Dr Anne Tonkin steps down as Medical Board of Australia chair
Dr Anne Tonkin's successor is Dr Susan O’Dwyer, a Queensland medical administrator.
The chair of the Medical Board of Australia steps down this week after six years in the job.
During that time, Dr Anne Tonkin oversaw the introduction of the board’s new mandatory CPD regime and pushed for compulsory health checks on older doctors amid concerns about patient safety.
The board’s new chair is Dr Susan O’Dwyer, a Queensland medical administrator and current chair of the board’s advisory committee on it’s new fast-track pathway for specialist IMG.
Dr Tonkin originally trained as a physician, specialising in clinical pharmacology before working as a clinical academic at the Adelaide Medical School and as a visiting specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
