AMA SA Board Members
The AMA SA Board oversees the AMA SA’s management and operations, freeing up the AMA SA Council to focus its attention on matters of policy.
Left to right: Dr Peter Subramaniam (AMA SA Vice President), Dr Shriram Nath (AMA Board Member), Ms Megan Webster (Independent Director), Dr John Williams (AMA SA President), Prof. Tarun Bastiampillai (AMA Board Member), Dr Bridget Sawyer (AMA Board Member) and Prof. Edward (Ted) Mah (AMA Board Member).
Dr John Williams is a general practitioner practising in Port Lincoln. In addition to the usual GP duties, John has a special interest in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment. He helps at the Port Lincoln Hospital's emergency department and attends to inpatients.
John graduated from Adelaide University in 1993. This was followed by some time in paediatrics at the Women's and Children's Hospital, obstetrics at Flinders Medical Centre and general practice in rural and city locations.
He has also spent time in hospitals (plastics and emergency) and general practice in the UK.
Outside medicine John has studied jazz music at the Elder Conservatorium and continues to perform locally and compose for short films. Family life with his wife and daughter is central to John.
Peter Subramaniam is a Senior Consultant Vascular Surgeon with over two decades of service at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Royal Adelaide Hospital , with his private hospital practice being based at Calvary Adelaide and Ashford. He is a graduate (MBBS )from the University of Melbourne and subsequently completed a General Surgical Fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a Fellowship in Vascular Surgery at the Alfred and Austin Hospitals in Melbourne, and the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Queensland.
He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, as well as completing a Surgical Leadership Program from Harvard . He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators.
He is an Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and has convened and chaired the Board of the Adelaide Vascular Trials( AVT) since its establishment in 2001. Peter served for 9 years (2010 to 2019) on the Board of Vascular Studies of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, which has a pivotal role in overseeing the binational vascular surgery training program, including selection, training credentialing, and curriculum setting.
His professional contributions include serving as the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery (2020-2022) and the World Federation of Vascular Societies (2021). Peter is involved in initiatives to enhance cost efficiency and clinical decision-making in the South Australian healthcare system, in his role as Medical Lead Surgery Stream 2 (Director of Surgery) at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He served as Chair of the Clinical Council of the Central Adelaide Local Healthcare Network (CALHN) from 2022 to the end of 2024 and during that time, served on the Board of CALHN as the senior medical observer. He is the Vice President of AMA SA and served as Chair of the SA Branch of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons between 2012-2014.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter served as an advisor to the South Australian government on elective surgical restrictions and continues to serve on the State Elective Surgery Steering Committee. He is on the Steering Committee of the Australian Ethical Healthcare Alliance and chaired the Clinical Committee on Vascular and Endovascular Procedures during the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review (2017-2019).
This year he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at the Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health where he teaches at the Rural Medical School in the Riverland where he has been providing a visiting consulting service since 2001.
He is a founder partner of Adelaide Vascular.
