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Ms Pat Anderson

Pat Anderson is the Chair of National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization, which is the peak indigenous Health Organization in Australia. Pat has spoken on issues to the United Nations working group on indigenous peoples. Pat was the CEO of the Danila Dilbas community controlled health service providing comprehensive primary health care to the Darwin and Torres Strait Islander Communities. Pat is an Alyawaare woman and has extensive experience in aII aspects of indigenous health including community development, advocacy, policy formation and research ethics. She is also a prolific writer and has had many essays, papers and articles published. The title of her talk will be "The emotional and social wellbeing of the AustraIian Nation". Pat's address to the Conference will emphasise the emotional and social wellbeing of our nation and its intimate connection to our indigenous population. There is a growing awareness about the health status of Australia's indigenous peoples and Pat will challenge the Conference to connect the health status of indigenous people around the world to the wellbeing of all peoples.

Mr James Fitzpatrick

Medical student and Young Australian of the Year 2001

James Fitzpatrick is a medical student from Western Australia. He has a rural background and for the past three years has represented students in all health disciplines with an interest in rural Australia through the SPINRPHEX Rural Health Club. He also represented the National Rural Health Network at the 4th World Rural Health Conference in Canada in August 2000. Prior to enrolling as a medical student at the University of Western Australia he completed a Science degree and served for a year in the Australian Army.

Dr Michael Boland MICGP, FRCGP

President, World Organization of Family Doctors

Michael Boland is an Irish family doctor. He is currently the Director of the Postgraduate Resource Centre of the Irish College of General Practitioners. The Centre co-ordinates the postgraduate education, quality assurance and research activities of the College.

He qualified in medicine at University College, Dublin in 1972 and completed general practice training at Cork in 1975. For 22 years he worked as a family doctor in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland in a practice of four doctors serving a semi-rural community of 7,500 people.

He was involved in the foundation of Irish College of General Practitioners. Dr Boland is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), UK and was the founding Irish member of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice and a council member for 20 years.

Dr Florence Manguyu

Former President of the Medical Women's International Association.

Dr. Manguyu is a consultant paediatrician in clinical practice in Kenya. She is former president of the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA) and is an advocate for the health and welfare of women and children both in her home country and internationally She chaired the NCO Forum of the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994 and is a member of several management boards at local and international levels.

Dr Bruce Chater

Convener, WHO-Wonca Co-Sponsored Consultation "Health for all Rural People"

Dr Bruce Chater has been a Rural Doctor in Theodore for 21 years. His practice includes general practice and hospital practice as Medical Superintendent of the Theodore Hospital.

Bruce was the founding convenor of both the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland and the Rural Doctors Association of Australia. He was Faculty of Rural Medicine representative on RACGP College Council from 1994 -1996 and is now ACRRM Vice-president.

He has a long-term interest in improving education for Rural Medicine. He was instrumental in the planning for the first International Conference on Rural Medicine in Shanghai in 1996. He has chaired the Recommendation session at each subsequent conference. He was editor of the WONCA Policy on Rural Practice and Rural Health which brought together many of these recommendations. He has a keen interest in maintaining the relevance of this document through the input of each rural conference. He is on the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice and is currently the ACRRM representative on WONCA Council.

He has a very supportive wife Anne and four boys, Adam, Ben, Cameron and Daniel (17,15,13 and 11) all of whom have shared Bruce's passion for the bush.

Professor Roger A. Rosenblatt, MID, MPH

Professor and Vice Chair Department of Family Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine

Dr Rosenblatt has spent much of his personal and professional career working to improve the health of rural populations. After graduating from Harvard University, he moved from Seattle where he completed a family medicine residency and helped to start the new discipline of Family Medicine. He also played a key role in establishing a five-state decentralized medical education program in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Dr. Rosenblatt launched the research effort in Family Medicine at the University of Washington, and founded the WWAMI Rural Research Center. He was elected to the United States Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.

Professor Liam Donaldson, OHP MSc, MID, FRCS(Ed), FFPHM, FRCP, FRCP(Ed), FMedSci

Chief Medical Officer United Kingdom Department of Health

As the U K Government's senior medical adviser, Professor Donaldson has responsibility for policy development and implementation aimed at improving the population's health. He commenced his medical career in surgery before training in public health. He was formerly Director of Public Health for Regional Health Authorities covering the North East and Yorkshire regions of the National Health Service. Later he held the joint role of Director of Public Health and Regional Director of one of the eight regional offices of the National Health Service Executive. His particular experience has been in strategic management and planning, health policy, public health programs, clinical governance, problems of poor professional practice and health services research. He is co-author of a standard textbook of public health and has published widely on health and health service research subjects.

Dr M K Rajakumar, MB BS, AM, FASc, FAFP (Mal), FCFP (S'pore), FHKCFP, FRACGP, FFRACGP, FRCGP (UK) FRCP (Edin)

Past President, Wonca.

Dr Rajakumar is an elder statesman of Wonca and a guiding inspiration for the world rural health movement. Based in Malaysia, he was Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Third World Conference on Rural Health in Kuching. His current offices are the Honorary Medical Adviser, Tung Shin Charity Hospital; External Examiner for the Prince Songkla University, Thailand; and a Member, Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia. Some of his past offices have included Vice President, Academy of Sciences of Malaysia, Chairman of Council, College of General Practitioners of Malaysia and Chairman, Committee of Excellence in Science and Technology, Academy of Sciences in Malaysia.

Dr Helen Caldicott

Founding President of Physicians for Social Responsibility

Dr Caldicott founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1975 before taking up a position as instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She was also on the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston. While living in the US she founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors with a commitment to educating colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war. She helped to start similar organizations in many other countries, and in 1985 the international umbrella group, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize