Steve Hambleton MBBS, FAMA, FRACGP, GAICD

Dr Steve Hambleton is the former Federal President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), a position he assumed in May 2011 after serving a two-year term as Federal Vice President. Dr Hambleton is a University of Queensland graduate (1984) and an experienced General Practitioner serving at the same general practice at Kedron in Brisbane since 1988.

He was President of AMA Queensland in 2005-6 and served on the AMA Council of General Practice at a State and Federal level for more than 15 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. He joined the AMA Taskforce on Indigenous Health in 2005 and was Chair from 2009 to 2014.

Dr Hambleton is on the Board of the Australasian Medical Publishing Company and he served on the Australian National Preventive Health Agency's Expert Committee on Alcohol from 2011 - 2014. He served as a Member of the Clinical Care Standards Advisory Committee of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and is a current member of the Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation Advisory Group.