Claire is an Associate Professor in General Practice & Primary Health Care Director, Mater Centre for Integrated Health Care and General Practice, Mater Hospital, South Brisbane.

Claire has been active in general practice undergraduate and postgraduate education and research for many years, and has been extensively involved in health services research and reform since the early 90s. As Director of the University of Queensland Field Support Service, she was heavily involved in the development of Divisions of General Practice in the mid 90s.

Her current primary area of research interest is in improved health system integration, a topic on which she has published and presented internationally. With Inge de Jong, Claire co-authored “Achieving Effective Health Care Integration – the Essential Guide” in 2000. She is a member of Queensland’s General Practice Advisory Council, Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (Qld Faculty), a part-time Training Advisor with General Practice Education Australia and national Chair of the RACGP College Council.

Claire is involved in the National Demonstration Hospitals Program and Divisions / Hospital Integration Program. She is also an active clinician in part-time general practice in Brisbane.