Margaret Kay MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, DipRACOG, GAICD

Dr. Margaret Kay, MBBS(Hons) PhD FRACGP DipRACOG MAICD, is Medical Director of Qld Doctors’ Health Programme (QDHP). She has been working with the Doctors’ Health Advisory Service (Queensland) for over 15 years, taking on the role of Medical Director when QDHP was established as the service arm of DHAS(Q).

She graduated from The University of Queensland in 1983, with Honors in Medicine and holds an Academic Title as Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine, UQ. In 2013, she completed her PhD in Physician Health. Her thesis focussed on understanding how doctors access health care for themselves. Her successful application for the internationally competitive membership of the International Primary Health Care Leadership Program in Oxford has supported her leadership expertise and, in 2019, she completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Graduate Certificate.

Dr Kay is actively involved in training doctors and medical students to better understand their health and wellbeing, including how doctors can deliver quality care to doctors. She has over 25 peer-reviewed publications, many in the area of doctors’ health and regularly presents at national and international conferences on doctors’ health issues with a focus on enabling transformative change within the complexity of the health care environment. She is a member of the Australasian Doctors’ Health Network and a member of AMA Queensland.

Dr Kay continues to work part-time in General Practice and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She also has clinical and research expertise in refugee health and is the Clinical Lead in Multicultural Health with the Brisbane South Primary Health Network.