Ferguson Glass Oration
The Ferguson-Glass Oration is named after Professor David Alexander Ferguson AM and Professor William Ivan Glass. In the early years, both Professor Ferguson AM and Professor Glass attended their jointly named lectures, and were duly acknowledged as the two Founding Fathers of academic occupational medicine in Australia and New Zealand.
Both Professor Ferguson AM and Professor Glass were pioneers of the discipline of occupational medicine in Australia and New Zealand, first through Australia and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM), then the Australasian College of Occupational Medicine and finally via the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Professor Michael Kidd
Chief Medical Officer, Australian Government department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Professor Michael Kidd AO is Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, based in the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. He is a general practitioner and a primary care and public health researcher, and has served as president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and president of the World Organization of Family Doctors. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and has held past research appointments at Monash University, the University of Sydney, Flinders University, the Australian National University, and the University of Toronto. He holds a current joint academic appointment as the Foundation Director of the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales, and as Professor of Global Primary Care with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.
