College Council

The College Council responds to issues the Board refers to it and raises issues to the Board that the College Council feels need consideration.

The composition of the College Council enables a variety of member and non-member perspectives to be heard in a single forum.

The Council is a representative body of up to 47 Fellows and trainees that includes:

a Fellow appointed by the Aotearoa New Zealand Committee
a representative from each of the 26 identified Education Pathways (including Chapters) within the College
a Fellow appointed by each RACP Division Council
a Fellow appointed by each RACP Faculty Council
up to 4 trainees appointed by the College Trainees’ Committee
a Fellow appointed by each of the 7 Australian Regional Committees
a Māori representative and an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander representative, who may be Fellows, trainees or non-members of the RACP
a consumer representative from the RACP appointed Consumer Advisory Group or an approved delegate
the Chair of the College Education Committee

For more information, read the College Council By-law (PDF).

Council composition

College Council composition diagram

RACP Board Directors may attend Council meetings.

Chair	Professor Nicholas Buckmaster
Deputy Chair	Associate Professor Catherine O’Connor

Australian regional representatives
New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory	Dr Sayontonee Ghosh
Northern Territory	Dr Richard Budd
Queensland	Professor Nicholas Buckmaster
South Australia	Dr Rabin Bhandari
Tasmania	Dr Matt Lee-Archer
Victoria	Professor Judith Savige
Western Australia	Dr Poh-Kooi Loh

College Bodies, member and other representatives
Adult Medicine Division	Professor Graeme Maguire
Paediatrics & Child Health Division	Associate Professor Nitin Kapur
Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine	Dr Warren Harrex
Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine	Professor Jeanette Ward
Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine	Dr Jennifer Mann
Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr John Holmes
College Education Committee Chair	Associate Professor Mitra Guha
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander representative	Professor Ngiare Brown
Māori representative	Dr Tane Taylor
4 x Trainee representatives	Dr Edward Cliff, Dr Vanessa Wong, Dr Hashim Abdeen
Consumer representative	Ms Debra Letica

Education pathway representatives
Addiction Medicine	Professor John Saunders
Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine	Professor Susan Sawyer AM
Cardiology	vacant
Clinical Genetics	Dr Kathy Wu
Clinical Pharmacology	Dr Catherine Lucas
Community Child Health	Dr Anne Piper
Dermatology	vacant
Endocrinology and Chemical Pathology	Dr Cherie Chiang
Gastroenterology	Dr Malcolm Arnold
General and Acute Care Medicine	Dr Tony Ryan
General Paediatrics	Dr Jacqui Dalby-Payne
Geriatric Medicine Representative	Professor Vasikaran Naganathan
Haematology	Professor Steven Lane
Immunology and Allergy	Professor Michaela Lucas
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology	Professor Allen Cheng
Medical Oncology	vacant
Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine	vacant
Nephrology	Dr Tom Forbes
Neurology	Dr Manjo Menezes
Nuclear Medicine	Dr Elizabeth Clingan
Paediatric Emergency Medicine	vacant
Palliative Medicine	Professor Leeroy William
Respiratory Medicine	Professor John Upham
Rheumatology	Dr Samuel Whittle
Sexual Health Medicine	Associate Professor Catherine O'Connor
Sleep Medicine	Associate Professor Fergal O'Donoghue