Join us on Wednesday the 10th of July for the next instalment of our Wednesday Lunchtime Lecture Series, "A History of the Hospital at Greenslopes" presented by Prof Chris Strakosch.
About Chris Strakosch
Chris was born in the small factory town of Smithtown in NSW with his father, a veterinary surgeon, being a Jewish refugee from the Nazis. His fathers first wife was lost in the war and his second wife, Chris’s mother, was from a family of English origin. As the eldest son of a Jewish father, Chris studied Medicine at the University of Sydney and passed the Physician exam at Royal North Shore Hospital. He came up to Queensland as Chief Medical Registrar at RGH(G) to train in Endocrinology under Professor Richard Gordon, where he completed a Doctoral Thesis on Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders then went overseas to complete his clinical training, somewhat to the consternation of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He returned to Greenslopes in 1983 to take up a temporary appointment as a Senior Lecturer at the Greenslopes Campus of the University of Queensland. Since then Chris been a visiting endocrinologist and is now a part time Associate Professor of Medicine and Supervisor of Undergraduate Medicine at Greenslopes.
Chris has been honoured to be able to assist in the care of the veterans of the wars in which Australia has been engaged. When he started at Greenslopes there were still a few Boer War veterans, but as time has gone on, they, and veterans of the First and Second World Wars have slipped away. The hospital still remembers its military past; wards are named after VC winners and War Widows and the Anzac Day service attracts more attendees then does the service in the city.
