Peter Brooks Named Master of American College of Rheumatology
ATLANTA – Peter M. Brooks, MD; professor and director of the Australian Health Workforce Institute at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, was named a Master of the American College of Rheumatology at a session of the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting, on November 7 in Atlanta.
The member designation of Master is conferred by the board of directors of the College on ACR members, age 65 or older, who have made outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology through scholarly achievement and/or service to their patients, students and profession.
Dr. Brooks was born in England and moved to Australia at age 10, where he completed his medical education at Monash University in Melbourne. He spent three years in Glasgow, Scotland with Watson Buchanan, MD, before returning to Tasmania to pursue academic rheumatology. After a period in Adelaide, he was appointed Foundation Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney in 1983, moving to the University of New South Wales in 1991, and taking the position of executive dean of health sciences at the University of Queensland in 1998, a position he held until 2009. In 2010, he moved to the University of Melbourne to establish a new research institute focusing on health workforce reform and building on his experience with team care in management of rheumatic diseases.
The American College of Rheumatology is an international professional medical society that represents more than 8,000 rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals around the world. Its mission is to advance rheumatology. The ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting is the premier meeting in rheumatology. For more information about the meeting, visit www.rheumatology.org/education. Follow the meeting on twitter by using the official hashtag: #ACR2010.
