi people of North
West NSW, joined the Royal Australian Navy at the age of 15, opting for
a career as a medic. Many years later, he joined the New South Wales
Ambulance Service and advanced through several levels of training
including intensive care paramedics, ultimately supervising and
instructing in clinical paramedicine. He also worked as a paramedic at
Uluru. Brad is also treasurer of the Rural Doctors Association of
Queensland and one of three trustees of the Jimmy Little
Foundation.
Dr Liz Marles BMed(Hons), BSc(Hons), FRACGP, DipEd
Councillor - Chair, NSW and ACT Faculty
Liz Marles is the Chair of the NSW and ACT Faculty of the
RACGP. She
is also the Deputy Director of the Hornsby GP Unit which specialises in
prevocational education, taking 10 PGPPP placements per year. For the
past 12 years she has also worked at Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service,
where she is a Supervisor and has a special interest in diabetes. Prior
to her current roles, Liz has also been a foundation Director on the
GPET Board, and a Lecturer in the department of General Practice at the
University of Sydney. She is passionate about the future of General
Practice, GP Training and Aboriginal Health
Dr Naomi Harris MBBS
Councillor – GP Registrar Representative/Chair, Membership
Committee
Naomi Harris has been involved with many organizations
throughout the
course of her training. Her first role was as the Registrar
Representative on the Board of the National Rural Faculty. Since then
she has been working at a Board level with Greater Green Triangle GPET,
her training provider where she is also the RLO, Otway Division of
General Practice, the South West Country Division of the AMA, and is on
the National Advisory Council for the PGPPP program. Naomi has most
recently been the Chair of GPRA. She has also passed her Fellowship
exams and will complete an academic post at the RACGP in 2009. Naomi's
interests are strongly based around registrar issues, education and
rural practice.
Mr Neil Greenaway FCA, FCPA, FCIS, FAICD
Co-opted Member - Chair, Finance, Audit and Risk Management
Committee
Neil Greenaway is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants
in Australia, a Fellow of the Certified Practising Accountants of
Australia, a Fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia (CSA) and a
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Neil was the
independent external representative (finance) on the RACGP FARM
Committee from 2002 prior to
joining RACGP Council and being appointed Chairman of the FARM
Committee in 2008. Neil was appointed an honorary member of RACGP
in 2006. Neil is also Deputy Chairman of the Trustees of the
Necropolis Springvale and a Councillor and Committee Chairman of
CSA (Victoria). Neil has held executive governance and finance
positions at Medibank Private and St Vincent's Health and is presently
a consultant.
