Introducing your 2010 GCMA Executive Committee…

 

 

The newly elected Executive Committee for 2010 includes:

• President: Dr Peter McLaren, Anaesthetist

• Secretary/Treasurer: Dr Geoffrey Adsett, GP with special interests in Cardiovascular medicine

• Specialist Vice President: Dr John Kearney, Ophthalmologist

• Specialist Vice President: Dr Stephen Weinstein, Pathologist
• GP Vice President: Dr Margaret Kilmartin

• Past President: Prof Philip Morris
• Honorary Member: Dr Philip Rowell, Orthopaedic Registrar, Gold Coast Hospital

         

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ABOUT DR McLAREN

Dr McLaren grew up on the North Coast of NSW and graduated from UNSW in 1977.  He worked in Perth, Kalgoorlie, Wyndham and Papua New Guinea before heading off to the UK. Obtained Part 1 anaesthetic qualifications before returning the complete training in Brisbane and Perth. Peter then practiced in Lismore for 19 years before moving to the Coast in 2004, is married with 4 children, and an Army Reserve Officer since 2002 with several overseas deployments. Apart from a busy private practice at Pindara, Allamanda and Pacific Private Hospitals, Peter organises the CME meetings for the anaesthetists on the north end of the coast.

ABOUT DR KEARNEY

MBBS(Melb), FRANZCO, FRACS

Since graduating from the University of Melbourne with honours in surgery, leading ophthalmologist, Dr John Kearney, has worked extensively throughout Australia and overseas.

In addition to the specialist services he provides at the Gold Coast Eye Clinic, Dr Kearney is committed to helping patients in disadvantaged and Third World communities.

As a member of Mercy Ships and the Pacific Island Projects, he has travelled to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Tonga and Tuvala performing cataract and other surgery, giving lectures and assisting with skills transfers.

Additionally, he has worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services on the Gold Coast and in Western Australia and the Northern Territory as part of the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program established by Fred Hollows, as well as taking part in the Dili (East Timor) Eye Clinic with the iInternational Red Cross and World Health Organisation.

ABOUT DR WEINSTEIN

MBBS, FRCPA, MHA, FRACMA

Dr Stephen Weinstein is the Director of Pathology - Gold Coast Group of Laboratories, Pathology Queensland, involved in the Ipswich, Logan, QEII, Redland, Robina and Gold Coast public laboratories.

He was born in New York and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1963, attending school in Brisbane, then medical school at the University of Adelaide. Always drawn towards the biological sciences, Dr Weinstein chose medicine simply because "It seemed like an interesting, challenging career."

In 1991, having spent three years working in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, Dr Weinstein was offered a job in pathology a the Gold Coast Hospital, as the first full-time pathologist. Having witnessed the incredible growth of the hospital over the past 16 years, he is now excited about being a part of preparing for the new Parklands University Hospital.

ABOUT DR MORRIS

 

Dr Morris has medical qualifications MBBS (Hons), BSc(med) (Hons), and a PhD. He is qualified in psychiatry and addiction medicine in Australia and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) and a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine (FAChAM).

Dr Morris is Executive Director of the Gold Coast Institute of Mental Health. He is Medical Director of Mirikai, a young adult drug and alcohol rehabilitation program and Medical Director of the Gold Coast – Tweed Memory Clinic. He has a private psychiatric practice at Southport.