ProfessorGerard Gill

Professor Gerard Gill is the Alfred Felton Chair in General Practice for Rural
and Regional Victoria at Deakin University. This chair is the School of
Medicine's first sponsored chair and was generously endowed by the Trustees of
The Felton Bequest.

Professor Gill graduated in medicine from the University of Tasmania in 1975
and after internship at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and further hospital
experience at Geelong Hospital and in the Rotating Residency Program in
Melbourne, entered general practice in the northern suburbs of Launceston in
1980. He remained in this same practice until he accepted his Deakin
appointment in 2011.

While in practice he gained a Diploma in Obstetrics, and the Fellowships of
the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australasian
Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He was one of the ten sponsored Master of
Applied Epidemiology in General Practice Evaluation scholars from 1994-6 at
the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian
National University. In 2002 he was awarded a National Health and Medical
Research Council Medical Postgraduate Scholarship and completed his doctoral
thesis in 2006.

As well as these academic pursuits, Professor Gill has been active in a number
of medical organisations, having been a member of the Australian Medical
Association Council of General Practice and of the Council of the Royal
Australian College of General Practitioners. He was active in founding the
division of general practice in Northern Tasmania and was, until he commenced
his doctoral studies, a member of the divisional board. He has been an active
member of the Army Reserve since 1982, and of St John Ambulance having joined
in 1986 as a divisional surgeon. While in Launceston he had a long association
with the University of Tasmania, both with the Discipline of General Practice
and the University Department of Rural Health, and gained considerable
experience as a teacher and examiner for medical undergraduate and
postgraduate education.

Professor Gill is member of the Deakin University Human Research Ethics
Committee Geelong Panel. He has been involved in medical postgraduate
education in Geelong both within general practice and the wider medical
community.

Professor Gill regards himself as a true generalist, bag carrying GP. His
research activities focus on the care of disadvantaged populations and the
elderly, medical workforce planning, the development of young GP researchers
and immunisation.

Professor Gill hopes to inspire Deakin medical graduates to follow his example
and live professionally and personally satisfying lives in regional and rural
Victoria, while providing high-quality care to their communities and remaining
open to change.