Dr Steve Hambleton MBBS FAMA

Recent Speaker

President, Australian Medical Association

July 20, 2011

11.30am - 1.30pm

"Fixing Health: Unfinished business"

Dr Steve Hambleton was elected Federal President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) in May 2011, after serving a two-year term as Federal Vice President.

Dr Hambleton graduated from the University of Queensland in 1984 and commenced full-time general practice in Queensland in 1987. He has been working at the same general practice at Kedron in Brisbane since 1988.

Dr Hambleton was President of AMA Queensland and an AMA Federal Councillor. He served on the AMA Council of General Practice at a State and Federal level for more than 10 years. Dr Hambleton was the AMA representative on the National Immunisation Committee from 2006-2010, and was a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee for two years until 2009. He has been a member of the AMA Taskforce on Indigenous Health since 2006 and is currently the Chair of the Taskforce.

Dr Hambleton is a former member of the Government Red Tape Taskforce and the Practice Incentive Program and Enhanced Primary Care Review Advisory Group. He currently serves on the Practice Incentive Program Advisory Group.

In 1989, Dr Hambleton became one of the principals of Continuous Care Medical Centres, where he developed a strong interest in practice development and teaching medical students and GP registrars. In 2000, he was appointed Medical Director of Foundation HealthCare – the forerunner to one of Australia’s largest GP corporate groups, Independent Practitioner Network. Dr Hambleton became State Director of Foundation HealthCare in 2001.

Dr Hambleton was Acting CEO of AMA Queensland, October-December 2007.

Dr Hambleton was admitted as a Fellow of the AMA in 2007.

Dr Hambleton is married with four children.