Dr John Williams is a general practitioner practising in Port Lincoln. In addition to the usual GP duties, John has a special interest in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment. He helps at the Port Lincoln Hospital's emergency department and attends to inpatients.

John graduated from Adelaide University in 1993. This was followed by some time in paediatrics at the Women's and Children's Hospital, obstetrics at Flinders Medical Centre and general practice in rural and city locations. 

He has also spent time in hospitals (plastics and emergency) and general practice in the UK. 

Outside medicine John has studied jazz music at the Elder Conservatorium and continues to perform locally and compose for short films. Family life with his wife and daughter is central to John.

Peter is an accredited vascular and endovascular surgeon. He began consultant practice in Adelaide in 2001 with appointments at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Ashford Hospital, St Andrew's Hospital and Calvary Group of Hospitals. Following the amalgamation of the vascular service at TQEH and the RAH in 2015, Peter is now a Staff Vascular Surgeon at the RAH. He is also a visiting specialist at several regional (Mt Barker, Stirling and Riverland Regional) hospitals. Peter's area of interest include endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, distal bypass grafting for limb salvage, carotid interventions (stenting and endarterectomy) and targeted carotid screening for stroke prevention.

Peter is the President-Elect of the ANZ Society of Vascular Surgery.

Dr Michelle Atchison graduated from the Flinders University Medical School in 1985 and after an intern year at the Royal Adelaide Hospital began psychiatry training at the Repatriation General Hospital. After an aborted attempt at academic psychiatry, she settled into private practice in 1995 with a focus on psychiatric problems arising from traumatic stress. A large proportion of Michelle's patients are war service veterans. Other interests include civil medico-legal work, including criminal injuries compensation and WorkCover.

Michelle also assisted in setting up the Medical Panels for South Australia. She is a foundation member of the new Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry.

Michelle is an accredited College examiner. In recent years she has become active in the politics of psychiatry, and now chairs the SA Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and represents South Australia at the federal College level. She sees her role as promoting private practice interests amid significant public practice changes.

Michelle has completed a Graduate Diploma in Art History and in another life would be consulting in art work for medical rooms – if only she had the time.

Dr Szewczyk is the Chair of AMA(SA) Council.

She is a RANZCOG trainee and a Federal AMA Councillor. Following a term as Chair of the AMA(SA) Doctors in Training (DiTs) Committee, she is Chair of the (federal) AMA Council of Doctors in Training in 2023. 

Dr Szewczyk says she became involved with the AMA because she wanted to advocate for improved conditions for junior doctors, especially prevocational doctors. This includes campaigning for initiatives to improve wellbeing and flexibility in work and training, and more DiT representation on decision-making boards and committees. 

Dr John Williams is a general practitioner practising in Port Lincoln. In addition to the usual GP duties, John has a special interest in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment. He helps at the Port Lincoln Hospital's emergency department and attends to inpatients.

John graduated from Adelaide University in 1993. This was followed by some time in paediatrics at the Women's and Children's Hospital, obstetrics at Flinders Medical Centre and general practice in rural and city locations. 

He has also spent time in hospitals (plastics and emergency) and general practice in the UK. 

Outside medicine John has studied jazz music at the Elder Conservatorium and continues to perform locally and compose for short films. Family life with his wife and daughter is central to John.

Dr Clair Pridmore is a paediatric neurologist, currently employed as a Staff Specialist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH). She did her basic training at the WCH and most of her advanced training overseas, at the Hospitals for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London; the Institute of Child Health, London; and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She feels the clinical and life experience gained working overseas in these centres of excellence, in big cosmopolitan cities, has proved invaluable.

Clair is committed to providing high-quality health services for children and teens in South Australia and has worked hard to improve services for children with neurological disorders. She has a special interest in children and families living with epilepsy and continues to work to improve outcomes for this group of patients.

She is well aware of the inequity existing in the delivery of health services for children in this state and the Northern Territory (NT). Those who live in rural and regional South Australia and NT are clearly disadvantaged, particularly Indigenous children. Clair would value the opportunity to help address this disparity.

