Meet the College Trainees’ Committee Executive:

Dr Kristof Wing
Chair & Tasmanian representative

I am a Basic Trainee in nipaluna/Hobart and am Chair of the College Trainees’ Committee. I am also Co-Chair of the Victorian-Tasmania Trainees’ Committee and am a member of several key bodies of the College, where I strive to advocate strongly for the interests of trainees. Education is at the core of the College’s identity and with Trainees making up almost one-third of the membership of the College we are well-placed to initiate and shape changes in the College.

I have a particular interest in seeing improvements in work and training culture, the responsiveness of the College to trainee requests, and material improvements in member wellbeing throughout training and fellowship. I intend to complete training in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, and to combine my love of immunogenomics, health system reform, and the red earth country to improve the health status of First Nations people in Australia, Aotearoa, and the Pacific. If at any time you think the CTC or I might be able help you, please do contact us.

Dr Timothy Hopgood
Deputy Chair & Aotearoa New Zealand Representative

Tim (he/him) is of Tongan, Maori (Ngāti Rereahu ki Ngāti Maniapoto) and European descent and brings a background of demonstrated leadership and advocacy through his training across Aotearoa. He is a life member of the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association and a member of the Institute of Directors of New Zealand. Currently, within RACP he is deputy co-chair of the CTC, Paediatrics & Child Health co-chair of the Aotearoa New Zealand Trainees Committee, on the Aotearoa-New Zealand Committee and on the General Paediatrics Advanced Training Committee.

He has trained in several sites across Aotearoa and maintains links to both rural and urban training sites. He is currently a senior registrar in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, having added Psychiatry training onto his General Paediatric training. His research interests are the broader determinants of health and addressing inequalities for Aotearoa New Zealand children.

Dr Aidan Tan
Trainee Director

Aidan is an ex-officio member of the College Trainees’ Committee as the trainee director of the RACP. Outside of the RACP, he’s a paediatric registrar with a broad range of involvement in clinical, research, academic and governance service, and is deputy chief resident medical officer at Sydney Children’s Hospital, with interests in infectious disease and general paediatrics. He’s a research affiliate at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre and Sydney Children’s Hospital, with experience in meta-research and open science.

Aidan is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Sydney and conjoint associate lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University, with expertise in evidence-based medicine. He's also a board director of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science (AIMOS), with a diverse set of expertise across the health, research, education and not-for-profit sectors.

Committee members

Dr Momina Allahwala, South Australian Adult Medicine Division Representative

Dr Georgia Buddle, Aotearoa New Zealand Representative

Dr David Carroll, Northern Territory Representative

Dr Nathaniel Carter, Māori Representative

Dr James Chen, Western Australian Representative

Dr Cassandra Cooke, Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Representative

Dr Ashok Doraiswamy, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine Representative

Dr Amanda Goh, Queensland Representative

Dr Ahmed Hussain, Australian Capital Territory Representative

Dr Jasvin Josen, Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Representative

Dr Shane McKenna, Victorian Representative

Dr Ahthaven Narendren, Victorian Representative 

Dr Emily Rice, Western Australian Representative  

Dr Indumathi Singh, International Medical Graduate Representative 

Dr Pallavi Thite, Queensland Representative

Dr Virginia Wong, New South Wales Representative