Dr Roger Sexton

MB BS, DRCOG, FRACGP, FACCRM

Council Regional Representative – Riverland Region

After growing up in country South Australia, Dr Sexton studied for his medical degree at the University of Adelaide. After internship at the QEH in 1978, he then studied obstetrics and gynaecology in the West Midlands in the UK before returning to Adelaide to study paediatrics and anaesthetics, in preparation for his future work in rural general practice at Mt Pleasant and Birdwood, where he has served the local communities for 27 years.

In addition to his fulltime work with patients, he also coordinated GP training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for five years and organised the GP Education Week. Roger has a keen interest in doctors’ health and managed the innovative Dr DOC Program for rural GPs across South Australia for five years to 2006. The opportunity to make a positive difference drew him to become a member of the Medical Board of South Australia in 2006 and AMA(SA) council member in 2008. He is married with two teenage children, enjoys music performance and runs a small rural sheep property near Birdwood.