Dr Karen Nicholls
Dr Karen Nicholls, a Torres Strait Islander woman descending from Boigu Island in the Torres Strait. Since receiving her Fellowship with the RACGP in 2010, Dr Nicholls has worked predominantly in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation sector and academia. Passionate about health equity and growing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce, Dr Nicholls is currently working in full-time academia at the University of Newcastle where she originally studied medicine. Late last year she joined the college’s 65th Board when she was elected Chair of RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health – a role in which she feels privileged and proud to be a female GP representing this space.