Biography
Professor Gerard Gill is the Alfred Felton Chair in General Practice for Rural and Regional Victoria at Deakin University. This chair is the School of Medicine’s first sponsored chair and was generously endowed by the Trustees of The Felton Bequest.
Professor Gill graduated in medicine from the University of Tasmania in 1975 and after internship at the Royal Hobart Hospital, and further hospital experience at Geelong Hospital and in the Rotating Residency Program in Melbourne, entered general practice in the northern suburbs of Launceston in 1980. He remained in this same practice until he accepted his Deakin appointment in 2011.
While in practice he gained a Diploma in Obstetrics, and the Fellowships of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He was one of the ten sponsored Master of Applied Epidemiology in General Practice Evaluation scholars from 1994–6 at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. In 2002 he was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Postgraduate Scholarship and completed his doctoral thesis in 2006.
As well as these academic pursuits, Professor Gill has been active in a number of medical organisations, having been a member of the Australian Medical Association Council of General Practice and of the Council of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He was active in founding the division of general practice in Northern Tasmania and was, until he commenced his doctoral studies, a member of the divisional board. He has been an active member of the Army Reserve since 1982, and of St John Ambulance having joined in 1986 as a divisional surgeon. While in Launceston he had a long association with the University of Tasmania, both with the Discipline of General Practice and the University Department of Rural Health, and gained considerable experience as a teacher and examiner for medical undergraduate and postgraduate education.
Professor Gill is member of the Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee Geelong Panel. He has been involved in medical postgraduate education in Geelong both within general practice and the wider medical community.
Professor Gill regards himself as a true generalist, bag carrying GP. His research activities focus on the care of disadvantaged populations and the elderly, medical workforce planning, the development of young GP researchers and immunisation.
Professor Gill hopes to inspire Deakin medical graduates to follow his example and live professionally and personally satisfying lives in regional and rural Victoria, while providing high-quality care to their communities and remaining open to change.
Read more on Gerard's profileKnowledge areas
General Practice
Public Health
Substance Abuse Treatment
Military Medicine
Care of the Elderly
Medical Workforce Planning
Medical Education
Publications
Clara Marquina, Jedidiah Morton, Tom Brett, Melanie Lloyd, Jan Radford, Clare Heal, Charlotte Hespe, Gerard Gill, David Sullivan, Ella Zomer, Ian Li, Jing Pang, Gerald Watts, Zanfina Ademi
(2023), Vol. 16, pp. 267-274, Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, Baltimore, Md., C1
I Li, R Watts, T Brett, J Radford, C Heal, G Gill, C Hespe, C Vargas-Garcia, D Sullivan, A Vickery, J Pang, D Arnold-Reed, D Chan, G Watts
(2022), Vol. 51, pp. 604-609, Australian Journal of General Practice, Melbourne, Vic., C1
R Skoss, T Brett, C Bulsara, J Radford, C Heal, G Gill, C Hespe, C Vargas-Garcia, I Li, D Sullivan, A Vickery, J Pang, D Arnold-Reed, G Watts
(2022), Vol. 51, pp. 687-694, Australian Journal of General Practice, Australia, C1
Improving detection and management of familial hypercholesterolaemia in Australian general practice
T Brett, D Chan, J Radford, C Heal, G Gill, C Hespe, C Vargas-Garcia, C Condon, B Sheil, I Li, D Sullivan, A Vickery, J Pang, D Arnold-Reed, G Watts
(2021), Vol. 107, pp. 1213-1219, Heart, London, Eng., C1
C Bulsara, T Brett, J Radford, C Heal, G Gill, C Hespe, C Vargas-Garcia, I Li, D Sullivan, A Vickery, J Pang, D Arnold-Reed, D Chan, G Watts
(2021), Vol. 50, pp. 634-640, Australian Journal of General Practice, East Melbourne, Vic., C1
Growing and retaining general practice research leaders in Australia: how can we do better?
