Welcome New Council Members
Council welcomed five new members at the Annual General Meeting on 8 June 2021. Three nominated positions – John Scott (NZ) Chrys Pulle (QLD) and Sue Kurrle (NSW) and two new cop-opted members – Lyndal Newton (NSW), Chloe Furst (SA).
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Dr Chrys Pulle MBBS FRACP Dr Pulle was President of Qld Division of Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine between 2017-2021. He was secretary to the division for four years prior. Dr Pulle represented ANZSGM (Qld) at State Parliamentary Inquiry to Aged Care, End of Life, Palliative Care and Voluntary Assisted Dying. He has also worked with AMA Qld in representing Society’s position for these issues. Dr Pulle is a Qld representative for Australia New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR). He is Chair of Dementia Trials Australia (DTAus) – the key body in promoting, facilitating and coordinating both commercially-sponsored and investigator-initiated dementia and cognition trials in Australia. He works as a Staff Specialist Geriatrician who specialises in Orthogeriatrics and Cognitive Impairment. He is Clinical Director of Internal Medicine Dementia Research Unit at The Prince Charles Hospital (Brisbane). |
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Professor Susan Kurrle Sue’s recent extracurricular work has included involvement with the International Emmy award winning ABC series ‘Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds’, and being the Medical Adviser to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. She is also on the Commonwealth’s Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Advisory Council, and chairs the Cognitive Impairment Advisory Group for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. She is very keen to be succession planning and wants to encourage young geriatricians to consider work outside capital cities. She is also working on how to make it possible to combine clinical work with practical research, and how to partner with non-government organisations and aged care providers to improve care for older people. |
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Dr John Scott Dr John Scott trained in Geriatric and General Medicine in New Zealand and currently works in hospital practice at North Shore Hospital in Auckland. He has held leadership positions including Service Clinical Director and Specialty Head of Division for the Waitemata District Health Board, the largest provider of hospital and health services in New Zealand. He has been a member of the Advanced Training Committee in Geriatric Medicine (NZ) and was on the Executive of the NZGS (New Zealand Geriatrics Society) prior to its amalgamation with the then ASGM to form the ANZSGM. He is currently divisional president of the New Zealand division of the ANZSGM. His interests include the organisation and development of health services, in particular community based services and the provision of services to underserved populations. His interests include tramping (or bushwalking, or hiking, depending which country he is in) and trail running. |
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Dr Lyndal Newton
Her current clinical research interest is in delirium and dementia pathophysiology and management with particular interest in the management of the Behavioural and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia. Dr Newton has further higher qualifications in critical care and university teaching and education. Dr Newton is the Clinical Lead for Medicine at Northern Beaches Macquarie University Clinical School and a Senior Lecturer with the University of NSW. |
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Dr Chloe Furst, MBBS, FRACP, FAChPM Dr Chloe Furst is a dual trained geriatrician and palliative care physician working across both specialties within SA Health. She is the chair of the South Australian branch of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine and a clinical lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She has a special interest in geriatric oncology, capacity, and end of life care and the ethics around these complex issues. |
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