Clair has a research interest in the genetics of epilepsy. Her interests outside medicine include music (piano), masters rowing, bushwalking, tennis and bridge.

Doctor Edward (Ted) Mah is the Professor of the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University of SA and Head of Orthopaedics at Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN). He is the Director at North Adelaide Specialist Centre to provide specialised service in Hand and Microsurgery, as well as Elbow and Shoulder reconstruction surgery.

In a career spanning for more than 30 years, Dr Edward (Ted) Mah has worked tirelessly with and for the orthopaedic community both locally and internationally.

Dr Szewczyk is the Chair of AMA(SA) Council.

She is a RANZCOG trainee and a Federal AMA Councillor. Following a term as Chair of the AMA(SA) Doctors in Training (DiTs) Committee, she is Chair of the (federal) AMA Council of Doctors in Training in 2023. 

Dr Szewczyk says she became involved with the AMA because she wanted to advocate for improved conditions for junior doctors, especially prevocational doctors. This includes campaigning for initiatives to improve wellbeing and flexibility in work and training, and more DiT representation on decision-making boards and committees. 

Dr Nimit Singhal is representative for public hospitals on AMA(SA) Council. He is a consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Adelaide, Lyell McEwin and Ashford hospitals, and a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Hia main area of interest is cancer in the elderly.

Nimit is actively involved in clinical research and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He has mentored and supervised oncology trainees through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and has been involved in other college activities. He is also an active member of the Research Ethics Committee.

After graduating as MBBS from the Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University in Madras (Chennai) in 2000, Krish attained Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) and a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) in Anaesthesiology in India in 2005.

Highlights of his career include being awarded the gold medal in the Fellowship in Anaesthesiology (FCPS) and winning the B Braun International Scholarship for Scientific and Academic Excellence in Anaesthesiology, both in 2005; and attaining the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine in 2010, Fellowships of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) in 2009, and the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (FRACMA) and the Australasian College of Health Service Management (FACHSM) in 2019.

The thesis topic for his Master’s in Public Health related to responding to COVID-19 in a quaternary referral centre and the interface with public health. He also has post-graduate qualifications in clinical ultrasound, critical care echo, health service management, health administration and higher education.

Krish joined the full-time staff of the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s intensive care unit in 2010 and was appointed head of the unit in 2020.

Dr. Vikas Jasoria is a specialist general practitioner (GP) based in Adelaide. He trained in the UK at Imperial College in London and is qualified in both medicine and management. He has an international background having been brought up in Hong Kong and with Indian heritage.

Vik is currently director of the Arkaba Medical Centre in Parkside and its related entities Dermadocs Skin Cancer Clinic and Adelaide Health Suites. He is also director of the Hughes Medical Clinic in Unley and Craigmore Family Practice. He is passionate about primary care and the medical profession. He has served on the Adelaide Northern Division of General Practice and on the boards of the Adelaide PHN and Northern Adelaide Medicare Local.

With experience in youth mental health and Aboriginal health, Vik continues to be a coal-face GP serving his community.

Associate Professor William Tam obtained his medical qualifications from the University of Adelaide in 1993, and became a gastroenterologist and Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2000.

His PhD thesis on reflux disease and Barrett’s oesophagus provided opportunities to learn advanced endoscopic techniques in Tokyo and Amsterdam. He consolidated his endoscopic training with a post-doctoral fellowship at the Middlesex Hospital in London in 2003, a position which also entailed honorary lectureship at the University of London.

On his return to Adelaide in 2004, Associate Professor Tam was appointed to key positions at both the Lyell McEwin Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital.

He is currently State Reference Member for the Australian National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, committee member of the Australian Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Association, and is chair-elect of the Australian Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Association. 

He became a state councillor for AMA(SA) in 2012, and also joined the AMA(SA) Executive Board in 2012.

A/Prof Tam is actively involved in clinical research, teaching and endoscopic training and has participated in the World Gastroenterology Organisation sponsored teaching program in Fiji. In 2012, he was awarded honorary professorship at the Beijing PLA General Military Hospital. He is also a past-president of the Australasian Council of Chinese Medical Associations (Australia and New Zealand).

Dr Bridget Sawyer completed her training in general practice in the UK in 1987, after time spent working in rural New Zealand.

