At the Association’s Annual General Meeting in late February 2018, Dr Kerry Breen, stepped down after eight years of service as President and in his place Dr Bernadette Hickey was elected. A Monash graduate, Dr Hickey is a physician trained in respiratory medicine and intensive care medicine and has been on the Senior Medical Staff in the ICU at St Vincent’s Hospital since 1997. In 2015-2017 she served as Chairman of the Senior Medical Staff Association. She has played a number of other roles at St Vincent’s Public Hospital and at St Vincent’s Private Hospital.