Professor Michael Kidd is currently Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. He was instrumental in tackling the issues faced by the College during a tumultuous period in 2002 and forging a much stronger organisation, aligned to members' needs. Michael has held numerous leadership positions throughout his career and, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine and education in the areas of general practice and primary health care.