Board

Diane Walsh is the Consumer nominee to the GPNNT Board, and served on the Top End Division of General Practice Board from 2004 - 2008, including holding the Chair's position for the final year. Diane is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is an Alternate Director of the National Prescribing Service and a Governing Committee member of Consumers Health Forum. She is a Ministerial appointment to the Therapeutic Goods Committee of the TGA and the National Medicines Policy Committee. Her principle health consumer roles are chairing the NPS Community Quality Use of Medicines Working Group and with Medicare Australia on its Consumer and Stakeholder Consultative Groups. Diane has been a public member of the NT Medical Board since 2003. Originally from Mount Isa, Diane has lived and worked in both rural and metropolitan Queensland and New South Wales, Alice Springs and is now settled in Darwin. Her passion is for an equitable health ...more

Dr Karen Stringer (MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG, GAICD) is a general practitioner working in Darwin, and part-time in GP hospital liaison (GPHL) at RDH. Dr Stringer has been a Director of GPNNT since January 2008. She has been involved in the establishment of many general practice organisations in the NT including: the Family Medicine Program and its successor the RACGP TP; the Rural Incentives Program; TEDGP; GPDNT; GPPHCNT and most recently GPNNT.  Dr Stringer has held a range of Board positions including: Director TEDGP 7 years with 4 years as chair; GPDNT 3 years; GPPHCNT 2 years; and NTGPE 2 years.  Nationally, Dr Stringer was a member of the General Practice Strategy Review Group (1997-98) which developed the initial Charter for Divisions, SBOs and AGPN, and the subsequent Implementation Advisory Group (1998 -1999). She currently serves as the NT nominated Director to the AGPN Board, a position she has held for the since July 2005. Dr Stringer is a graduate of the ...more

Annie Farthing has worked as an Allied Health Professional in Central Australia since 1992, in urban, regional and remote locations, as well as teaching undergraduate and post-graduate health professionals. She currently works in Indigenous Aged Care and participates in activities that support increased services for people in Central Australia.

She has been a member of Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) since its inception and is a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) having served on Branch Council in the NT. Annie was nominated to the board of the Central Australian Division of Primary Health Care as the first SARRAH nominee and through that organisation to the GPPHCNT Board. She is currently the Chairperson of an independent school in Alice Springs. Through these, and other community connections, she has significant governance experience and training.

Dr Patel has 20 years experience - as a principal GP, salaried GP (mainstream and AMS) and as a medical educator – and interested in the broader primary health care context both nationally and within the NT. Her passions include womens health, education, Aboriginal health and the health of rural and remote Australians. She is regularly engaged with GP registrars and medical students and also delivers community education in multidisciplinary forms. Dr Patel strongly believes in the value of general practitioners as lead providers of health care to the Australian community. She has previously served on the CADPHC Board.

Dr Katrina Lloyd has lived in the NT for 11 years – eight in Darwin and three in Alice Springs. She moved here as a medical student with the NTRCS, and subsequently completed her intern/RMO years in the Top End (at Royal Darwin Hospital and 3 months at Katherine District Hospital). She has satisfied FRACGP requirements (via NTGPE).

Dr Lloyd has worked in general practice in Humpty Doo and Alice Springs, as a visiting GP in Yuendumu (woman's health) and as a Medical officer with SARC.  She was a member for the CADPHC board for 6 months and has worked for NTGPE as a Registrar Liaison Officer.

Dr Lloyd is passionate about primary health care and sees her future in this area.

Dr Nigel Gray has been working as a private General Practitioner in the Top End and Central Australia for more than 8 years and has gained extensive primary health care governance experience during that time. He served 4 years as Director of Central Australia Division of Primary Healthcare, as nominee and Deputy Chair of General Practice Primary Healthcare Northern Territory and Director and Treasurer of Top End Division of General Practice. Dr Gray has held the position of Director of Northern Territory General Practice Education since 2004 and immediate past Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Assessment Panel Chair Northern Territory elected to its National Board of Assessment. He was the first doctor in the Northern Territory to complete the 5 year Overseas Trained Doctor Scheme and continues to serve the Medical Board as Performance Assessor and member of its Postgraduate Medical Council.