Dr Ella Smalley

Dr Ella Smalley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow whose research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying pulmonary fibrosis. Her work investigates macrophage-epithelial cell interactions, genetic contributions to lung disease and development of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived models to study disease pathogenesis.

Ella is committed to supporting early-career researchers, fostering collaborative scientific communities and promoting wellbeing in academia. Her work integrates discovery science with a strong commitment to advocacy, mentorship and creating positive change in the research sector.

Professor James McMahon

Professor James McMahon is the Chief Research and Innovation Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and an Infectious Diseases physician at the Royal Melbourne and Alfred Hospitals.

He is the current President for Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine, ASHM. His research interests include clinical trials focused on HIV Cure and antiretroviral therapy and strategies to improve immunity to COVID-19 in immunocompromised hosts.

Dr Ranjana Srivastava OAM

Dr Ranjana Srivastava OAM, is an oncologist, Fulbright scholar and award-winning writer. She is the recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to the field of doctor-patient communication and a 2004 Australian-American Fulbright Award to gain an ethics fellowship at the University of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

In 2020, Ranjana received a second prestigious Fulbright award and the John F Kennedy Merit Award to obtain a Master in Public Administration at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Educated in India, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, Ranjana graduated from Monash University with a first-class honours degree and has been awarded several awards in medicine.

She has since worked in the public hospital system of Victoria and specialises in geriatric oncology, the holistic care of elderly patients with cancer. She has a keen interest in serving patients from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.

Ranjana is an award-winning writer for The Guardian newspaper, where she writes on the intersection of medicine, ethics and humanity. She is the winner of the 2025 Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist, the winner of an international award for writing with context and clarity and a two-time finalist for the Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism.

In 2014 Ranjana was recognised by Monash University as the Distinguished Alumni of the Year and later appointed a Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Ranjana was included in Westpac's 100 Influential Women of 2015.

She has published multiple books, including:

• Tell Me the Truth: Conversations with My Patients about Life and Death, which was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
• Dying for a Chat: The Communication Breakdown between Doctors and Patients won the Human Rights Literature Prize.
• Her two books on navigating cancer; A Cancer Companion and After Cancer: A Guide to Living Well
• What It Takes To Be A Doctor: An Insider's Guide, finalist in the Australian Career Book Awards.
• A Better Death: Conversations about the Art of Living and Dying Well
• Every Word Matters: Writing to Engage the Public.

Associate Professor Amy Peacock

Amy Peacock is an Associate Professor, National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow and Deputy Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW. She is also Program Lead for Drug Trends, a national monitoring system identifying trends in illicit drug use, markets and harms that is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

Professor Ian Anderson

Dr Lloyd Nash

Dr Lloyd Nash is a General & Acute Care Physician and Head of Department of Medicine at the Albany Hospital in Western Australia.

He is Network co-DPE for the WACHS Physician Training Network and led the establishment of the WA Rural Physician Training Pathway.

Dr Nash has previously been a Director of RACP, Global Health Alliance Australia and Global Ideas.

Dr Simone Ardern-Holmes

Associate Professor Nicole Hancock

Associate Professor Nicole Hancock is a General Physician who has worked across three Australian states in General Medicine Director and Deputy Director roles. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in General and Acute Care Medicine education, training and leadership, with a particular passion for supporting trainees on their individual training journeys. 

Nicole is an elected Board Director of the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ), where she values the opportunity to represent Fellows and trainees at a national level. 

In June 2025, Nicole was a successful recipient of a Commonwealth Government Flexible Approach to Training in Expanded Settings (FATES) grant. This funding led to the establishment of GenMed Horizons, Nicole’s current passion project, focused on strengthening the visibility, distribution and accessibility of General Medicine across Australia. 

Dr Matt Wheeler

Dr Matt Wheeler is the Chair of the Maori Health Committee.  

He is a physician and haematologist and has held national and local leadership roles in both mainstream and indigenous health. 

Dr Josh Agnew

Dr Josh Agnew is a paediatrician with interests in Māori and Pacific Health, cardiology, equity, simulation and research. Josh is a proud Cook Islander, and his family are from Rarotonga.

