Executive Council
President: William Heddle
William Heddle is a cardiologist/electrophysiologist based in Adelaide. As well as working in private practice, he is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist at Flinders Medical Centre and Senior Lecturer in Medicine at Flinders University of South Australia. Dr Heddle has been on the Executive of the Australian Medical Association (SA) for the past decade, was AMA (SA) President from 2003 to 2005 and from 2004 has been the Physician Craft Group representative on the AMA Federal Council. Since 2003 he has been an elected member of the SA State Committee of the RACP.
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Vice-President: John Best AO
Jack Best is a former President of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a member of the RACP Council from 1993-1996. He was Deputy Secretary General of the Australian Medical Association from 1979-1984; Chair, Strategic Research Development Committee, NHMRC from 1996-2003 and Program Adviser, Department of Human Services Victoria from 2003-2005. He is currently a health consultant and a part-time Director of Medical Services at three rural hospitals in Victoria. Dr Best is a Fellow of the Australian Medical Association.
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Treasurer: Andrew Nunn
Andrew Nunn is a Rehabilitation Physician working as a consultant in the Victorian Spinal Cord Service, private practice and rural clinics. Dr Nunn has a strong interest in the application of technology in ehealth, patient monitoring and assistive and therapeutic devices. He has had administrative roles in Alfred Health Care Group, including Head of Nonacute Business Unit and Chief Clinical Advisor Inner and Eastern Healthcare network. He has also enjoyed a long association with both Monash and Melbourne Universities in engineering and medicine through teaching and research.
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Councillors:
Paul Bauert OAM, Paediatrician, NT
Director of Paediatrics at Royal Darwin Hospital; visiting Paediatrician to Katherine, Ngukurr, Bulman, Minyerri, Borroloola and Bachelor. President of AMANT and a Federal AMA Executive Councillor. Member of the RACP Expert Advisory Group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
Gerard Carroll AM, Cardiologist, NSW
Principal of Riverina Cardiology in Wagga Wagga.
Rick McLean, Consultant Physician and Nuclear Medicine Physician, VIC
Rick McLean is a consultant physician in general medicine and nuclear medicine in Wangaratta, and provides a visiting outreach service to Echuca.
Greg Rowell, Paediatrician, NSW
Richard Whiting, Geriatrician, VIC