MBBS, MPH&TM, FRACGP, FACRRM, FACTM, AFFTM, DRANZCOG, DA (UK)

Dr Jeff Ayton was appointed President of  the ACRRM Board in October 2009.  He holds current ACRRM board membership for General Practice Training Tasmania. He commenced with the Australian Antarctic Division as Chief Medical Officer in 2002 with responsibility for the Australian Antarctic program medical support and human biology and medicine research. He is current Australian delegate to Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research Life Sciences Scientific Group and deputy chief officer of the SCAR Life Science Expert Group of Human Biology and Medicine.  In 1992, Jeff wintered at Casey Station, Antarctica, as a remote area general practitioner. He has subsequently gained varied experience in other rural and remote medical practices as a procedural general practitioner obstetrician/anaesthetist including Lorne, Victoria, Norfolk Island, South Pacific, and remote mine sites in Papua New Guinea.