Associate Professor Kris. Rallah-Baker is a proud Yuggera/Warangu man on his mother’s side and Wiradjuri on his father’s side. He is Australia’s first Indigenous ophthalmologist, founding member of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, former President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, Director on the Federal Board of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, technical advisor to the Fred Hollows Foundation, Chair of the Vision2020 Indigenous Committee, owner and director of Sunshine Coast Ophthalmologists at Noosa, Zeiss Opinion Leaders Advisor and holds clinical appointments at Kawana Private and Noosa Hospitals. 

As a RANZCO Fellow, he sits on RANZCO’s Federal Selection Board, Indigenous Committee and Reconciliation Action Plan Committee. Kris holds Associate Professorship appointments at both the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Melbourne.