Professor
Richard Smallwood
AO
Chief Medical Officer
In office
1 November 1999 – 30 June 2003
Preceded byJudith Whitworth
Succeeded byJohn Horvath
Personal details
Born
Richard Alan Smallwood

(1937-01-28) 28 January 1937
NationalityAustralian
EducationUniversity of Melbourne
ProfessionMedical doctor

Richard Alan Smallwood AO (born 28 January 1937)[1] is an Australian doctor and Chief Medical Officer of Australia between 1999 and 2003.[2]

Smallwood graduated from University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1960 and Doctor of Medicine in 1964.[2] He then trained at Royal Free Hospital in London and at Boston University School of Medicine. He returned to Australia in 1970 and took a role at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne in Melbourne.[2]

Smallwood taught at the University of Melbourne for thirty years and is a Professor Emeritus at the University. He has published over 250 papers, mainly focused on the liver and liver disease. He was president of Royal Australasian College of Physicians from 2006 to 2008. In his time as Chief Medical Officer, Smallwood was responsible for addressing public concern about bioterrorism and the SARS epidemic.[2]

Smallwood was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology, to research through the National Health and Medical Research Council, and to education".[3] He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for "service to public health especially as the Chief Medical Officer".[4]

References

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Australia. ConnectWeb. 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Emeritus Richard Alan Smallwood AO". University of Melbourne. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) entry for Professor Richard Alan Smallwood". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 9 June 1997. Retrieved 15 June 2020. service to medicine, particularly in the field of gastroenterology, to research through the National Health and Medical Research Council, and to education
  4. ↑ "Centenary Medal entry for Professor Richard Alan Smallwood". It's an Honour, Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 January 2001. Retrieved 15 June 2020. For service to public health especially as the Chief Medical Officer


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