Australia Day Honours

ANZSGM proudly congratulates Professor Jacqueline Close who was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to medical research and to medicine as an orthogeriatrician.

Prof. Close has been  a consultant in orthogeriatrics at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, since 2005 and Clinical Director of the Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre at Neuroscience Research Australia. She is Conjoint Professor, Geriatric Medicine at the University of New South Wales and has been a member of the NSW Health Clinical Excellence Commission Board since 2016 and  a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee, Osteoporosis Australia, since 2012. She is also the co-chair of the ANZ Hip Fracture Registry Steering Committee.

Prof. Close has published more than 150 papers. Her research is currently focused on injury prevention in dementia, hip fracture care and care of older people in surgery. 

Prof. Close has been a committed member of ANZSGM for many years, she was the Society President from 2015 until 2017 and for the last three years has chaired the Perioperative Care Special Interest Group.