Dr Genevieve Yates was elected to MDA National's Mutual Board in November 2021. For the past twenty years, Dr Yates has worked as a GP in regional Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria and is currently practising in Ballarat, Victoria. She has combined clinical work with various medical educator, regulatory, medical writing, management and leadership roles. She worked full time as the Royal Australian College of General Practice's General Manager of Education from January 2020 to March 2021.

Dr Yates’ previous positions include Principal Medical Education Advisor for the RACGP, the RACGP Queensland Censor, Chair of the RACGP Expert Committee Pre-Fellowship Education, a performance assessor for Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, and Associate Director of Training at North Coast GP Training. As a member of the MDA National facilitator team since 2013, Dr Yates has presented over 100 medico-legal educational sessions for MDA National and sat on the Educational Services Advisory Group from 2013–19.

Dr Yates likes to combine medicine and creativity, and has had several short stories, a novel and a play published, a short film produced, and five plays as well as a musical staged.

Dr Alison Edgecomb is a general practitioner currently practising in metropolitan Adelaide.  She enjoys being involved in medical education including being an examiner for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, as well as previous teaching roles with medical students at Flinders University.  Alison has been a member of the MDA National facilitator team since 2019.  She holds a Bachelor of Medical Science, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, and is a Fellow of the RACGP.