Congratulations to Invitation to Health’s Dr Andrew Kwong on receiving an OAM for service to general practice medicine. Originally from China, Kr Kwong became a GP in 1979. He has been at the forefront of building a medical community on the Central Coast.

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In 1985 he founded the Gosford GP After-Hours Cooperative, and was Chair of the co-operative from 1985 until 1994. He was a founding member of the Central Coast Division of General Practitioners, serving on its executive until 2000 and that same year, he also founded the Central Coast Medical Association and was its chair from 2005 until 2016.
 
In 1993, he was also a co-founder of the Yerin Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health Centre. Within the RACGP, Dr Kwong is a Life Fellow, was a Faculty Board Member and Fellowship Examiner in NSW in the early 1990s, and from the mid-1980s until 2018 was also a GP educator and supervisor.
 
Dr Kwong is also a keen writer of short stories. In 2021, his memoir of his traumatic early childhood in China, and move to a new life in Australia, One Bright Moon, earned him the Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the State Library of NSW’s National Biography Award.