Rowan Gillies
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Rowan Gillies is a doctor from Sydney, Australia. He is the youngest ever International Council President of the Nobel-Prize Winning Médecins Sans Frontières
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Educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduating with honours from the University of New South Wales, Dr Gillies is training to become a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. In January 2002 he became Australia
's MSF leader and was thereafter elected as international leader that year. He has worked on the field for MSF in some of the world's most troubled regions, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Beirut, Congo and Sri Lanka.
He was listed by The Age as one of "The 50 Australians Who Matter" in 2005.
Dr Rowan Gillies delivered the prestigious 52nd annual Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture
in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.
Rowan Gillies is a doctor from Sydney, Australia. He is the youngest ever International Council President of the Nobel-Prize Winning Médecins Sans Frontières
Médecins Sans Frontières
' , or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland...
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Educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduating with honours from the University of New South Wales, Dr Gillies is training to become a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. In January 2002 he became Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
's MSF leader and was thereafter elected as international leader that year. He has worked on the field for MSF in some of the world's most troubled regions, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Beirut, Congo and Sri Lanka.
He was listed by The Age as one of "The 50 Australians Who Matter" in 2005.
Dr Rowan Gillies delivered the prestigious 52nd annual Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture
Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture
The Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture is an annual free public Lecture hosted by the University of Queensland Medical Society in Brisbane....
in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.