Introducing your 2011 GCMA Executive Committee
The newly elected Executive Committee for 2011 includes:
ABOUT DR McLAREN Dr Peter McLaren MBBS(NSW) FANZCA is an anaesthetist in full-time private practice on the Gold Coast. He grew up on the Far 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. He obtained his Part 1 anaesthetic qualifications before returning to complete training in Brisbane and Perth. Peter then practiced in Lismore for 19 years before moving to the Coast in 2004. He 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 northern end of the Coast. ABOUT DR WEINSTEIN Dr Stephen Weinstein MBBS, FRCPA, MHA, FRACMA 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 PROF HOWES Prof Laurie Howes MB BS PhD FRACP FCSANZ is apre-eminent physician and a professor of pharmacology at Griffith and Bond University. His interests are general and cardiovascular medicine and research interests are clinical trials and cardiovascular research. ABOUT PROF MORRIS
Prof Philip Morris MB BS, BSc (med), PhD, FRANZCP, FAChAM (RACP), AmBPN 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). Prof Morris is President of the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association. He is Medical Director of the Gold Coast Memory Clinic. He has a private psychiatric practice at Southport. He is senior psychiatric advisor to the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs. He has an academic appointment at Bond University Medical School.
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