Chair
Dr Brian Bowring (MBBS FRACGP Dip RACOG FACRRM) has been a rural General Practitioner for more than 24 years in George Town, Tasmania, a small industrial rural community with a 15-bed acute care hospital, located about one hour north of Launceston. He has been Chair of GP North (the Division of General Practice, Northern Tasmania), Chair of Rural Workforce Support Tasmania and the Tasmanian representative on the Australian Rural Workforce Agencies Group.
Aside from his duties as the Chair of the Rural Health Education Foundation, he is also past Chair and current Treasurer of General Practice Training Tasmania, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Tasmania Discipline of General Practice. He has recently been appointed to the Medical Council of Tasmania.
Deputy Chair
Dr David Rosenthal (MBBS D.Obst. RCOG Dip.RANZCOG FAMA FACRRM) has practised as a rural general 
practitioner for 30 years in his home town of Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia.
He has been active in procedural practice in anaesthetics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and surgery. He has for twenty-five years, been a G.P. examiner for the Diploma in Obstetrics awarded by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
His interests outside clinical medicine include medical politics, medical policy development, and medical education. He holds positions on a number of Boards of Management and was founding president of the Rural Doctors Association of South Australia, and is a past president of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia.
He manages the workforce program of the Riverland Division of General Practice, and chairs the Riverland Medical Workforce Advisory Group. Dr Rosenthal chaired the Board of the Rural Health Education Foundation from 1995 until October 2002.
Directors
Ms Fay Holthuyzen (B Commerce) was until Jan 2008 Deputy Secretary in the Department
of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and the most senior officer directly responsible for advising the Government on broadcasting, telecommunications policies and programs, IT, radiocommunications and postal policies. She held this position since 2000. Fay has extensive experience in representing Australia in the international arena. Fay was Chair of the Department’s Audit, Evaluation and Review Committee from 2002 to 2008.
Prior to this Fay was Deputy CEO of the National Office for the Information Economy from 1998 to 2000. She previously headed the Telecommunications Division in the Department and held a range of executive positions in the Department. Previous responsibilities included senior executive roles in the Transport portfolio providing advice on land transport issues including road policies and programs and rail policies. Fay spent the first years of her Government career until 1983 in the Treasury.
Since retiring from the Australian Public Service, Fay has undertaken consultancy work in communications policy and government relations.
Dr Nigel Humphreys (BSc MB ChB FACRRM) is a General Practitioner. He had his own rural General 
Practice in Batemans Bay (NSW south coast) for twenty years. He was the founding Executive Director of the South East NSW Division of General Practice, and was active in the formation and co-ordination of NSW Rural Divisions, Australian Rural Divisions, ANSWD and the Australian Divisions of General Practice. He was a Foundation Member of the NSW Rural Doctors Association, the Rural Doctors Association of Australia, and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. He was also a GP Surveyor for accrediting General Practices with AGPAL.
He now practices in Bonnells Bay NSW, a small semi-rural community without a local hospital about 45 minutes from Newcastle. He is also a Clinical Director of GP Access After Hours, responsible for service quality for about 240 GPs performing around 50,000 after hours consultations a year in the Newcastle area.
Associate Professor Sabina Knight (RN Master of Tropical Health FRCNA) is a remote 
area nurse and Associate Professor in Remote Health Practice and Remote Health Management at the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs.
She has been actively involved in the Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANA) since its inception in 1983. She has also been the Chair of the National Rural Health Alliance. Her career has focused on remote, isolated and rural health, in particular Aboriginal primary health care.
Sabina has been awarded the Centenary Medal, the Louis Ariotti Award for excellence and leadership in rural health, and the CRANA Aurora Award for leadership and outstanding contribution to remote health. She is a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and the Royal College of Nursing Australia, a member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Regional Women’s Advisory Council and the Northern Territory Health Minister’s Advisory Council.
Sabina has worked and travelled extensively in remote and isolated Australia and neighbouring regions. She currently chairs the CARPA (Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association) Standard Treatment Manual and CRANA CPM (Clinical Procedures Manual) editorial committees, and was appointed to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission in February 2008. She participated in the Australia 2020 Summit in Canberra in April 2008 as part of the long-term national health strategy group. 
Ms Margaret Norington (BA, M Ed) was until March 2004 the Assistant Secretary, Health and Community Strategies Branch, in the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing in Canberra.
In this position, she had responsibility for the leadership and management of the Branch delivering on a range of clinical, population, social and substance use health policies, strategies, and programs relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Margaret worked in the Australian Government Department of Health from 1992, in positions in General Practice Branch, the Office of NHMRC and in the Department’s Executive Unit. In 1997/98 she was responsible for the secretariat supporting the Ministerial Review of General Practice Education and Training.
Prior to joining the Department, Margaret worked in state health in services policy and planning, and in organisation development, and as a practitioner (psychologist) in health and education in the ACT, NSW, SA and the UK.
Since retiring from the Australian Public Service, she has worked in health and family and community-related areas as a policy and services planning consultant, undertaking evaluations, preparing reports and facilitating conferences, workshops and groups.
Ms Jane Paterson was, until January 2010, a senior manager at Merck Sharp & Dohme, currently responsible for 
Corporate & External Affairs. She joined the company in 1993 and held a diverse range of roles in New Zealand and Australia including Marketing Manager, Commercial Manager, Clinical Research Manager and Regional Business Manager.
Jane’s professional interest is in building and protecting corporate (and product) brands. This includes correct positioning of the brand, building the brand through clear strategies and aligned programs, and issues management to protect the brand.
Jane has a strong interest in the delivery of healthcare services to disadvantaged communities. She was the Merck Sharp & Dohme representative for the Collaboration for Health in PNG, a public-private partnership established in 2003 to build healthcare capacity to address the HIV epidemic in PNG.
Jane originally qualified as a pharmacist and then completed a Master in Business Administration to broaden her commercial skills and a post-graduate Diploma in Public Health to further her understanding in public health policy.
Prior to joining Merck Sharp & Dohme Jane worked for the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand and, briefly, as a retail pharmacist.
Professor Paul Worley (MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FACRRM, DRANZCOG) was in solo rural general practice at Lameroo, in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, and then moved to a group rural practice at Clare, a wine growing area in the mid north of the State.
In 1992 he was elected President of the Rural Doctors Association of South Australia. In 1994 he took up an appointment as Senior Lecturer in Rural Health at Flinders University of South Australia.
As well as maintaining an active clinical workload, he has been responsible for coordinating the rapid expansion of Flinders University’s rural education programs in undergraduate and postgraduate rural practice.
In 2001, he was appointed Professor and Director for the Flinders University Rural Clinical School and Editor-in-Chief of Rural and Remote Health, the International Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy. In May 2007, Professor Worley was appointed Dean of the Flinders University School of Medicine.