Dr Tanya Kelly is the incoming Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate. She is an experienced senior clinician (anaesthetist) and has held clinical leadership roles for the past 10 years, most recently as Director of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine and Clinical Director for Digital Transformation within the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. We interviewed Dr Kelly about her career in medicine, her favourite pastime (which almost became her career!) and her initial focus when she takes up the role as Chair.

Russell Bowles has spent 40 years with the Queensland Ambulance Service, working his way up from cadet ambulance officer to Commissioner. As Commissioner, Russell oversaw the QAS during its move from an emergency service into the health system as an emergency health service and has been at the helm during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2021, Russell announced his retirement. We spoke with Russell about his four decades in the service and life as the outgoing commissioner.

Dr Anja Dehn is an emergency physician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Retrieval Services Queensland (RSQ). We spoke with Anja about why she chose emergency and retrieval and what challenges RSQ has had to overcome during the COVID-19 pandemic as they pick up patients from all corners of the state.

Shaun Drummond has spent the past seven years leading Australia's largest health service, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, in Brisbane. He was Chief Executive for the last three years until he finished in the role in July 2021. We spoke with Shaun about why this was the most rewarding period of his career, why he chose healthcare leadership, and what's next in his career.

Dr Mark Wenitong was one of Australia's first Indigenous medical doctors. Mark spoke to us from Cape York about what inspired him to become a doctor in his 30s and what graduating from medicine meant to his family and the broader community. He shared his goals for his new role with Queensland Health and, during NAIDOC week, what 'heal country' means to him.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and live, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

Ruth Stewart is the National Rural Health Commissioner. Appointed in 2020, she talks to us about her role and what she hopes to achieve. We also learn why Ruth left her home of more than 20 years in country Victoria to come to Queensland's Thursday Island and what inspired her to become a doctor more than three decades ago.

On this International Nurses Day, we talk with three exceptional nurses, including a Brisbane nurse who was working in New York during the city's first devastating wave of COVID-19, a Gold Coast Nurse who was infected with COVID-19 during a deployment to support Victoria's pandemic response, and an Indigenous nurse who started nursing in the city but, by chance, found her way back to the bush to pursue her career.

To celebrate International Midwives Day, we spoke with Queensland midwives Amanda, from a metropolitan health service, and Carolyn, from a rural hospital. And while they have two very different stories, they share the same passion for their profession.

Liz Crowe spent 25 years as a social worker, predominantly in paediatric intensive care and critical care. During that time she developed a passion for clinician wellbeing and started researching how she could support her colleagues. Her passion recently became her profession and Liz now draws on her clinical experience and research in her new role as a staff wellbeing consultant, counsellor and coach in one of Queensland's largest tertiary hospitals. In this interview, Liz shares some of her experiences, along with tips to help fill our tanks, feel less stressed and more engaged, particularly in the midst of a global pandemic.

There is no such thing as a typical day for Dr Carl de Wet. A General Practitioner in Logan, Carl is also the Primary Care Clinical Lead for Queensland Health's Healthcare Improvement Unit and the Gold Coast Primary Health Network (PHN). During COVID-19, Carl has taken on the role of Primary Care Lead for Queensland's COVID-19 pandemic response. We spoke to Carl about this role and whether he thinks the pandemic could assist in the state's efforts to improve healthcare integration.