Charley Greentree

Dr. Charley Greentree is an emergency physician serving in the University of Queensland's Faculty of Medicine, specifically within the Office of Medical Education. She holds the position of Theme Lead for Kind and Compassionate Professional in the redesign of the UQ Doctor of Medicine (MD) program. In this capacity, she has contributed to the development of the CompassionEd curriculum alongside Dr. Venkat Reddy, as presented in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress in 2022. Greentree presented a workshop on values, whole person approach, and reimagining the medical program during UQ's Teaching and Learning Week on November 4, 2021, alongside colleagues from the School of Public Health. She supervises graduate student research projects, including Punkaja Amarasekera's work on investigating methods to describe the hidden curriculum in a graduate medical program, co-supervised by Professor Kirsty Foster, as part of the 2022 MEDI7282 Foundations of Medical Research Symposium. Her passions include integrating compassion and kindness into medical curricula and practice, faculty development, and methodologies for teaching, evaluation, and assessment across health professional training levels. Greentree has delivered sessions such as PsychBite 3 on Mental Wellbeing in 2024 with Dr. Margaret Kaye and Dr. Johanna Lynch, and a masterclass at ANZAHPE on embedding care into the curriculum of caring professions.

Clinically, Dr. Greentree is the Clinical Director of Education for Retrieval Services Queensland, a Senior Staff Specialist in the Emergency Department at Redcliffe Hospital, an Emergency Physician at St Vincent’s Emergency in Toowoomba, a Telehealth Emergency Consultant supporting rural and remote Queensland emergency departments, and TEC-TEMSU Emergency Consultant for Queensland Health. She also serves as a Performance and Leadership Coach. Her scholarly contributions focus on emergency medicine decision-making and education. Notable publications include co-authorship of 'What Would I Do if I Was an Emergency Physician? A Tool To Generate Discussion' published in 2025 in Advances in Medical Education and Practice, affiliated with Retrieval Services Queensland. She contributed chapters to the 2021 book Decision Making in Emergency Medicine, such as on Blind Spot Bias, Tolerance of Uncertainty and the Practice of Emergency Medicine, and related topics on cognitive biases in clinical practice. Greentree is acknowledged in Queensland Health's Primary Clinical Care Manual for her expertise as a telehealth emergency consultant and clinical director of education.