Professor Elizabeth Farmer, Dean, Graduate School of Medicine

Professor Elizabeth Ann (Liz) Farmer BSc (Hons), MBBS PhD FRACGP is the Dean of Medicine and Roberta Williams Chair in Medicine (general practice) at the University of Wollongong, Graduate School of Medicine.

She received her bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery and an honours degree in Biochemistry at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London. After emigrating and training in paediatrics, general practice and community health in South Australia, she was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). She completed her doctorate in medical education at Flinders University.

Professor Farmer’s previous appointments at Flinders University included a five-year term as inaugural Director of the Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development Program (PHC RED) a research capacity building program in primary care and a five year term as an Associate Professor in Medical Education and member of the executive team leading the process of curriculum reform to a graduate entry problem-based medical curriculum. In 1999 she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching at Flinders University.

Professor Farmer has a longstanding commitment to scientific endeavour, not only as a recognized academic leader in best evidence medical education but also through her immediate past role as Director of Education of the National Primary Care Collaboratives Program at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia where she has promoted the translation of research evidence into practice using systems change methodologies and rigorous measurement of patients’ health outcomes. She also has wide experience in the evaluation of health and educational programs most recently with the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency in South Australia.

Email addresses are in the form alias@uow.edu.au

Last reviewed: 12 August, 2009