Dr Owen Bradfield
MBBS(Hons), BMedSc(Hons), LLB, MBA, PhD, FRACGP
Dr Owen Bradfield is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Medical Indemnity Protection Society. Owen is a dual-qualified medical practitioner and health lawyer, with nearly 20 years’ experience in medical and legal practice, comprising over 10 years’ experience in the medical indemnity insurance industry. He has advised and represented health practitioners in a range of medico-legal disputes, including civil claims, regulatory complaints, employment disputes, Coronial inquests and Medicare investigations. Owen is passionate about advocating for fair regulatory and legal processes for healthcare practitioners and supporting members who are navigating complex medico-legal problems. Owen combines his role at MIPS with health law research at the University of Melbourne, where he examines the intersection between doctors’ health and legal claims. Owen’s research has been internationally recognised and he is a 2020 Fulbright Scholar and winner of the 2022 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research in the Health Services Research category. Owen is also the immediate past Chairperson of Victoria’s Patient Review Panel and a member of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Ethics Committee.
Dr Carrie-Anne McKenzie
Dr Carrie-Anne McKenzie is a RACGP Fellow and Rural Generalist originally from Darwin.
She has spent the last 12 years in the Northern Territory, with almost 10 of those in Katherine, before moving back to Mt Gambier, South Australia two years ago.
She graduated from Flinders University medical program at the end of 2010, and did 2009 and 2010 of the course in Mt Gambier before moving back to Darwin for her internship.
In the NT, Dr McKenzie worked in Royal Darwin Hospital for two years, predominantly in Emergency, and then moved to Katherine to work in mainstream general practice for 18 months. Dr McKenzie became the sole doctor in an Aboriginal community for 6 years, as well as working in the Katherine Hospital ED. She then moved on to Clinical Lead in the main town-based Aboriginal Medical Service, as well as doing Aged Care.
Prior to leaving Katherine, Dr McKenzie went back to work in Katherine Hospital and developed, coordinated and led the COVID response for the Big Rivers Region alongside the two physicians, facilitating timely access to advice for clinicians across the region as well as streamlining access for hospital admission for patients.
Currently, Dr McKenzie is a Medicolegal Advisor for MIPS, as well as Director of the Flinders University Limestone Coast Regional Training Hub, and in 2023 completed the Future Leaders Program through RACGP. She is also a Board Director on the Limestone Coast Local Health Network Board.