Author, Medical Writer & Publishing Consultant
Published Work
Contributor: The Australian Newspaper
Towards the end of 2017, I was invited by the literary editor of The Australian to become a specialty book reviewer of books about health, medicine and psychology. Please find below a selection of my reviews to date:
Vaccines keep disease on run
21 March 2020
Putting lives back together
14 September 2019
Woo-hoo: at last a teacher who can make maths fun
9 March 2019
Doctors’ stories: This is Going to Hurt, Also Human, Tell Me I’m OK
4 August 2018
The River of Consciousness by Oliver sacks
17 March 2018
Insights of a love story
15 Febuary 2020
Timeless insights into ageing explored in two new works
1 June 2019
Why it’s wise to trust your gut
10 November 2018
Friends more vital than we know
9 June 2018
Walter Isaacson on Leonardo da Vinci, the prophetic polymath
6 January 2018
New book by Lisa Forest
16 October 2020
Commissioned Book
Bill Gibson: Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon
March, 2017
This fascinating biography tells the story of how Bill Gibson transformed the lives of thousands with the bionic ear.
During his distinguished career as an ear, nose and throat surgeon, Emeritus Professor Bill Gibson AO gained a reputation as a world expert in Menière’s disease and cochlear implant surgery. In 1984, he restored the hearing of two young women who were some of the first to receive the commercialised bionic ear, pioneered by Professor Graeme Clark and his team in Melbourne in 1978. Three years later Professor Gibson operated on four-year-old Holly McDonell, the youngest child in the world to receive the bionic ear. Over the following decades, he performed more than 2000 cochlear implant operations, making him one of the most prolific surgeons in his field.
"Professor Bill Gibson is an outstanding man, a great humanitarian and deserving of this well-researched biography about his exceptional contribution to medicine."
Professor Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO
"The sterling efforts of my colleague, Bill Gibson, over many years will make him a role model for other surgeons."
Laureate Professor Emeritus Graeme Clark AC