Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Ten ideas for building a strong Australian rural health system

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept

position: Associate professor

Australia

I am an Associate Professor & Director Flinders University Rural Clinical School. Coordinator for the Masters in Clinical Education Program. Research interests: health services, change management and integration, general practice, aged care and mental health issues.

David Mildenhall

qualifications: MBBS

position: Doctor

Dr David Rosenthal

qualifications: FACCRM, DRANZCOG

position: Senior lecturer

Australia

David Rosenthal - Previously Associate Professor in Rural Medical Education at Flinders University of SA is resident in the Riverland of South Australia and worked closely with the resident cohort of year 3 students permanently living in the Riverland undertaking the penultimate year of their post graduate entry medical course. He has been in rural general practice in Renmark for 44 years and has also been medicopolitically active over the past 30 years. He is currently Director of Medical Services at Riverland General Hospital Berri South Australia.