Dr Melanie Smith She/Her

Chair of Board, Chair of Commissioning Oversight Committee, Member of Board Selection Committee.

Melanie Smith

Dr Melanie Smith is a sole trader/tenant GP at Chandlers Hill Surgery with interests in palliative care, paediatrics, mental health, diagnostic reasoning and evidence-based practice. She is a council member (and formerly Deputy Chair) of the SA Faculty for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and a member of the RACGP Future Governance Committee.

Melanie is also a GP Consultant and Co-Clinical Lead for the SA Virtual Care Service, Deputy Chair of the South Australian Health Performance Council, and a casual GP Consultant for the BRIGHT Service (Integrated Care Service).

As a former software engineer who transitioned into medicine, Melanie is passionate about general practice-led primary health care as well as incorporating digital innovation and data analytics to keep the patient at the centre of health system improvement strategy.