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GPET Board

The GPET Board is appointed by the Minister of Health and Ageing

As of 9 August 2011

	Professor Simon Willcock (Chair) MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACGP Professor Simon Willcock is a general practitioner who has worked in both rural and urban NSW. He is Chair of General Practice Education and Training, Discipline Head of General Practice at the University of Sydney, and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training in the Sydney Medical Program. His educational and research interests include health workforce development (including generational change in the medical workforce, musculoskeletal medicine and the health of doctors. Professor Willcock is an independent director of Health Workforce Australia and a member director of the medical indemnity insurance provider AVANT.
	Associate Professor Elizabeth Chalmers FACRRM, FAFPHM, FChAM Associate Professor Elizabeth Chalmers is a nominee of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. She is also the Chair of the Northern Territory Postgraduate Medical Council and of the board of the Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils (CPMEC). Elizabeth has made a solid contribution to rural GP training, public health and Indigenous health matters.
	Dr Ruth Kearon MBBS, FRACGP Dr Ruth Kearon has a general practice background and has worked in urban, regional and rural areas in Tasmania and Western Australia. Ruth currently works with Health Workforce Australia providing clinical advice on national health workforce planning. She has previously provided health policy advice to Federal and State Health Ministers.
	Prof Michael Kidd AM, MBBS, MD, DCCH, Dip. RACOG, FRACGP, FACHI, FAFPM (Honorary), FHKCFP (Honorary), FCGPSL (Honorary), MAICD Professor Michael Kidd AM is a general practitioner and executive dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University. He is a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the president-elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) and the Patron of the General Practice Students Network.
	Ms Glenda Humes Ms Glenda Humes is a nominee of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) as appointed by the Minister for Health and Ageing.
	Dr David Knowles MBBS, FRACGP, DCH Dr David Knowles is currently the Chair of the Tasmania Faculty of RACGP and works in clinical practice at Lauderdale Doctors Surgery, just outside Hobart. David has an ongoing commitment to medical education and assessment having worked as a medical educator with WAGPET and GPEA, and has been assessment panel Chair for WA and Tasmania RACGP Faculties and recently Chair/Director of General Practice Training Tasmania.
	Dr Rachel Lee MBBS, BA, MPH Dr Rachel Lee completed her training in 2010 and has a strong commitment to general practice work with marginalised populations, medical education and primary care research. She undertook an academic post GP during her General Practice Training program at the University of Melbourne, Department of General Practice. Her research interests include health workforce issues and generalism, the health of marginalised populations and health economics. Rachel is on maternity leave from her clinical work at a community health centre in Collingwood, Victoria. Rachel also works as a medical editor with the Australian Family Physician, a position she began as part of her general practice training.
	Dr Elizabeth Marles B.Med (Hons), B.Sc (Hons), FRACGP, Dip.Ed, FAICD Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Marles is currently the Vice President of the RACGP and Chair of the NSW and ACT Faculty of the RACGP. She is the Deputy Director of the Hornsby-Brooklyn GP Unit which specialises in prevocational GP training. In addition Liz is a GP at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern where she has worked for the past 15 years. Prior to these current appointments, Liz was a foundation Director of GPET from 2000-2004, and has been a Lecturer in the Department of General Practice at the University of Sydney.
	Dr Michael Taylor MBBS, DCCH, FRACGP, GMAICD Dr Michael Taylor was nominated by Australian General Practice Network. Dr Taylor is a practising GP and is Medical Director at the Adelaide Hills Division of General Practice. Michael is an experienced board member, having held positions on the boards of the South Australian Division of General Practice Inc. (SADI) and the Australian General Practice Network.
	Dr Siew-Lee Thoo MBBS, BMedSci, FRACGP Dr Siew-Lee Thoo is a GP anaesthetist currently employed at Kununurra District Hospital. Her work involves GP clinics, remote indigenous clinics, inpatient care, emergency and anaesthetics. Siew-Lee completed her GP registrar training in 2006 based in Perth and rural WA with WAGPET. During her training time, she was a GP registrar liaison officer for WAGPET, a General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA) board director and GPRA Vice President.
	Dr Eve Tsironis MBBS (Hons Syd), FACRRM, FRACGP Dr Eve Tsironis grew up in Sydney in a Greek immigrant family and moved to Coonabarabran in 1997, where she has been a principal of a private practice and VMO at the local district hospital. Dr Tsironis trained at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Eve has served on the Council of AMA (NSW), the management committee of RDA (NSW), the strategic development sub-committee of the NH&MRC and the Medical Services Committee of NSW. She holds the FACRRM and FRACGP and is a registrar supervisor and examiner for both colleges. Eve has recently relocated her family to Sydney and has established a new Medical Practice in the lower North Shore suburb of Cammeray. Eve is an adjunct senior lecturer at both University of Sydney and University of Notre Dame, and values medical education. Her interests include emergency medicine, woman and child health and chronic disease management.
	Mr David Watts BA, LLB, MIPAA David Watts is a lawyer with both public and private sector experience. Formerly the Assistant Secretary, Legal Branch, Department of Health and Ageing and Director Legal Services of the Victorian Department of Human Services, he has been closely involved with key regulatory reforms in the health sector including e-health, public health and health practitioner regulation. David's professional interests include intellectual property, information and international law. He is currently the Victorian Commissioner for Law Enforcement Data Security.