MBBS, MPH&TM, DipRACOG, FACRRM, FRACGP

Professor Richard Murray is Dean of Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University (JCU). Richard is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and trained as a procedural rural doctor and in public health. He previously headed the Rural Clinical School at JCU, prior to which he was Medical Director of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council where he had broad ranging clinical, population health, teaching, research and medical administration/management roles. He has participated widely in the national Indigenous and remote health policy agenda reflected in his research and publication record.

MBBS, DRANZCOG (Adv), Grad Dip Mus Med, FACRRM, FRACGP

Dr Tim Kelly is currently the Treasurer on the ACRRM Board.  He is a procedural rural GP based in Crystal Brook in South Australia’s Mid North.  Through his clinical work he is involved in medical education at all levels, students, PGPPP and registrars.  He has also been employed by Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program since 2003 in several roles and is currently Rural Medical Education Coordinator and ACRRM Medical Advisor to the RTP.  He is interested in evolving models of primary care and innovative delivery of training and support to rural and remote clinicians.

MBBS FACRRM

Dr Jukka an international medical graduate who has lived and worked in rural Austral for the past 25 years. Based in Atherton in north Queensland , she works part-time for Queensland Health and is an academic with James Cook University Rural Clinical School.

Her interests are medical education and health reform, rural medicine(especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health) and women’s health.

She is  an examiner (Structured Assessment using Multiple Patient Scenario: StAMPS) and active member of ACRRM.

MBBS (MONASH), DAc.(Hons), FACRRM, FRACGP

Graduate of Monash University of Melbourne. He opted to pursue a rural medical career while he was training to be a surgeon in Melbourne. He was the solo GP VMO to the township of Coolah, Northwest NSW for eleven years.

He was involved in teaching medical students and doctors throughout his career. He was an Anatomy Demonstrator at Monash University and holds a Clinical Lecturer position with Rural Faculty of University of Sydney. He contributed to the ACRRM Advanced Surgical Curriculum.

He also served as a Board Member for the Rural Doctors Network for six years, elected Councillor for the Warrumbungle Shire Council for four years, and Vice-President /President of Rural Doctors Association of NSW. He has been a strong advocate for Rural Health in Australia throughout his career.

Dr Mike Beckoff is a Rural Procedural General Practitioner at the Bridge Clinic in South Australia and also performs a lot of private locums.  He is involved in the South Australian Health Performance Council, South Australian Health Clinical Senate, Country Health South Australia Local Health Network, Clinical Advisor (Mental Health), General Practice South Australian Board Treasurer and Murray Mallee General Practice Network Board Chair.

The spectrum of his medical expertise encompasses surgery (including obstetrics); rural emergency medicine; clinical governance, safety and quality; health planning strategy, planning and policy; mental health, sexual therapy, company director and board chair.

He represents rural general practice on the GP role on the NPS Medicines Line Advisory Group. He was nominated for the role by ACRRM.

MBBS, MPH&TM

Dr Peter Chilcott graduated in Queensland and has spent his whole career practicing  in rural and remote Australia.  For the first twenty years he worked as a procedural GP in Anaesthetics, Obstetrics and Surgery at both Mareeba and Atherton in North Queensland.  He has been involved in Aboriginal Health for most of his career having lived and worked for the last fifteen years in the communities of Woorabinda, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt before taking up his current position as the Director of Medical Services at Gove District Hospital in the Northern Territory where he is actively involved in GP registrar training and helping to develop the Northern Territory’s Rural Generalist Pathway. 

BM, BS, FACRRM, FRACGP, Dip. RANZCOG

Dr Graham Morris was appointed RDAA Representative on the ACRRM Board in July 2009 and is currently practicing at Kadina Medical Centre. He is current president of RDASA.