Dr Stephen Gourley is the DEM of Alice Springs Hospital and the President of ACEM. He is dedicated to continuing to improve the provision of emergency medicine, no matter where you live in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand. He has a strong interest in rural emergency medicine and Indigenous health, especially to the communities of central Australia where he lived and worked for 17 years. He believes that enact long lasting change, you need to get involved and contribute to the broader health care system at a Sate/ Territory and National level. To that end, he has been the immediate past Chair of the NT Clinical Senate, Deputy Chair of the Federal AMA Board, Deputy Chair of the National Rural Health Alliance and numerous ACEM committees including the Rural Regional and Remote Committee, Indigenous Health Committee and Chair of the Health Service Reform (which he likes to call “Revolution”) Committee. Through this work, he has been a strong advocate for equitable rural healthcare and rural emergency medicine training.