Professor Andrew Bonney, Roberta Williams Chair of General Practice

MBBS (Hons) MFM (Clin) PhD DRANZCOG FRACGP

Professor Andrew Bonney is a general practitioner, Roberta Williams Chair of General Practice at the Graduate School of Medicine and an active research member of the Centre for Health Initiatives at the University of Wollongong. He has been in clinical practice on the NSW south coast since 1992 as a GP to a rural town and Aboriginal community. He has been involved in undergraduate and post-graduate general practice education since 1997. He spent six years as programme director for the Koori Health Programme in the Shoalhaven Division of General Practice.

He has completed a Master of Family Medicine (Clinical) degree through Monash University, and a PhD through the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Wollongong. He has been published, and had conference papers accepted, both nationally and internationally on aspects of primary care, and is on the review panels of national and international primary care and medical education related journals.

Prof. Bonney’s personal research focus has been on inter-personal aspects of patient care, and their impact on behaviours and health care systems. He was chief investigator on a national study into the responses of older patients to general practice trainees. However, he maintains a broad range of research interests in primary health care. He is currently involved in a diverse range of primary health care related projects and is Director of the Illawarra and Southern Practice Research Network (ISPRN).

Top Publications

• Bonney, A. D., Jones, S. C., Phillipson, L. & Iverson, D. C. General practice registrars: Attitudes of older patients. Australian Family Physician. 2010; 39 (6): 419-424.
• Bonney, A. D. & Farmer, E. Health care reform: can we maintain personal continuity. Australian Family Physician. 2010; 39 (7): 455-456.
• Bonney A, Phillipson L, Reis S, Jones SC, Iverson D. Patients' attitudes to general practice registrars: a review of the literature. Educ Prim Care. 2009 Sep;20(5):371-378.
• Bonney A, Farmer EA. Will the NHHRC recommendations drive quality performance? Aust Fam Physician. 2009 Nov;38(11):913-4.
• Bonney A, Phillipson L, Jones SC, Iverson D. Older patients' attitudes to general practice registrars - A qualitative study. Aust Fam Physician. 2009 Nov;38(11):927-31.

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