MBBS MPH&TM DRANZCOG FRACGP  FACRRM

Dr Carmel Nelson has spent most of her working life in remote northern Australia. She was the initial registrar for the Remote Vocational Training Scheme pilot and subsequently spent the best part of a decade as a supervisor with RVTS. From 1998 to 2011 she worked as a remote area GP in the Kimberley region of Western Australia; for the latter six years she was Medical Director with the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council. In late 2011, Dr Nelson took up the position of Clinical Director with the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, with a focus on Southeast Queensland.

Dr Nelson was a founding member of ACRRM’s Women in Rural Health and Indigenous Health working groups, a member of the College Board in the late 1990s, and has been a member of the ACRRM Vocational Training Committee for the last 3 years.

MBBS, PhD DCH, DipRACOG, FRACGP, FACRRM

Associate Professor Lucie Walters was appointed Academic Director on the ACRRM Board in December 2009.  Lucie is currently Associate Professor in Rural Medical Education at Flinders University and also works as a GP Obstetrician at Mount Gambier Hospital.  Lucie’s key areas of interest are community based medical education, rural health, social determinants of health and women’s health with her key expertise being in rural medical education development, curriculum design and course delivery in undergraduate and post graduate areas.

Dr Charles Evill is a rural medical practitioner from northern NSW. He has practiced in several states in urban, rural and remote settings. He is currently in practice in Alstonville and Evans Head as well as providing relieving emergency services in peripheral hospitals in the area. He is also involved in undergraduate teaching through the University Department of Rural Health in Lismore.

B.Sc., MBBS, FACRRM

Dr Arvier was appointed to the position of Tasmanian Director in April 2010.  He has extensive experience in medical education and training with the University of Tasmania as well as at other teaching facilities.  During his medical career, he worked mainly in rural and regional hospitals across Australia before settling in Tasmania in 1990 to pursue a career in emergency medicine.  In 2005, he moved to Canada with his family to work and pursue clinical and research interests in rural emergency medicine and complete a research Masters degree through the UDRH. On returning to Australia, he took up a position with the Rural Clinical School as well as continuing to work part time in the emergency departments of the North West Regional and Mersey Hospitals.

MBBS, DRANZCOG, FACRRM

Dr Michael Eaton is the current Western Australia Director on the ACRRM Board.  He has a strong association with ACRRM’s education, training, and student programs and is a procedural practitioner and rural medical educator. He is also the current Vice President of the RDA WA. From 1986 to 2006 he was the Founder-Manager of Coast Road Medical Clinic, a RRMA 5 GP obstetric practice. He now lives and works in rural and remote WA where he is WAGPET’s rural medical advisor and their rural adviser for ACRRM and the RACGP. He is also a Medical Director of Rural Health West. 

Dr Goodwin is an ACRRM registrar based in Alice Springs, NT. He has been living in the Territory for the last 6 years having completed medical school, internship and residency there. He currently works for the Royal Flying Doctors Service as part of the retrieval service for the Alice Springs Hospital.
He is actively involved in education and training, from governance of prevocational training in the territory to his own fellowship training. He is a councilor on the Northern Territory Postgraduate Medical Council and established the medical training committee at Alice Springs Hospital. He was awarded the CPMEC NT junior doctor of the year in 2009, for his contribution to medical education and training in the Territory.
He continues with higher education, currently undertaking a masters’ of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University.

MBBS, DRANZCOG, FACRRM

Associate Professor Ruth Stewart was elected Women in Rural Practice (WIRP) Director for the second time in December 2009, having served previously as the Vice President and Victorian Director on the ACRRM Board. She represents ACRRM on a number of other external committees including the National Evidence Based Antenatal Guideline Expert Advisory Committee. She is Director of Clinical Studies, Integrated Model of Medical Education in Rural Settings with the Deakin University School of Medicine (Deakin IMMERSe).