Meet the Team

Dr Josie Guyer, CHAIR

Dr Josie Guyer is the current sitting chair of the Indigenous General Practice Trainee Network.

Dr Josie Guyer is a proud Wiradjuri woman who was born and grew up in Wagga Wagga, in the south west of NSW, and is now living and working on Dharawal and Darug Country. Josie’s ancestral lines are poorly understood as her mother and her mothers’ mother were survivors of the Stolen Generation having lived at Cootamundra Girls home for some of their lives. Josie is a proud mum of three almost adult children, and enjoys spending time with her family, walking her fur babies, swimming and reading.

As the current Chair of the Indigenous General Practice Trainee Network, Josie is passionate about mentoring and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander GP Trainees across Australia. Josie works part-time as a GP with a focus on mental health, women’s and child health and her other passion is supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the community, she also works part-time as the Censor for the RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander faculty.

Dr Olivia O’Donoghue, LEAD MEDICAL EDUCATOR

Olivia is a Yankunytjtjara woman with grandmother connections to Narungga Nations. Olivia is an RACGP Fellow currently living and working on Kaurna Country in South Australia. Olivia has experience living and working in urban and remote Northern Territory, including in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services sector. Olivia has worked as a Cultural Educator and Medical Educator in the general practice training space since 2014 and has dedicated her ongoing career to improving systems in medical education and training that values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing, through a decolonisation and an Indigenisation lens.

Olivia was appointed as the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Censor for the RACGP in August 2020, representing the National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. As an RACGP Censor Olivia consulted on matters pertaining to quality assurance processes for education, training, policy and assessment, including support and advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors undertaking RACGP training. Since October 2023 Olivia has been appointed the inaugural National Clinical Head of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander training for the RACGP continuing this essential work.

Olivia has been on the board of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) in 2009, 2017 and returned to the board in 2022 to current. Olivia flies to Ceduna once a month as a clinical GP and GP supervisor for Yadu Health Aboriginal Corporation.

Olivia was employed as the Indigenous Medical Educator for the Indigenous General Practice Registrar Network (IGPRN) in 2019 and continues in the lead Medical Educator role since the incorporation of IGPTN in November 2023.

Olivia is honoured to have been part of IGPTN family since its inception as IGPRN, as a trainee until now, as a Fellow, mentor and employee. She is passionate about high quality meaningful education, culturally safe training and about supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander GPs in training, to and beyond Fellowship. Olivia passionately believes that training and workforce equity in general practice is a social justice right and that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander GPs have a pivotal role in improving the Australian health care system and health outcomes for all Australians.