Dr James Reid is the Secretary and is has previously been the Deputy Chairperson and the South Island representative on the Committee.
He is a rural hospital doctor and Senior Medical Officer at Lakes District Hospital in Queenstown (Southland DHB), a Fellow of the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine (FDRHMNZ) and is involved with the administration of the Rural Hospital Training Scheme as Chair of their Board of Studies. James has an MBCHB from Otago 1988, DpObst 1990. He was previously a General Practitioner in Wellington.