About us
Who we are
Our Community
“GPSA is a passionate community supported by a dedicated team, which is in turn guided by an experienced Board of Directors elected by and from the community.”
The GPSA community is as diverse and exciting as the medical specialty it is responsible for perpetuating.
The medical professionals and administrators who make up almost 10,000 GPSA members are all involved in, or aspiring to contribute to, the supervision of tomorrow’s GPs and RGs. This supervising community is spread across Australia, both in the traditional general practice setting and, more frequently now, outside the community clinic in contexts including public hospitals, state healthcare clinics, ACCHOs, AMSs, RFDS and the ADF, among others.
GPSA not only supports this community – GPSA is this community.
By uniting as a community of practice, this community has the potential to create unprecedented change – drawing strength from connection to each other and developing a unified voice transcending geographical fragmentation.
By contributing your voice to GPSA’s regular discussions with Commonwealth and sector stakeholders, by lending your insights and expertise to our research-backed policy statements and best practice educational resources, you can make a real difference.
Our Team
As a GPSA member, you are part of a unique community supported by a dedicated team. Our work focuses on four key pillars:
- Education
- Research and Policy
- Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement
- Member Services
Our goal is to unite and empower our members, fostering a quality teaching and learning culture across the educational spectrum. We ensure effective communication channels to keep our work aligned with your needs and priorities.
OUR WORKER BEES
BA(Hons), MBA(Int), MComm
Carla is a strategist and communications professional whose corporate and international marketing experience is underpinned by more than a quarter of a century as a CEO. Carla’s enthusiasm for driving solutions for the GPSA community is matched only by her passion for education and research, her devotion to her Groodle (Charlie Brown) and her gratitude for her awesome team.
Chief Operations Officer
Director of Research & Policy
Education Manager
Communications & Marketing Manager
Administration Manager
Practice Manager Lead
Operations Manager
Education Associate
Administration Officer
Administration Officer
Our Board
The GPSA Board is comprised of a diverse group of professionals with extensive experience in general practice and supervision. Each of our Directors is passionate about supporting those dedicated to providing high-quality supervision for tomorrow’s GPs.
OUR DIRECTORS
MBBS, MRCGP, FRACGP, DFSRH, DRCOG, DCH SCCA Advanced Certificate of Dermoscopy
Dr Srishti Dutta is a GP with over a decade of clinical and non-clinical experience, having worked across 3 continents and observed a range of health systems closely.
Srishti has attained fellowship as a GP both in Australia in the UK, is a GP supervisor and ECT visitor, an Examiner for the RACGP, a Medical Facilitator at the Black Dog Institute, and a GP Liaison Officer (GPLO) as part of the joint initiative between Metro North HHS and Brisbane North PHN: where, in her words, “influencing without power” is a key skill on which she relies.
Srishti has served as GPSA’s Chair since November 2023, being re-elected to this position for a further two years at the 2024 GPTA AGM on 28th November 2024.
MBBS, FRACGP, Clin Dip Pall Med, DCH
Dr Candice Baker obtained fellowship as an Australian General Practitioner in 2015, then as a Canadian Family Physician in 2020.
Outside her time working in Ontario Canada through 2020 and 2021, she has been at the same training practice in regional Victoria for 12 years. It was here she became involved in the supervision of medical students and registrars in an informal capacity before becoming an accredited supervisor early in 2022.
Since then, Candice has been engaged as an RACGP Supervisor Liaison Officer (SLO), gaining a groundswell of support from her colleagues as co-Chair of the national SLO Advisory Council.
CPA, GAICD
Leonie has a great interest in developing the education of Registrars. She is passionate about ensuring Registrars not only receive great clinical training but that they are also prepared to enter the world of General Practice as educated and informed business people.
Leonie has presented to registrars at MCCC, EVGPT and RACGP workshops and has also regularly presented to Practice Managers on issues including the NTCER, recruitment and business development.
B Med. Sc., MBBS (Hons), MPH, D.Adv.Med., FRACGP, FACAsM
Dr Kate Manderson is an experienced GP supervisor and Principal GP of 4 practices in the Shoalhaven, with special interests in Aerospace Medicine, Clinical and Military Medicine, and Women’s Health.
Kate is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) whose governance background includes 5 years as the President and Chair of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM), chairing the ASAM Policy and Advisory Committee, and performing the role of Finance Director for the Shoalhaven Division of General Practice.
MBBS, FRACGP
Nick has been a practising GP since 2001, achieving his specialist Fellowship (FRACGP) in 2007. Since then he has owned and run several successful practices as well as being a supervisor and examiner of RACGP registrars and a supervisor and educator of Flinders and James Cook University Medical Students.
Nick has been active in a number of medical groups and committees.
He is an active business networker outside of medicine and has been a member
of a business referral and networking group in Adelaide for 3 years (President for 18 months of this).
MBBS, FRACGP, GAICD, Cert. Clin. Ed
Frank has been a General Practitioner for 28 years and is a partner in Christies Beach Medical Centre, a privately owned General Practice of over 50 years history.
As our most senior Board member, Frank has given GPSA the benefit of his experience as a highly-regarded supervisor of students, interns, RMOs and GP registrars for over two decades. His passion for GP training and the general practice profession is infectious, as younger members of the Board and his colleagues on the SLO Advisory Council have found.
Frank served as the GPSA Deputy Chair through 2024 and has held previous board positions with the Southern Division of General Practice.
MBChB, FRACGP-RG, FARGP, FACRRM
UK-born Sara has been in Australia since 1995 and is proud to identify as an IMG – a cohort she spends a great deal of her time supporting as the Medical Educator for RVTS Supervisors.
Having developed her passion as a Rural Generalist while working in Tennant Creek NT, Sara chose to ‘Go Rural’: starting in Mudgee as a GP VMO, ED and Obstetrics, then Broken Hill as a Psychiatry Registrar, followed by an Academic post with Sydney University Department of Rural Health, RFDS and in private general practice. Having completed dual fellowship training, she worked as a GP VMO in Wellington NSW followed by solo practice in a small rural town for 10 years.
Sara is committed to supporting doctors working in AMS and in rural and remote locations. She enjoys her clinical work as well as her roles as a remote Supervisor with RVTS, ACRRM and RACGP and as the RVTS ME for Supervisors.
Date reviewed: 05 December 2024