He works at Tauranga Hospital (on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa), holds a number of equity roles for Health New Zealand, co-chairs the RACP Pacific Physicians membership advisory group and works for both the heart foundation and Pūtahi Manawa.

Dr Owen Bradfield

Dr Owen Bradfield is a dual-qualified medical practitioner and health lawyer, and currently the Chief Medical Officer and Medicolegal Lead at the Medical Indemnity Protection Society.

He has 15 years’ experience in the medical indemnity insurance industry, where he has advised and represented doctors in a range of medico-legal disputes, including civil claims, regulatory complaints, employment disputes, coronial inquests and Medicare investigations.

Owen is also a health law researcher at the Law and Public Health Unit at the University of Melbourne, Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Ethics Committee, and a member of the Australian Government Virtual Care and Telehealth Expert Advisory Group.

Associate Professor Heinrich Weber

Associate Professor Heinrich C. Weber (MBChB, MMed (Paed), FCPaed (SA), FRACP, MPH, FThor Soc) is a Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatrics with the THS - North West and Associate Professor of Paediatrics at UTAS.

He trained in South Africa, where he completed specialist qualifications in Paediatrics, Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, before moving to Tasmania in 2010.

Associate Professor Weber is a paediatrician with expertise in childhood respiratory and allergic conditions. He has a special interest in research, medical education, and rural child health. He is an active contributor to specialist training and mentoring within paediatrics.

Associate Professor Andrew Black

Andrew is an interventional cardiologist at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. His clinical and research work focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention and improving the delivery and outcomes of cardiovascular care across Tasmania (with a focus on ACS and STEMI). He is also actively involved in teaching and training.

Associate Professor Roland McCallum

Associate Professor Roland McCallum graduated from the University of Glasgow and completed basic physician training in the Western Infirmary. He was awarded a postgraduate MD with a thesis investigating the vascular effects of Growth Hormone replacement in hypopituitary patients.

He became a Staff Specialist in Endocrinology at the Royal Hobart Hospital in 2007 and is a VMO at Hobart Private and Calvary Hospitals.

In early 2024 he founded Brilliant Being; multidisciplinary rooms comprising endocrinologists, GPs, psychologists, dietitian, nurse, diabetes educator and exercise physiologists.

Associate Professor David Sullivan

Associate Professor David Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW.

Associate Professor Sullivan is a physician and chemical pathologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown NSW. This includes conjoint appointment as Clinical Associate Professor, Sydney Central Clinical School. He has a long-term interest in lipid metabolism with particular emphasis on the dietary component of gene – environment interactions contributing to cardiovascular disease. He has been involved in the early use of most lipid-lowering interventions and has a particular interest in nutritional principles. His other main interest is the improvement of detection and management of inherited dyslipidaemia and associated increase in cardiovascular risk, such as occurs in Familial Hypercholesterolaemia and elevation of Lipoprotein (a) levels.

Associate Professor Sullivan has experience in several international clinical posts, including World Health Organization (WHO) Fellowship at the MRC Lipoprotein Unit, Royal Postgraduate School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London and co-ordination of international clinical studies from the WHO reference lipid laboratory in Wageningen, Netherlands. He has served on numerous clinical committees including the management committees of the LIPID and FIELD trials. Current research interests are focussed on biomarkers and post-prandial metabolism.

Dr Gauri Gogna

Dr Gogna completed her medical training in Dublin, Ireland attaining her medical degree with honours in 2009. She then completed her FRACP/FAChPM training in palliative care medicine in 2018 in Queensland. She works in the private sector and is also a senior lecturer with the University of Queensland.

She is the president of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine with the RACP and has been on the committee since 2016.

Finally, she is a very proud mother of a 9-year-old girl.

Professor Jaquelyne Hughes

Jaqui Hughes is Wagadagam and Panay of Mabuyag Island of Torres Strait. She lives in Larrakia Country, and at Flinders University is the Research Group lead of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Advancement Program.

Jaqui undertook advanced training in nephrology in the East Coast Renal Training Program (NSW) and qualified as FRACP and nephrologist in 2007.

