A/Professor Dan Xu is a general practice clinician researcher, teaching academic and a General Practitioner (GP) who specialises in embedding both research and teaching into the primary care environment.  Highlights of his career have been in clinical duty as a GP, general practice researcher and medical educator at Curtin University and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). As a GP and clinical academic, Dan Xu has outstanding outputs as he leads a large general practice organisation that has rural outreach services and works part time in research. Dan has demonstrated significant research output in the last five years with publications in the fields of clinical research, medical education, and health service research. As an experienced clinician-researcher in primary care, Dan’s leadership and engagement has resulted in being awarded nationally and internationally competitive funding of >$10 million in Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grants and Health Service Research grants as chief investigators for research projects in rural settings, both national and international. Dan has displayed outstanding capability to lead teams in achieving all the projects' aims and objectives.

The other outstanding research contributions include: 1) Dan's achievement in leading the establishment of a general practice primary care research network (>220 GP practices) for the successful conduct of community-based clinical trials in both metropolitan and rural Western Australia (WA); 2) Through international engagement and collaboration, Dan has extended his GP research expertise to China with securing major grants and supervision of 4 PhD students to completion through international collaborations with Curtin University.