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.