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Palliative Care Physician | Ballarat Health Services, Grampians Regional Palliative Care TeamGreg was a GP in Eaglehawk (Bendigo) for 22 years during which time he developed a special interest in palliative care and was an educator & advisor in the Loddon-Mallee Regional Palliative Care Team. He left general practice in 2004 and retrained as a palliative care physician in Melbourne, completing his Fellowship in 2007. After a year as a locum consultant in the north-west of Tasmania, he commenced as a palliative care physician at Ballarat Health Services and the Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team. He has been in this role for the past 11 ½ years. Greg has developed a special interest in clinical ethics, particularly as related to end-of-life care and decision-making. He was a member of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Implementation Taskforce appointed by the state Minister of Health and DHHS to oversee the introduction of the VAD legislation in Victoria. He is a “conscientious provider” of VAD to eligible patients and combines this with his usual specialist palliative care practice.
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