Biography
A/Prof George Eskander is a Perth-based healthcare executive, clinician and academic with more than 15 years of international leadership experience. His work spans executive health-system management, clinical governance, medical education and digital health reform.
It can affect confidence, wellbeing, family life and the direction of a career. PassGP was created to make that experience clearer, fairer and less isolating for doctors building their futures through the Australian health system.
- A/Prof George Eskander, Founder and Chief Examiner, PassGP
Academic and examination authority
George’s academic work sits alongside extensive experience in the design, delivery and quality assurance of high-stakes medical assessment in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Curtin Medical School, contributing to teaching and research across medical education, health-system reform and clinician wellbeing.
As former RACGP National Lead Examiner, George led work across assessment reform, quality assurance and examiner training for national Fellowship and selection examinations.
His former examiner roles with the Australian Medical Council and the United Kingdom PLAB examination add experience across written, clinical and selection assessment on two continents.
His teaching, research and presentations connect assessment practice with health-system leadership, medical workforce reform and the lived experience of doctors in training.
Biography
George is a specialist general practitioner whose clinical background spans general practice, hospital medicine and procedural care. Today, his work brings together executive health-system management, clinical governance, medical education and digital health reform.
He is Chief Clinical Operations Officer with the Western Australian Department of Health, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Curtin Medical School, a former RACGP National Lead Examiner, and the founder and Chief Examiner of PassGP.
Across more than a decade in medical assessment, George led national assessment reform, quality assurance and examiner training. He also served as an examiner for the Australian Medical Council and the United Kingdom PLAB examination, bringing experience across written, clinical and selection assessment on two continents.
George founded PassGP after seeing capable doctors struggle with assessments whose expectations could feel opaque. Its purpose is to make the task clear, help doctors show their clinical judgement, and support the person behind the result.
Healthcare leadership
George has held executive roles across public and private healthcare, working at hospital, health-service and statewide level. Alongside clinical governance and operational leadership, he has remained closely involved in teaching, research and doctors’ wellbeing - work shaped by the belief that doctors serve patients best when their own working lives are safe and sustainable.
Selected chapters
George’s public work has moved between examination design, healthcare leadership, workforce reform and medical education. These moments help tell that story.
George has held senior statewide clinical leadership roles within WA Health, including Chief Clinical Operations Officer for the Department of Health, and has served as a standing member of the Clinical Senate.
WA Health profileGeorge co-authored an Australian Health Review case study leading a whole-of-organisation approach to clinician burnout, workforce recruitment and retention across Western Australia.
Read the publicationGeorge is an Associate Professor at Curtin University and a regular invited speaker at national healthcare conferences, including RACMA, the Australian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and The Health Roundtable.
View RACMA speaker profileGeorge was recognised in the 2025 Business News 40under40 cohort, acknowledging his leadership and contribution to healthcare innovation in Western Australia.
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Explore George’s service on the Western Australia Board of the Medical Board of Australia, and how this work connects with his broader contribution to clinical governance, professional standards and medical leadership.
Sick of second guessing what the examiner wants? Hear from our Chief Examiner, A/Prof Eskander, as he explains how to display perfect exam technique for the CCE and not run out of time.
