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Professor Gill graduated in medicine from the University of Tasmania in 1975 and after internship at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and further hospital experience at Geelong Hospital and in the Rotating Residency Program in Melbourne, entered general practice in the northern suburbs of Launceston in 1980. While in practice he gained a Diploma in Obstetrics, and the Fellowships of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He was one of the ten sponsored Master of Applied Epidemiology in General Practice Evaluation scholars from 1994–6 at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. In 2002 he was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Postgraduate Scholarship and completed his doctoral thesis in 2006. .. read more »

Val graduated in nursing from Deakin University in 1989 and after a graduate nurse year at Monash Medical Centre then worked as an oncology nurse/manager and case manager in various public and private hospitals in Melbourne over the next 10 years. During this time she completed a Graduate Diploma in Cancer Nursing and Palliative Care at La Trobe University and also a Graduate Diploma in Case Manager at The University of Melbourne. The next few years involved starting a family and working part time in a family business and on nurse bank at Peter McCallum Hospital... read more »