Committee

Dr Anne Wilson

BMedSci MBBS DRANZCOG MRACGP FAMA
Chair
Elected until AGM 2027

Dr Anne Wilson graduated BMedSci (1978) MBBS (1981) from the University of Tasmania and attained DRANZCOG (‘Diploma of Obstetrics’) in 1986. Anne worked for 10 years in rural general practice (including GP Obstetrics) in Circular Head before moving to Launceston and working at the Summerdale Medical Practice since 1996.
Anne was a member of AMA Tasmania State Council until 2023 and was the AMA Tasmania representative on the Federal AMA Council of General Practice from 2012 to 2020. Anne was the Federal AMA representative on the National Immunisation Committee until 2020. Anne is the Editor of the GP Pregnancy Care Pregnancy Record (‘the pink book’) which was initially developed for use in Northern Tasmania and is now a statewide resource available through Primary Health Tasmania.

Dr Donald Rose

BMedSci MBBS FAMA
Chair Aged Care Advisory Group; Social Media Coordinator
Elected until AGM 2026

Dr Rose graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1980 with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and had intern, resident and medical registrar roles at the LGH before enrolling in the Family Medicine Programme. After a number of hospital and general practice locums along the northwest coast of Tasmania, Dr Rose moved to Circular Head in 1986 with his wife and fellow GP, Anne Wilson, to take over a rural practice from a retiring medical couple. Soon after arriving there, they merged their practice with the other rural practice in the region to establish the Smithton Medical Practice and they also took on visiting medical officer roles at the Smithton District Hospital.

After 10 years of rural practice (and having 4 children) they relocated to Launceston where Dr Rose joined the Summerdale Medical Practice. During his 30 years as a partner at the Summerdale Medical Practice Dr Rose held positions in the northern division of the Tasmanian AMA, the AMA State Council, the Primary Health Tasmania Clinical Advisory Council, the Tasmanian General Practice Forum and the University of Tasmania. He chaired the General Practice North Aged Care Advisory Group.

Dr Rose reduced his general practice work in 2025 but remains active in GP North and does some general practice relief work.

Dr Magnus Agomuo

MBBS BSc FRACGP FASLM, MSc, MPH, GCDHHA, Specialist Cert, Palliative Med. Cert, Geriatric Medicine. CertOL
Committee Member
Elected until AGM 2028

Dr Agomuo gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry before graduating from medical school in 2000 with Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australia College of General Practitioners and Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He also has a Master of Public health (MPH) and Master of Lifestyle Medicine degrees from James Cook University together with a Graduate certificate in Disaster Health and humanitarian assistance, a Specialist Certificate in palliative care from the Flinders University. Dr Agomuo has worked in several continents and currently works as a rural GP in Westbury Family. He is involved in the training of medical students, Resident Medical Officers and GP Registrars. He has a special interest in mental health, adolescence health, drug/alcohol and addiction medicine, medical education, Aboriginal health, men’s health and geriatric medicine.

Dr Jehan Phillips

MBBS
Committee Member
Elected until AGM 2027

Dr Jehan Phillips is the principal Family Practitioner at First Point Healthcare, Newstead which he established in 2007. Jehan has over 17 years’ experience in all aspects of general practice and has a special interest in general family health, preventive medicine and skin medicine.

Alison Clifford

BCOM Dip (Superannuation)
Financial Controller and Public Officer

Alison has worked in various financial services roles including superannuation, accounting and financial management over the past 20 years. Her extensive financial management experience gained both in Australia and the UK has enabled her to bring a wealth of diverse knowledge and experience to her roles. Prior to moving to Tasmania from Brisbane in 2019, she worked for ten years within the superannuation industry as a Trustee Services Manager and held a position on the Executive Management Team of the then, IFAA Group of Companies.

During her time in Tasmania, Alison returned to part-time work within a local General Practice clinic carrying out financial, payroll and administrative tasks. It was through this role that led to Alison accepting the position as the Financial Controller and Public Officer for GP North in November 2021.

Since relocating back to Brisbane in 2024, Alison has retained her position working remotely for GP North and is also the Business Administration Manager for her husband Glenn, who is a General Practitioner.

Alison holds a Bachelor of Commerce (The University of Queensland), a Diploma in Superannuation and is RG146 qualified.

Kelly Gregory

Administration Manager

Kelly commenced work with ANZ in 1987 working predominantly in Launceston, except for a 4-year West Coast adventure to ANZ Zeehan / Rosebery. Kelly’s work focus during her 13 years with ANZ was lending, branch management and assisting ANZ’s Premier Customers.

She accepted a redundancy package in 1999 to start a family and during this time she completed a 7-month customer service role at the Telstra Fault Call Centre in Launceston.

Kelly began working at the Summerdale Medical Practice in a part time capacity as a receptionist in 2004. As time became more available Kelly increased her hours and has been in the Assistant Practice Manger position since 2010, gaining a Cert iv in Health Administration in 2012.

In addition to working at Summerdale part time, Kelly commenced as the Administration Manager for GP North in 2021.

Phil Edmondson

Strategic Advisor

Phil has been somewhat of a fixture within Tasmania’s primary healthcare organisational and leadership space for the past 30 years. He retired last year from his most recent full-time role as inaugural CEO of Primary Health Tasmania shortly after its 10 year anniversary having previously led Medicare Local Tasmania for 5 years.

He has recently returned to his regional roots at GP North in the role of Strategic Advisor, an organisational he helped build and lead as its senior manager and then CEO for over 14 years.

Working in complex system environments, he has led Tasmanian primary health service commissioning, several transformative system and organisational reconfigurations and establishment of new and innovative services and solutions supporting the system and primary health providers to improve the health of Tasmanians.

Phil has a deep knowledge of the regional, State and national primary care landscapes and is relishing the opportunity to apply some of that knowledge in his current role continuing in the strong vein he started with in supporting Northern Tasmanian general practitioners through GP North.

Phil currently holds directorships on the Boards of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research (Tasmania) and Community Based Support Tasmania.

He has also recently completed roles with the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare Primary Health Advisory Committee, the Tasmanian Health Senate, and Premier’s Advisory Committees for Primary Care and Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, the Tasmanian Data Linkage Management Committee and the national PHN Primary Health Insights joint venture.