She moved to Australia in 1990 taking up a role with the Royal Flying Doctor Service based in Broken Hill, NSW.

After two years of working in a fascinating job and appreciating the Australian bush, she moved to Adelaide, initially working primarily as a GP until establishing her sports medicine practice.

She is a member of SA – Sports Medicine Association and was president from 2011 to 2013.

She has worked with elite athletes in netball and basketball, both domestic and international competition, as well as with the Australian Paralympic Committee.

She was also part of the Australian team for the Rio Paralympics which she found a valuable and rewarding experience.

Her current clinical role is with The International Spine Centre. She continues to work as a GP with a musculoskeletal focus.

Dr Emily Kirkpatrick is an Adelaide-based specialist general practitioner (GP) with additional qualifications in public health, preventative health (skin cancer research and screening), medical education and medical administration. Emily is now the Executive Medical Director of the Calvary Medibank Joint Venture, which has provided care through a NSQHS-accredited virtual hospital to more than 200,000 patients across Australia.

As a former Deputy Chief Public Health Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, COVID Community Commander, and Executive Director of Community and Primary Care Partnerships at South Australia’s Department for Health and Wellbeing, Emily has been a passionate advocate for reform of the Australian health system.

With expertise and significant executive experience in virtual health care systems and clinical governance, she brings to the AMA(SA) Council unique perspectives on whole-of-system and integrated care.

Dr Rajaram Ramadoss is a consultant and deputy director in the intensive care unit at Lyell McEwin Hospital. He is a consultant in intensive care at Calvary North Adelaide and Western hospitals and a clinical senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide.

Dr Chris Moy is a full-time general practitioner working at a large group practice in Parkside. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1991 and he has worked in general practice for over 20 years. His interests include aged care, palliative care and health communication systems.

Chris has served on several aged and palliative care related committees in South Australia including the CNAHS Falls Prevention Steering Committee, the Expert Advisory Panel of the SA Advance Directives Review, the SA Health End of Life Decision Making Project Working Group and the SA Health Resuscitation Planning Advisory Group. He is the current Chair of both the Adelaide PHN Central Adelaide Clinical Council and GP Palliative Shared Care Program Operations Consultative Committee, and he also remains a member of the SA Health End of Life Prescribing Working Group.

On a national level, he represented the AMA on the Telehealth Advisory Group which oversaw the initial implementation of Medicare funded telehealth across Australia. In 2012 he was appointed to the Independent Advisory Committee of the national Patient Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) where he developed an understanding of the serious usability problems that had arisen in the PCEHR. This led to membership of the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) Clinical Usability Program Steering Group which was instrumental in contributing to the repair of the PCEHR, now known as the My Health Record, and later, appointment to the My Health Record Operations Management Committee.

He is currently a Patient Digital Safety Adviser for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and a member of the Privacy and Security Advisory Committee of the newly formed Australian Digital Health Agency.

As well as his involvement on AMA(SA) Council and Board, Chris is a member of the AMA's Federal Council - serving on both the Federal AMA Medical Practice Committee and Ethics and Medico-Legal Committee since 2014, and chairing the latter since 2016.

Andrew is a 30-year veteran of the public health system in South Australia. 

After graduating from the University of Adelaide and completing an internship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), he started basic physician traineeship at TQEH. After research and advanced training at FMC, he worked at Repatriation General Hospital (RGH) in cardiology and general medicine, at FMC and is now at Noarlunga Health Services.

He is an RACP Fellow and has been a member of the RACP state committee in South Australia for several years in various roles. Andrew has found the supervision of trainees from residency to consultant practice to be a particularly rewarding part of his work, as are the relationships he has formed with both patients and colleagues of all crafts for complex chronic disease management. 

Andrew has been a member of the AMA(SA) throughout his career, and believes the AMA is best positioned to influence the delivery of patient care and express the expertise of doctors at both a state and federal level.

Dr Patrick Quinn is a paediatric allergist and clinical immunologist who practises in North Adelaide and Beulah Park.

He is a senior lecturer in the paediatric program for fifth-year MBBS students at the University of Adelaide; a staff specialist in the Department of Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital; and a private consultant allergist and immunologist in Beulah Park.

