Dr Roger Sexton AM, Chair Doctors' Health Alliance
MBBS (Adel), DRCOG(UK), FRACGP, FACRRM, MBA (Adel), FAICD
Roger was Chair of the Australasian Doctors’ Health Network and transitioned to the formal Doctors’ Health Alliance. He is currently the part-time Medical Director of Doctors' Health SA. He has been a rural procedural GP for over 35 years. Roger is a past member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (2010-2013) and former board director NPS MedicineWise, and he was the last Presiding Member of the Medical Board of SA in 2010. He also currently works as a medical consultant in executive health and conducts the state-wide Local Government and is Editor of the AMA(SA)’s Medic SA publication. He is a current board director d GPEx. He has been a previous board director for Medical Insurance Group Australia (MIGA), Doctors’ Health Services Pty Ltd and Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network.
He has a long-standing interest in doctors’ health and medical education, having played a major role in establishing both the rural doctors’ Dr DOC program in early 1999 and the Doctors’ Health SA Program in 2010 and the Doctors' Health NT program in 2016.
He completed his MBA at the University of Adelaide in 2015 and is committed to life-long education.
Roger's unique experience and roles in rural clinical medicine, education, medical indemnity and regulation has been of value to the program. Roger was made a Member of the Order (AM) on 26 January 2023 for his work in doctors' health and rural general practice.
Roger was made a Member of the Order (AM) for his work, for over 30 years, supporting his colleague's health and wellbeing through doctors' health programs, at the Australia Day Honours in 2023.