Gordian Ward Fulde was born on 1948 and is an Australian emergency medicine specialist, the founder of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and was the director of the emergency department of St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney for 35 years, retiring in 2018.
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Gordian Fulde was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2016.
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Gordian Fulde migrated to Australia with his parents and older brother, Lothar, when he was one year old, settling in Bellevue Hill, a suburb in Sydney's east.
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Gordian Fulde studied medicine at the University of Sydney and completed his internship at St Vincent's Hospital.
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Gordian Fulde trained in general surgery, but after taking up a position at Sutherland Hospital that involved supervising the hospital's emergency department, he discovered that he preferred emergency medicine to surgery.
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Gordian Fulde was the third person to register for the examinations in emergency medicine established by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in the United Kingdom in 1983, and the first person to pass them.
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Gordian Fulde founded the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 1984.
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Gordian Fulde was appointed the Director of Emergency at St Vincent's Hospital in 1983 and held the role until his retirement in 2018; at which time he was the longest-serving director of an Australian emergency department.
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Gordian Fulde was the director of the Sydney Hospital emergency department and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of New South Wales and the University of Notre Dame Australia.
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Gordian Fulde was a strong proponent of the Sydney lockout laws introduced in 2014 to combat alcohol-induced violence.
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Gordian Fulde was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2016.
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Gordian Fulde met his wife Lesley Forster when she was studying medicine at UNSW.
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Gordian Fulde is the inaugural Dean of Rural Medicine of Charles Sturt University.