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Staff - Professor Paul Worley

Professor Paul Worley
MBBS (Adel), FRACGP, D.ObstRACOG

Director
Flinders University Rural Clinical School
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001

Phone (08) 8204 5017
Fax (08) 8204 5800
Email: Paul.Worley@flinders.edu.au


Biographical Summary

Professor Paul Worley, MBBS (Adel), FRACGP, FACRRM, DRANZCOG

Paul Worley studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1984. He married Liz in 1985 and they now have 4 children. He was in solo rural practice at Lameroo, in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, and then moved to a group rural practice at Clare, a wine growing area in the mid north of the State. In 1992 he was elected President of the Rural Doctors Association of South Australia. In 1994 he took up appointment as Senior Lecturer in Rural Health at Flinders University of South Australia. As well as maintaining an active clinical workload in both rural and urban practice, he has been responsible for coordinating the rapid expansion of Flinders University’s rural education programs in undergraduate and postgraduate rural practice. He is the Academic Director on the Board of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. His passion is to encourage Medical Schools to see that their obligation to the communities they serve is integral to their academic leadership responsibility. In 2001, he was appointed Professor and Director for the Flinders University Rural Clinical School and Editor of Rural and Remote Health, the International Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy.


Paul and Liz Worley

Updated January 25, 2007