Professor Mohamed Khadra, who has Lebanese heritage, was born in Ghana in West Africa and grew up in Sydney, has been named an Officer of the Order of Australia Medal for helping improve the numbers of doctors in rural Australia.
Professor Khadra's medical background is in the field of urology as a surgeon, clinician and mentor, in rural and remote medical education.
He says from a very young age he wanted to be a surgeon but his entry into the industry wasn't in his chosen field. He began in dentistry before moving to medicine.
He went on to work with former Federal Health Minister Michael Wooldridge in Australia's first rural clinical school - an initiative to grow the number of doctors in rural areas.
