Meet the QPA Team
Joanne Oakes (Practice Onboarding & Certification): Helping quality stay practical behind the scenes
While many parts of QPA involve direct day-to-day support for practices, Joanne Oakes works one step behind that - helping ensure the systems, tools and team support are strong enough for the whole program to run well. As Manager of Practice Onboarding and...
Dr Melinda Griffiths (Surveyor): Seeing general practice from every angle
Dr Melinda Griffiths did not set out expecting general practice to define so much of her professional life. She began in hospitals as a nurse at 17, later trained in medicine, and initially thought her career would head elsewhere. Instead, family circumstances led...
Dr Paul Mara (QPA Founder & Managing Director): Think rural and remote. Think different.
Its time to tell a personal story. I did rural medicine because of a horse called Sospel. At the end of 1971, my final year in high school, I was conned by some mates into going to Randwick Racecourse. I put $4 - a small fortune at that time - on a horse that came in...