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Keynote Presenters
Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is a General Medical Practitioner
in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs where he has practised for
over 17 years. He completed a successful tenure as the 19th national
President of the AMA in 2007 following two years as national vice
president and two years as state President . He championed the
cause of the “public health” without losing site of
his key constituency – the medical profession.
He achieved significant change leveraging the vast array of talent
and local knowledge of his members. He engaged the electronic
and written media and the attendant public scrutiny with consummate
media skills and lobbied hard whilst establishing good working
relationships with the federal, state and territory departments
of health, health ministers, opposition spokesmen and other health
and welfare groups. He is currently working with the National
e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) appraising the clinical
health professional community of the benefits of vital role of
IT in healthcare.
Internationally, he is the Chair of the World Medical Association
Finance and Planning Committee. In February 2008 he was appointed
a Commissioner to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission.
Mukesh is married with three boys. His personal interests include
travel, film, cricket, cycling and cookery.
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Professor Simon Willcock
A/Prof Simon Willcock, Chair of General Practice Education and Training (GPET), is interested in the area of doctor’s health and his PhD thesis looked at the relationship between environmental stress, personal characteristics and performance among recent medical graduates.
He is director of Australia’s largest medical defence organisation, Avant; and of the NSW prevocational training organisation, IMET.
Simon is past president of the NSW Doctors’ Health Advisory Service and past Chair of the Australasian Doctors’ Health Interest Group.
He currently practises at Hornsby and Brooklyn, and works within the Discipline of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney.
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Dr
Mukesh Haikerwal