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Dr Christopher Stelmaschuk

Board Director

Dr Chris Stelmaschuk is an experienced General Practitioner who has a strong passion for improving the health of all North Queenslanders. He is Practice Principal and Director at North Shore General Practice and has established the North Shore Men's Health Clinic in Townsville. Along with being a strong advocate in Men's Health, Dr Stelmaschuk's experience extends to child and adolescent mental health, aged care, refugee health, indigenous health and he is heavily involved in GP training.

Born in Canada, Dr Stelmaschuk has lived in North Queensland since a young child. He completed medical school with the first cohort of medical students at James Cook University in 2005, before spending his junior hospital years at the Townsville Hospital (now Townsville University Hospital). After a short hiatus travelling through South America, Dr Stelmaschuk began GP training through Tropical Medical Training in 2009, finishing his fellowship with RACGP in 2011. Dr Stelmaschuk is completing a project with the NQPHN and Townsville Hospital and Health Service to help improve primary care in residential aged care facilities with the use of innovative and collaborative practices.

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First Nation Peoples and the Traditional Custodians of this land.

We respect their continued cultural and spiritual connection to country, waters, kin, and community.

We also pay our respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging as the custodians of knowledge and lore.

We are committed to making a valued contribution to the wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of northern Queensland.

NQPHN’s offices are proudly on Gimuy-Walubara Yidinji and Yirrganydji Country (Cairns), Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country (Townsville), and Yuwibara Country (Mackay).