Dr Olga Ward
MBBS, FRACGP, GDRGP, FRACGP-RG, FACRRM
Procedural General Practitioner | Rural Generalist
Diamond Convenor of CTEC’s The Cutting Edge Workshops
Dr Olga Ward has been a Rural Generalist since 1994 and was one of the first GPs in Australia to obtain a GDRGP/FARGP (FRACGP-RG) in surgery as well as in adult internal medicine. She also holds a FACRRM.
In 2017, Dr Ward received a joint award from Rural Health West and Wesfarmers for her work in remote and clinically challenging medicine. In 2020 Dr Ward was the joint winner of the Australian Medical Association's (WA) Hippocrates Award for her unwavering commitment to the profession of medicine and dedicated service to patients and the broader community. In 2025 she received an award from Rural Health West acknowledging her 30 years of service in rural WA.
She has recently discovered that there are many funky designs for scrubs and will not be wearing clothes to work in preference to pyjamas with pockets, ever again.