Michael Kidd (physician)
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Professor Michael Kidd AM, MD, FAHMS, FRACGP |
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| President World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) | |
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In office June 2013 – November 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Roberts |
| Succeeded by | Amanda Howe |
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11 November 1959 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Melbourne University |
Michael Richard Kidd AM (born 11 November 1959) is an Australian general practitioner. He is a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and is the immediate past president of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA).
Michael Kidd was educated at Belle Vue Primary School, and later Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne. In 1983, he obtained MBBS (Hons) at the University of Melbourne, a postgraduate diploma in Community Child Health at Flinders University in 1989, a Doctorate of Medicine in medical education at Monash University in 1995, and he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 1989.
Kidd was President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners from 2002 to 2006. He was Head of the Department of General Practice at The University of Sydney between 1998 and 2009. In 2009 he was appointed as an Honorary Professor with the School of Medicine at The University of Sydney. From 2009 to 2016, he served as the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University with responsibility for the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing and Midwifery, and the School of Health Sciences. In 2017 he was appointed as Professor of Global Primary Care with the Southgate Institute for Health, Equity and Society at Flinders University, and as Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has been a member of the board of directors of beyondblue since 2011. He served ten years as a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Biobank Research Project based at Oxford University. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Chair of the advocacy organisation Doctors for the Environment Australia. He served as World President of WONCA from June 2013 to November 2016.
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