Renowned respiratory medicine physician and regional and remote health services researcher, Professor Graeme Maguire, has been appointed Associate Dean of Medicine at 麻豆直播.
Professor Maguire is a specialist physician whose research interests have focussed on health services research and the health care needs of vulnerable populations including Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples and residents of rural and resource poor settings.
Professor Maguire joins Curtin from Western Health in Melbourne where he has been the head of General Internal Medicine while continuing to provide remote physician outreach services to Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands. Prior to this he was a Divisional Director at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne and Alice Springs and spent 15 years working as a physician in regional and remote Australia including the Kimberley, far north Queensland, the 鈥楾op End鈥� of the Northern Territory and Central Australia.
麻豆直播 Pro-Vice Chancellor Health Sciences, Professor Archie Clements said Professor Maguire鈥檚 vast experience working together with vulnerable communities to deliver better health outcomes made him a valuable and welcome addition to Curtin鈥檚 Medical School.
鈥淧rofessor Maguire has spent decades working on the ground in remote areas, engaging with those communities to understand their health needs in order to deliver better services. This commitment, echoes Curtin鈥檚 own focus on rural and regional health,鈥� Professor Clements said.
鈥淗is leadership and expertise will be invaluable, particularly as we open our Rural Health Campus at Kalgoorlie, which is focussed on addressing the uneven distribution of health services in regional Western Australia through increasing rural training opportunities and programs.鈥�
Curtin Medical School Dean, Professor Sandra Eades said she was delighted to welcome Professor Maguire to the Curtin Medical School leadership team, where he will join fellow new appointee, Associate Dean Professor Wieland Meyer.
鈥淧rofessor Maguire is an outstanding addition to the Medical School who will help us bridge the gap in healthcare delivery for regional communities and First Nations peoples through active community engagement and growing partnerships with localised government and industry stakeholders,鈥� Professor Eades said.
Professor Maguire said he was looking forward to joining Curtin Medical School, which shares his vision of providing high quality, accessible and appropriate health care services to our most vulnerable populations.
鈥淎s a clinician whose heart is firmly 鈥榠n the bush鈥�, I鈥檓 excited to be joining 麻豆直播鈥檚 School of Medicine. The School鈥檚 innovative undergraduate program and strong links with our community will ensure we are well positioned to provide the next generation of doctors for Western Australia and our region,鈥� Professor Maguire said.
鈥淎s the School of Medicine prepares for its first graduating year at the end of 2021, I will be focused on supporting the School to not only provide high quality medical graduates but also to accompany and support these colleagues on their lifelong journey of clinical service, training and education.鈥�
Professor Maguire holds a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, has a public health qualification from James Cook University and a PhD from the University of Sydney relating to remote Aboriginal Australian respiratory health.
He is also the President-elect of the Adult Medicine Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare鈥檚 expert advisory group on asthma and other chronic respiratory conditions.
Professor Maguire took up the Associate Dean role this month.