M van Driel, L Deckx, G Cooke, M Pirotta, G Gill, T Winzenberg
(2017), Vol. 46, pp. 757-762, Australian family physician, East Melbourne, Vic., C1
S Mansfield, F Quirk, K von Treuer, G Gill
(2016), Vol. 40, pp. 129-135, Australian health review, Collingwood, Vic., C1
The telehealth skills, training, and implementation project: an evaluation protocol
A Bonney, P Knight-Billington, J Mullan, M Moscova, S Barnett, D Iverson, D Saffioti, E Eastland, M Guppy, K Weston, I Wilson, J Hudson, D Pond, G Gill, C Hespe
(2015), Vol. 4, pp. 1-11, JMIR research protocols, Toronto, Ont., C1
G Gill, P Butt, M Reade, J Crozier, A Williams, T Thomas, B Flint, G Matthews, N Duff, G Brown, A Chambers, B Courtenay, D Innes, B Malley
(2015), Vol. 161, pp. 336-340, Journal of the royal army medical corps, London, Eng., C1-1
Study design of ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE): A randomized, controlled trial
R Grimm, J McNeil, W Applegate, L Beilin, S Espinoza, C Johnston, B Kirpach, K Margolis, A Murray, M Nelson, C Reid, R Shah, E Storey, A Tonkin, P Wilson, R Wolfe, R Woods, W Abhayaratna, D Ames, L Cobiac, G Donnan, P Gibbs, R Head, H Krum, D Ives, A Tonkin, M Jelnik, M Malik, J Williamson, C Eaton, J Weissfeld, F MacRae, L Rodriguez, A Newman, J Demons, B Workman, E Wood, S Satterfield, J Lockery, R Shah, B Radziszewska, A Thomas, G Gill, C Jackson, M Kidd, G Russell
(2013), Vol. 36, pp. 555-564, CONTEMPORARY CLINICAL TRIALS, United States, C1-1
Did general practice health assessments of older Australians improve equity?
G Gill, D Geraghty, D FitzGerald
(2008), Vol. 32, pp. 488-492, Australian health review, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1
General practitioners' attitudes toward complementary therapies
G Easthope, B Tranter, G Gill
(2000), Vol. 51, pp. 1555-1561, Social Science and Medicine, England, C1-1
Acupuncture in Australian general practice: patient characteristics
G Easthope, G Gill, J Beilby, B Tranter
(1999), Vol. 170, pp. 259-262, The Medical journal of Australia, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
Acupuncture in Australian general practice: practitioner characteristics
G Easthope, J Beilby, G Gill, B Tranter
(1998), Vol. 169, pp. 197-200, Medical journal of Australia, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
VALUE OF THE LATERAL RADIOLOGIC VIEW OF THE CHEST IN CHILDREN WITH ACUTE PULMONARY ILLNESS
T LAMME, M NIJHOUT, D CADMAN, R MILNER, C ZYLAK, J JACOBS, G GILL, J MCNAMEE
(1986), Vol. 134, pp. 353-356, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, C1-1
Total blood lead levels in petrol vendors
P Moore, S Pridmore, G Gill
(1976), Vol. 1, pp. 438-440, Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, N.S.W., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
An intervention to improve the detection and management of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in primary care
Prof Tom Brett, A/Prof Diane Arnold-Reed, Prof Gerald Watts, A/Prof David Sullivan, Prof Alistair Vickery, Dr Ian Li, Prof Clare Heal, A/Prof Charlotte Hespe, A/Prof Jan Radford, Prof Gerard Gill
NHMRC - Partnership Project
- 2020: $37,282
- 2019: $20,684
- 2018: $50,383
Other Public Sector Funding
Primary Health Care Research - Knowledge Infrastructure Enabling Grant
Prof Gerard Gill, Prof Brendan Crotty
DHA - Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) - Knowledge Infrastructure Enabling Grant Scheme (KIEGS) - Department of Health and Ageing
- 2011: $45,420
NBN Telehealth Skills Training and Implementation Project
Prof Gerard Gill, Prof Andrew Bonney
NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Program - DEEWR
- 2014: $2,818
- 2013: $6,575
Industry and Other Funding
Health literacy in general practice: Incidence, challenges, potential
Prof Gerard Gill, Dr Anita Peerson, Dr Mark Kennedy, Prof Evelyne de Leeuw
Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Grant - Research
- 2011: $23,866
The Western Victorian Practice Nurse Study
Prof Gerard Gill, Prof Daryl Pedler, Prof Peter Harvey
Western Alliance
- 2018: $6,840
- 2017: $15,962
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report