Our board

Dr Michael Bonning
Deputy Chair
Michael is a GP with an interest in Indigenous health, clinical governance and wilderness medicine. He has active research areas in health workforce and training, doctors' health and measuring health outcomes. He has a background in health advocacy and is currently a director of the AMA (NSW) and is a former director of beyondblue, the Federal AMA and a past president of the Australian Medical Students' Association.

Ms Megan Cahill
Director
Ms Megan Cahill is the CEO of the ACT Primary Health Network. As former CEO of General Practice Education and Training (GPET), she has experience in delivery of the Australian General Practice Training program, and being responsible for the transition of GP training to the Commonwealth Department of Health she is cognisant of the challenges in the transition to college-led training. Ms Cahill has been a member of the RACGP Expert Committee – Pre Fellowship and CEO of the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria (RWAV), the latter having responsibility for managing the training of rural generalists. Megan is a member of the National Advisory Group for the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) and a Director of the National Rural Health Alliance.

Adj Prof Lyn Fragar AO
Director
Adjunct Prof Lyn Fragar AO is a Public Health Physician, she is Adjunct A/Prof at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Prof at the University of Notre Dame. She has previously been the Chair of the Hunter New England LHD, Director of the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety and employed as the Area Medical Superintendent overseeing six hospitals in the northwest region. Lyn has also spent considerable time working in Papua New Guinea. In 2002 she received an Officer of the Order of Australia for pioneering service to rural health care and farm safety issues, Rotary International Award for Vocational Excellence in 2002 and the Australian Medical Association award for ‘The best individual contribution to health care in Australia in 1999’.

Dr Ian Kamerman
Chair
Dr Ian Kamerman has been a rural GP supervisor for over 20 years. He is the Chair of GP Synergy, and is a member of the Board of Hunter New England Local Health District, and the Australian Medical Association (NSW) Council. He is currently chair of ACRRM's Professional Development Committee and NSW PESCI panel. He is an enthusiastic supervisor with an interest in training within a patient centred medical home model and addiction medicine.

Dr Elizabeth Marles
Director
Dr Marles is the Director of the Hornsby - Brooklyn GP Unit and is particularly interested in medical education and Aboriginal health. Liz has previously been a lecturer at the university of Sydney and is a past President of the RACGP. Liz is also a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and Chair of Therapeutic Guidelines

Dr Elizabeth McEntyre
Director
Dr Elizabeth McEntyre is a Worimi and Wonnarua woman through bloodlines and her Country spans Port Stephens, the Barrington Tops, the Great Lakes and the Hunter Valley of NSW. She has extensive experience in Government and the Aboriginal Community-led sector providing primary health and wellbeing and business services to Aboriginal peoples and communities in NSW. Elizabeth is an accredited mental health social worker, the Aboriginal Official Visitor of prisons state-wide with the NSW Inspector of Custodial Services, and a member of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal conducting civil and forensic hearings. In addition to this work, Elizabeth advises a number of Universities, professional associations and committees, and serves as a Board Member with Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network and Hunter Local Land Services.

Dr Sandra Mendel
Director
Dr Sandra Mendel holds fellowship of both the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and the Royal Australian College of General Practice, and has attained a Masters of Medical Education. She has practised as a rural generalist for more than 25 years in Orange NSW, where she co-owns a practice. Sandra has been heavily involved in GP training through senior medical educator positions in regional training organisations, as the ACRRM Director of Training, Senior Lecturer in Rural Health with Western Sydney University, and currently as the Year 2 Convenor at Charles Sturt University’s School of Rural Medicine. She is also the former Chair of the Central West Medical Association and past Chair and Director of the NSW Central West Division of General Practice.

Prof Di O'Halloran AO
Director
Diana O’Halloran AO is currently the Chair of WentWest Ltd – the Western Sydney PHN, and a Conjoint Professor in the Department of General Practice, Western Sydney University. Diana’s major current involvements are in Primary Health Care policy, strategy and system reform. Past experience includes working as a medical educator in Western Sydney and rural regions and completion of a Masters Degree in Health Professional Education. As a past RACGP Curriculum Committee member Di has been involved in educational policy and curriculum development, and as Chair of the RACGP Education Standing Committee had oversight of RACGP educational responsibilities. She has also chaired RACGP Health System Reform Presidential Task Forces, and is a past Board member of RACGP and GPET.

Mr Damon Rees
Director
Damon has been the CEO of Service NSW since 2017.
Damon was previously the NSW Government’s first Chief Information & Digital Officer (GCIDO) and Deputy Secretary of ICT & Digital Government within the Department of Finance, Services & Innovation.
Prior to this, Damon was the Chief Digital Officer at Macquarie Bank, having earlier served as the Chief Technology Officer and interim Chief Information Officer at Woolworths, and as Westpac’s Head of Integrated Delivery.