Dr Danielle McMullen

Dr Andrew Zuschmann

AMA (NSW) Vice President

Dr Andrew Zuschmann has a commitment to teaching and the development of a sustainable workforce.

He is a Staff Specialist at Sutherland and St George Hospitals, with a private practice in Miranda.

Dr Zuschmann is a Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist.

He graduated from the University of NSW in 1996 and completed specialist training in 2005.

Dr Kathryn Austin

Dr Michael Bonning

Chair, AMA (NSW) Council

Dr Michael Bonning is a GP working in private practice and academic medicine in Sydney on the implementation of new models of preventative health care. He is a former full-time medical officer in the Royal Australian Navy and uses the skills he learnt there as the Chief Medical Officer of an expedition and wilderness medicine organisation.

He has served on a number of health-related boards including GP Synergy, beyondblue, the Federal AMA, and AMSA.

Dr Fred Betros

Honorary Treasurer
Audit & Risk Committee Chair

Dr Betros is a general surgeon practicing in Western Sydney and the Hawkesbury district in Sydney’s north-west.  He has VMO appointments at Blacktown and Hawkesbury Hospitals and a private practice encompassing suburbs from Bella Vista to Windsor.

He has trained and worked in Western Sydney for the best part of 25 years.  This has fostered a deep understanding and commitment to both our public and private healthcare systems.

Dr Betros has been a member of the RACS NSW Regional Board in General Surgical Training since 2013 and is active in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.  He was the inaugural recipient of the General Surgeons Australia Excellence in Surgical Teaching Award (NSW & ACT).

Dr Costa Boyages

Costa joined the AMA Board as a Director in 2017 after coming to NSW Council as the Illawarra Shoalhaven representative on the NSW AMA Council in 2016.

Costa is a former international lawyer and Australian diplomat turned rural GP and VMO living and working in the NSW South Coast/Berry area.

He holds down a clinical teaching appointment with the University of Wollongong and is also a Reservist Medical Officer with the Australian Army.

Costa maintains a strong interest in rural health equity, doctor welfare and the potential of the doctor-advocate to effect social change.

Dr Sanjay Hettige

Dr Sanjay Hettige is a doctor-in-training and has previously worked in various metropolitan and rural hospitals in Queensland and New South Wales. He is currently working as an unaccredited nuclear medicine registrar at Westmead Hospital.

He is passionate about doctor-in-training advocacy and has previously served as the NSW representative to AMA Council of Doctors-in-Training and is the current Co-Chair of the AMA (NSW) Doctors-in-Training Committee.

Dr Sandy Jusuf

Chair Hospital Practice Committee

Dr Sandy Jusuf is a dual-trainee in emergency medicine and psychiatry, having worked in various metropolitan and rural hospitals in Australia and overseas, including the United Kingdom and the Solomon Islands.

She currently works as a psychiatry registrar in the Northern Sector and an emergency registrar at Canterbury hospital.

Dr Jusuf is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and on the Board of the Doctors' Health Advisory Service NSW.

She is passionate about doctors' health and set up the Health and Wellbeing website for junior doctors.

Dr Kean-Seng Lim

Chair Professional Issues Committee

Dr Lim is the 2015 RACGP General Practitioner of the Year and is a member of the AMA (NSW) Council.

He is a GP Principal in a group practice in Mt Druitt and a GP Supervisor. He has previously served on the RACGP Faculty Board and WSDGP Board.

He is currently the Secretary of the Mt Druitt Medical Practitioners Association.