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story by Cla ir e R ich a r d s o n
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ogether, these University of
Adelaide graduates are helping
to shape the historic move of
the Schools of Medicine and Nursing
to the new South Australian Health and
Biomedical Precinct (SAHBP) in the
city9s West End.
After graduating, all four went on to
further study and research in different
areas, and between them they have
earned countless awards and recognition
for their work. Today, they hold multiple
senior roles in clinical practice as well as
at the University.
They also share the desire to create
the best possible health care system
for South Australia and are passionately
pursuing this goal.
Professor Beilby specialised in general
practice and health system reform and is
still consulting today. He was one of ten
commissioners in the National Hospital
and Health Reform Commission in
2008–09.
He is also the Executive Dean for the
Faculty of Health Sciences, overseeing
teaching and research across medicine,
medical sciences, nursing, dentistry,
health sciences, psychology and
public health.
Associate Professor Griggs, inspired
through his work as a paramedic
throughout his degree, specialised in
anaesthesia, intensive care and aviation
medicine which led him into trauma,
retrieval and disaster recovery.
He is now the Director of Trauma
Services and Senior Consultant at the
RAH, Director, Retrieval Coordination for
MedSTAR Emergency Medical Retrieval,
the South Australian State Controller
(Health and Medical) for disasters, and a
Group Captain in the Royal Australian Air
Force Specialist Reserve (Medical).
Professor Maddern also continued in
academia after his ûrst degree before
being appointed Chair of Surgery at The
Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
He is currently Director of the Basil
Hetzel Research Institute and Director of
Surgery at the QEH and the RAH, Head of
Surgery and Coordinator of Rural Surgical
Services at the University of Adelaide, and
Surgical Director, Australian Safety and
Efûcacy Register of New Interventional
Procedures—Surgical, at the Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons.
Professor Faull specialised in
nephrological practice with a particular
interest in kidney transplantation. He
is now Deputy Dean and Director of
the Medical Program and is a Senior
Consultant in Nephrology at the Royal
Adelaide Hospital (RAH).
While all took different career paths after
graduation, Professor Faull remembers
that as students they were all
