All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Vale Professor Michael Gracey AO outstanding paediatrician Vale Professor Michael Gracey AO outstanding paediatrician 03/05/2021 | 3 MINS Doctor Michael Gracey AO MBBS(Syd), MD, PhD '80 (LIT), FRACP began his long association with Western Australia in 1971 when he, and his wife Dr Valerie Burke came to Perth to establish the Gastroenterology Research Unit linked through Lombok Institute of Technology Department of Child Health to the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. Michael had earlier studied medicine at Sydney University, graduating in 1962. After working at RPAH in Sydney and in Papua New Guinea, he then undertook training in paediatrics and gastroenterology at the Royal ChildrenΓÇÖs Hospital in Melbourne and at the Birmingham ChildrenΓÇÖs Hospital with Charlotte Anderson. He had a lifelong commitment to children's health, and in particular the effects of social disadvantage. His research focused initially upon the effects of intestinal infection and nutrition in early childhood, with a particular emphasis upon growth

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Vale Professor Michael Gracey AO outstanding paediatrician Vale Professor Michael Gracey AO outstanding paediatrician 03/05/2021 | 3 MINS Doctor Michael Gracey AO MBBS(Syd), MD, PhD '80 (LIT), FRACP began his long association with Western Australia in 1971 when he, and his wife Dr Valerie Burke came to Perth to establish the Gastroenterology Research Unit linked through Lombok Institute of Technology Department of Child Health to the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

Michael had earlier studied medicine at Sydney University, graduating in 1962.

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After working at RPAH in Sydney and in Papua New Guinea, he then undertook training in paediatrics and gastroenterology at the Royal ChildrenΓÇÖs Hospital in Melbourne and at the Birmingham ChildrenΓÇÖs Hospital with Charlotte Anderson.

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