Dr Jillian (Jill) Maxwell OAM

Dr Jillian (Jill) Maxwell

OAM

SCHOOL GOVERNOR 1994 - 2006

Jill has been a General Practitioner since 1976 and is the principal and owner of Adelaide City General Practice, a practice which welcomes patients from all walks of life. She has a strong commitment to social justice as demonstrated by her work with people with disabilities, refugees and people who are homeless.

Jill is a Principal Supervisor of medical students and registrars and has long been involved in the teaching of medical students in Disability Medicine. From 1996 to 2010 Jill held positions as a Board Member and then Chairperson of the Medical Insurance Group Australia. From 2011 she was the Chair of medical indemnity insurance company MDA National’s Medical Liaison Council.

Jill chaired the General Practice Advisory Council of three Federal Ministers for Health. From 2010 to 2014 she was a Clinical Lead in the National E-Health Transition Authority which was instrumental in the establishment of Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records.

As a Pulteney parent, Jill was elected to the Council of Governors in 1994, at that time, one of two female members. She remained a Governor until 2006, serving as Chairman from 1997 onwards. Formerly, the Bishop of Adelaide had been the defacto Chairman, Jill was the first Chair to be elected. Jill’s strength of leadership and her vision led to Pulteney’s 1999 return to coeducation and to relative prosperity, with the enrolment of our first girls since 1884. In 2007 Dr Maxwell was awarded the Medal of The Order of Australia (OAM) for services to medicine, medical indemnity and to the community. In 1995 she was awarded a fellowship of the Australian Medical Association for outstanding service to the Association.