by Jared Reed
Seven GPs have been named in the Australia Day Honours List for 2010 for their contributions to medicine and their work in other areas of public life.
Dr George Santoro AO is a second-generation doctor and practised as a GP for nearly 40 years in Richmond, Victoria. The former president of the Victorian AMA has also held positions on the boards of many Italian-Australian organisations.
GP-turned author and poet Dr Peter Goldsworthy has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to literature, arts administration, and to the community. Dr Goldsworthy graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1974 and his first novel, Maestro, was published in 1989. He has since written poetry, short stories, essays, and two operas and plays.
Dr Terence Horgan, from St Ives in NSW, was honoured the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his 30 years' fundraising through the Old Xaverians’ Association (Xavier College, Melbourne), for Jesuit missions in south-east Asia.
Other GPs named include:
- Dr Timothy Duncan Hannah OAM, of Bardon QLD
- Dr Keith Jacob Lipshut OAM, of Wangaratta VIC
- Dr John Douglas McKee OAM, of Bega NSW
- Dr Bruce Graham Menzies OAM, of Armidale NSW
Several medical specialists and researchers have also received Australia Day Honours, including: - virologist Professor Anthony Cunningham AO, of Sydney
- Professor Wendy Hoy AO, of the University of Queensland for research in renal medicine, and chronic disease
- oncologist Dr Michael Boyer AM, of Sydney
- rheumatologist Professor Peter Brooks AM
- psychiatrist Professor Philip Mitchell AM, of Sydney
- Melbourne paediatrician Professor Frank Shann AM
- Professor Gregory Whelan AM, an addiction specialist in Melbourne.
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