Introducing your 2009 GCMA Executive Committee…

 

 

The newly elected Executive Committee for 2009 includes:

• President: Dr Philip Morris, Consultant Psychiatrist

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

• Specialist Vice President: Dr John Kearney, Ophthalmologist

• Specialist Vice President: Dr Stephen Weinstein, Pathologist
• Specialist Vice President:  Dr Peter McLaren, Anaesthetist

• GP Vice President: Dr David Chan, GP

• Treasurer: Dr Brian Mullins, Obstetrician-Gynaecologist

• Past President: Dr David Lindsay

         

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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.

ABOUT DR LINDSAY

 

Dr David Lindsay was GCMA president in 2006. He has medical qualifications BBS (Sydney 1962) MD (Syd 1972) FRACP, FCCP.

 

Dr Lindsay was a respiratory specialist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney for 15 years. He worked at McGill University and Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada, doing a study on smoking cessation, one of many projects in his 40 year involvement with anti smoking campaigns.

 

He established the lung function laboratory at Pindara Hospital in 1986, with assistance from Pindara and colleague Dr Michael Thompson. Dr Thompson was later replaced by Dr Iain Feather, who is now the lab’s co-owner with Dr Linsday.

 

Now semi-retired, David works weekends and locums in an attempt to increase the longevity of his colleagues, and is actively involved with the lung lab and the GCMA.

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.