Dr Simon Holliday has been a rural general practitioner in NSW for three decades and a part-time Staff Specialist for the Drug and Alcohol Clinical Services of the Hunter New England Local Health District at the Manning Hospital in Taree.
He is the immediate past chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Specific Interests Network of Pain Management and a Conjoint Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. He has been principal author or collaborator on several opinion pieces and research studies on the management of pain, addiction and psychoactive pharmaceuticals in general practice and the evaluation of such education for GPs.