Patrick is an active member of the Australasian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (ASCIA) and a member of the ASCIA paediatric and immunodeficiency committees.

He is a member of the Transplantation in Primary Immunodeficiency (TAPID) Working Group and the SA Pathology Primary Immunodeficiency Working Group.

Dr Shriram Nath completed his medical training at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India, and went on to advanced training at the Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, India.  

He has a special interest in leukaemia and lymphomas. This led him to Kuwait before he moved to Melbourne in 2004. He completed his haematology training in Melbourne and Adelaide in 2009. 

Dr Nath has worked in the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Alfred Hospital, and as consultant haematologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA Pathology and Adelaide Cancer Centre. 

He now works with Adelaide Haematology at the Ashford Specialist Centre. 

Dr Nath also follows his laboratory haematology interest by working on a sessional basis at Clinpath Laboratories.

Doctor Edward (Ted) Mah is the Professor of the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University of SA and Head of Orthopaedics at Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN). He is the Director at North Adelaide Specialist Centre to provide specialised service in Hand and Microsurgery, as well as Elbow and Shoulder reconstruction surgery.

In a career spanning for more than 30 years, Dr Edward (Ted) Mah has worked tirelessly with and for the orthopaedic community both locally and internationally.

Tarun Bastiampillai studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1996.

He completed psychiatry training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in 2004. He subsequently worked as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, based in London, for two years before returning to South Australia to work at the QEH in 2007.

Since 2010 he has been the Acting Regional Clinical Director of mental health services in the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network and Clinical Director for mental health services in the inner southern region, based at Flinders Medical Centre. 

In 2013 he was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Flinders University School of Medicine, with a specific focus on mental health systems research. His other research interests include e-mental health and psychopharmacology.

Tarun is the treasurer of the SA branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

He advocates for the rights of mental health patients and for designing mental health services to effectively meet their needs. He is particularly interested in understanding the complex interface between healthcare, politics, sociology and economics.

Dr Louis Papilion graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical school and pursued a career in anaesthesia, for which he completed fellowship in 2019. During his training he rotated across all major hospitals in Adelaide.

Louis now has a staff specialist appointment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and is a director associate in private practice. He has a special interest in anaesthesia for upper gastrointestinal surgery, and particularly its use in bariatric surgery. 

He joined Council in 2022 to support advocacy to improve doctors’ conditions and wellbeing and to influence changes in the provision of care to patients in the public and private health systems.

Born, raised and educated in Adelaide, South Australia, Dr Karen Koh attended the University of Adelaide, School of Medicine, graduating in 1995. Thereafter she undertook further training as a medical officer in various departments at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, including working in general medicine, emergency medicine and sexual health. She also was involved in skin research projects at the Flinders University.

Dr Koh was accepted into the specialist dermatology training programme in 2001. During her first year she worked in Darwin, N.T. where her focus included research into fungal infections in Aboriginal communities of the Top End. The findings from this research contributed to changes in the way such infections are treated across Australia in indigenous groups.

After completing her training in Adelaide, and being accepted as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists (ACD) in 2005, Dr Koh commenced private practice. She has served on various committees for the ACD, including trainee doctor national selection, scientific meetings, medical ethics, national examinations and international medical graduate speciality recognition assessment.  She has been the Secretary and the Chairman of the S.A. Faculty of the ACD.

Dr Koh is a visiting dermatologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Women’s & Children’s Hospital, where she supervises doctors training in dermatology. She also participates in medical student teaching for the University of Adelaide and is a senior Clinical Lecturer.   She regularly gives lectures for students for pre-intern preparation and general practitioners about skin conditions.

Aside from her busy practice, Dr Koh is a keen amateur photographer and traveller.

Dr Cathrin Parsch is an emergency physician working as a staff specialist at the Lyell Mc Ewin Hospital and SAAS MedSTAR in SA.  In addition, she also holds the role of a visiting consultant with the Central Australian Medical Retrieval and Coordination Centre (MRaCC) at the Alice Springs Hospital in the Northern Territory.

