AMA Members Honoured for Commitment to Patients and Medicine
AMA President, Professor Brian Owler, has congratulated almost 20 GPs, specialists, researchers and educators recognised for their significant contributions to the health of the community and their services to medicine in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
This year's honours recipients are from all sections of the medical profession and recognise outstanding work in promoting the health of all Australians.
Prof Owler said the diversity and breadth of the accomplishments cited in the awards were testament to the significant contribution to the community made by medical practitioners every day.
Among the recipients is South Australian GP Dr Anh-Tuan Ngo, who had been a doctor in the South Vietnamese army and came to Australia as a refugee with his family in 1984. Since arriving in Australia, Dr Ngo has worked tirelessly, not only to loom after his patients, but to serve the local Vietnamese community and support other veterans of the Vietnam War.
Another to be made a Member of the Order of Australia was Victorian GP Dr Barry Christopher who, in addition to his work as a doctor, campaigned for decades to advance Indigenous rights.
In the late 1950s Dr Christopher became President of the Victorian Council for Aboriginal Rights, and was a founding member of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Prof Owler said Dr Ngo and Dr Christopher were examples of the major contribution made by many AMA members to aspects of life well beyond medicine, and were deserved recipients of Queen’s Birthday Honours.
The AMA is particularly proud of its members who received honours. They include:
New South Wales
Prof Ross Beresford Holland AM
For significant service to medicine in the discipline of anaesthesia as a clinical, to healthcare standards, and to professional medical bodies.
Prof Ian Andrew Harris AM
For significant service to medicine, particularly in the field of orthopaedics as a clinical, to education and research, and to professional bodies.
Prof Bruce James Brew AM
For significant service to medicine, particularly the neurological impacts of HIV/AIDS, as a clinician and researcher, and to medical education
Dr Philip Kingsley Godden OAM
For service to medicine and to community health.
A/Prof Alyson Margaret Kakakios OAM
For service to medicine in the field of paediatric and immunology.
Victoria
Dr David George William Hollands OAM
For service to medicine as a general practitioner, and to ornithology
Dr Barry Eastwood Christophers AM
For significant service to the Indigenous community through advocacy roles and to medicine as a general practitioner.
Dr Catherine Mary Crock AM
For significant service to medicine, particularly to improved patient and family care and community health care standards, and to the arts.
Dr Alan Isaacs AM
For significant service to medical education, particularly in the field of ophthalmology and to professional organisations.
Dr Robert Neil Roy AM
For significant service to medicine in the field of paediatrics, particularly through the development of neonatal transport services.
Prof John Francis Seymour AM
For significant service to medicine in the field of haematology through a range of senior appointments in blood and bone marrow cancer research.
Queensland
Professor Stephen Vincent Lynch AC
For eminent service to medicine, particularly through major advancements in the area of liver transplantation surgery and science, as a leading clinician, to medical education and training at a national and international level, and to professional organisations.
Professor Ian Ronald GOUGH AM
For significant service to medicine as a clinician, to education as an academic, researcher and author, and through medical advisory roles.
Dr Michael William LANIGAN AM
For significant service to medicine as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and through charitable and professional organisations.
Western Australia
Prof Karen Simmer AO
For distinguished service to medicine in the field of paediatrics, particularly neonatal and perinatal nutrition, to medical education as an academic, researcher and clinician, and to the community.
Clinical Professor Richard Herrmann AM
For significant service to medicine, particularly to haematology as a clinician, to bone marrow transplantation services, and to education.
Dr Anthony Keller AM
For significant service to medicine, particularly transfusion and blood donor services, as a specialist, and through executive roles.
Dr John Blackwell OAM
For service to medicine, to professional organisations, and to medical education.
South Australia
Dr Anh-Tuan Ngo AM
For significant service to veterans and their families, as a supporter of ex-service groups, and to the Vietnamese community of South Australia.
Dr Brian John Norcock OAM
For service to rural medicine, and to the community of Naracoorte.
* Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AC)
* Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
** Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
*** Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
11 June 2015
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