Dr Allan Walley of Margaret River received the Rural Health West Doctors’ Service award for Outstanding Service to Rural and Remote Health. Allan has 32 years’ experience in rural medicine in WA.
Christmas Island GP Dr Julie Graham won the award for Remote and Clinically Challenging Medicine. Last December she was instrumental in the rescue attempt and medical care of asylum seekers whose boat collided with rocks off the island. She has been practising on Christmas Island for the past five years.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Barney McCallum received an award for Extraordinary Contribution to Outreach Service. He is a specialist who has worked in the Goldfields community for many years.
UWA has announced Prof Paul Johnson will succeed Prof Alan Robson as Vice-Chancellor at the end of the year. Paul has led Victoria’s La Trobe University for four year and was previously Deputy Director of the London School of Economics for three years.
Mr Clive Macknay has been elected Chair of St John of God Health Care Trustees. Born in Perth and educated at UWA, Clive was an inaugural member of the SJOG board in the early 1990s and joined the Trustees in 2009.