Jaqui's leadership as Physician has included: membership of the RACP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee, Clinical Supervisor of advanced training and advanced trainee projects, trainee involved research with publication, lecturing for basic physician trainees, Physician Examination, and direct clinical care. Hughes is a health researcher, and leader of health system improvements for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Prof Hughes is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Matthew Flinders Professor (Medical Education). She was awarded the Arthur E Mills Memorial Medal in 2025, delivering the Oration titled “Culture Practiced in Medicine.

Dr Sarah Arachchi

Sarah is a Paediatrician, mum to two boys, writer, speaker and presenter on abc tv news breakfast on the health segment, author of Brown. Female. Doctor. A Memoir published by Monash University Publishing and an editor of The Art Of Paediatric Medicine: Clinical Pearls from Experienced Clinicians published by Springer.

She is also a FIGS Ambassador and Deputy Chair of AMA Women in Medicine Committee of AMA Victoria and has co-organised Vic Feat for RACP for a number of years.

You can follow her on @kidsdoctorsarah.

Dr Lee-Anne Gray

Lee-Anne is a wife, mum to seven wonderful children, and a dual clinical and laboratory haematology trainee, currently completing her first year of advanced training in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Raised on a farm in rural Western Australia, she developed a strong work ethic early in life. Becoming a mum as a teenager ignited a determination in her to provide the best future for her son. She went on to complete a Bachelor of Naturopathy before graduating in postgraduate medicine from the University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, in 2016.

Since then, she has worked across Australia and New Zealand in tertiary, rural and remote settings. Along the way, she has held many junior doctor committee and advocacy roles, including playing an instrumental role in developing and implementing a JMO mentoring program in a regional hospital. She is currently a member of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (HSANZ) Early Career Committee.

Grounded in her Catholic faith and with the exceptional support of her Kiwi husband they are intentional about providing meaningful family time amid the demands of work and study. With seven children, dual specialty training and a healthy sense of adventure, she certainly hasn't been bored in years.

Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu

A/Prof Kanhutu is the Dean of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians with a broad portfolio encompassing workforce planning and data, policy and advocacy, research, philanthropy and global health. A general infectious diseases physician, she continues to provide clinical care to patients at Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). A/Prof Kudzai takes a keen interest in social justice and has received national award recognition for her contribution to refugee care and digital health initiatives.

She has a particular interest in technical solutions to health problems from her experiences of health innovation in her birth country Zimbabwe and working in rural and regional Australia.

Dr Julian Kelly

Dr Julian Kelly is a general paediatrician and physician, and President-elect of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), with 25 years of clinical experience.

Julian has worked as a practising clinician throughout this time, while also becoming closely involved in workforce and industrial relations issues affecting doctors — including pay, conditions, and staffing levels in the health sector. This has included serving as an Australian Medical Association (AMA) representative and as Chair of the Medical Staff Association at his tertiary hospital, advocating directly for the interests and working conditions of clinicians. He has also served on multiple senior hospital committees, including patient safety, morbidity and mortality, and executive medical appointment committees.

Julian has also worked internationally on hospital systems and guidelines, advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on hospital services in the Pacific and in China.

As President-elect of the RACP, he brings this mix of clinical work, industrial relations experience, and international hospital systems work to the role, with a focus on the needs of physicians and paediatricians and the training of future doctors.

Julian continues to work as a general paediatrician alongside these other responsibilities both in public and private practice.

Adjunct Professor Susan Pascoe AM

Susan Pascoe is Adjunct Professor the University of Western Australia and Australian Catholic University. Prof Pascoe is a Trustee of St John of God Health and a Board Member of Mercy Health. She chairs the Community Directors Council and chaired the Australian Council for International Development from 2017 – 26 and the Australian National Commission for UNESCO 2006 – 08.

She was inaugural Commissioner for the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), 2012 - 2017. Prior to this appointment, Prof Pascoe was Commissioner of the State Services Authority in Victoria, the body which oversaw good governance and conduct of individuals and entities in the public service.

She was appointed in 2009 as one of three Commissioners to the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday Bushfires, after the loss of 173 lives and damage to flora, fauna and property.