Elizabeth Whiting
Associate Professor Elizabeth Whiting is a geriatrician and general physician at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH). She completed her medical training in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin and then moved to Australia where she completed her physician training in Brisbane. She was appointed to the position of Director of Internal Medicine Service at TPCH before taking on the position of Executive Director Clinical Services in Metro North Hospital and Health Service. Reflecting a long standing commitment to education and the development of junior doctors, she has chaired the Advanced Training committee for Geriatric Medicine and the Adult Medicine Clinical Examination committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She also chaired the Geriatric Medicine Education and Training Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. She is passionate about improving patient care for older people. She led the Queensland Health Frail Older Person Collaborative which resulted in the statewide introduction of models of care to support care in emergency departments, inpatient wards and Residential Aged Care Facilities. Associate Professor Whiting is now leading the Reform Program for Queensland Health which is focussed on reforms that will enable sustainability of health services over the next decade.
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