She graduated in Germany and came to Australia in 1997.  Her special clinical interests include mental health, paediatrics, aboriginal health and point of care ultrasound.  Cathrin has a long-standing involvement in patient safety and clinical governance across her workplaces.  The challenges to provide safe patient care in the current environment led to her interest in becoming a member of the AMA(SA) Council.

Cathrin is a Course Director and member of the Course Development Committee for Advanced Paediatric life Support (APLS) and an instructor for Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) and Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB).

She has a 22-year-old son in Melbourne (of late mostly in lockdown) and a 20-year-old daughter in Sydney.  Unfortunately, Cathrin does not see them often enough now but her horses and dogs keep her entertained.

Dr Hayden Cain is an Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) trainee working in the Riverland.

After growing up in Adelaide Hayden moved to Melbourne to complete his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Honours) and Honours Degree of Bachelor of Medical Science at Monash University. He completed his internship in Echuca before moving to Darwin and then back to Adelaide to pursue a career in orthopaedics.

However, his experiences in Darwin and Echuca ignited a passion for advocacy and a desire to live and work rurally, and he decided to become a rural generalist.

Hayden has become increasingly involved in advocacy roles with a specific focus on doctors in training, rural health, and the progression of doctors in training through their careers. He is the Chair of AMA(SA) Doctors in Training, Chair of the Federal AMA Council of Doctors in Training Prevocational Special Interest Group and member of the National Medical Workforce Strategy Service Registrar Special Interest Group.

Dr Chris Dobbins is a general surgeon who currently works as a staff specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital as well as consulting in Port Augusta and Whyalla Hospital.  He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2000 and completed his fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2012.  He has interests in rural surgery, trauma and emergency surgery and has been heavily involved in the training of junior surgeons through various roles within General Surgeons Australia and RACS.

Associate Professor Michael Goggin has been working in the field of ophthalmology since 1984, training in Ireland and Australia. He is a consultant and supervisor of training for RANZCO accredited ophthalmology trainees at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide and an Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide.  He has a sub-specialty interest in cataract and refractive surgery and is an authority on the analysis and surgical management of astigmatism. He has a private cataract and refractive practice in Ashford.  He has over 90 peer reviewed publications. His research work in laser vision correction earned him the degree of Master of Surgery at the University of Adelaide. He runs a Fellowship in Cataract and Refractive Surgery.  He has been admitted as a Charter Fellow to The World College of Refractive Surgery & Visual Sciences in recognition of his experience and services to refractive surgery over decades.  In January 2024 he was appointed co-Editor in Chief, of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, . He had served as a Section Editor in this journal for 11 years.

Dr Clair Pridmore is a paediatric neurologist, currently employed as a Staff Specialist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH). She did her basic training at the WCH and most of her advanced training overseas, at the Hospitals for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London; the Institute of Child Health, London; and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She feels the clinical and life experience gained working overseas in these centres of excellence, in big cosmopolitan cities, has proved invaluable.

Clair is committed to providing high-quality health services for children and teens in South Australia and has worked hard to improve services for children with neurological disorders. She has a special interest in children and families living with epilepsy and continues to work to improve outcomes for this group of patients.

She is well aware of the inequity existing in the delivery of health services for children in this state and the Northern Territory (NT). Those who live in rural and regional South Australia and NT are clearly disadvantaged, particularly Indigenous children. Clair would value the opportunity to help address this disparity.

Clair has a research interest in the genetics of epilepsy. Her interests outside medicine include music (piano), masters rowing, bushwalking, tennis and bridge.

Dr Richard Try is a General Practitioner and clinic owner working in Mount Gambier in the Lower SE. He has a special interest in Skin Cancer and Dermatology.

Richard graduated from University of Leicester Medical School in the UK in 1997 and qualified as a GP in 2002.  He was a partner in a small group practice in Gosport, Hampshire, UK before moving to Australia with his wife and young son in 2008.

After working in Millicent, including GP hospital work, he moved to Mount Gambier in 2011 before opening his own clinic in 2016.

His wife owns a shop in the town and their son is now a teenager. Outside interests include music and martial arts and is an active member of the local Kung Fu school.