About A/Prof Ruth Stewart

Location: Thursday Island, QLD

Dr Ruth Stewart is Associate Professor of Rural Medicine, Director of Rural Clinical Training and Support at James Cook University. She lives and works on Thursday Island as a Senior Medical Officer with obstetric credentialing. Ruth is Vice Chair of the Torres and Cape York Hospital and Health Service.

Before moving to Queensland in 2012 Ruth and her husband Dr Anthony Brown worked for twenty-two years as procedural GPs in Camperdown in South West Victoria. Ruth was on the ACRRM Board from 2002 to 2012 as director for Women in Rural Practice, Victorian Director and as Vice President. She is currently Chair of the ACRRM Education Council. She has represented ACRRM on many committees including the Consultative Committee on the Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and the Nurse Practitioner Advisory Group to the Department of Health and Ageing and as an executive member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the National Evidence Based Antenatal Care Guidelines.

In December 2013 Ruth was granted a PhD from Flinders University for her thesis on a rural maternity managed clinical network. Her research interests include rural maternity services, rural health and rural medical education.