Mr Mitchell Giles

Student Representative on Council - Flinders University

Mitchell Giles is currently completing his third year of the Flinders University graduate entry medical program in the Riverland PRCC, where he is based in Waikerie on the Murray River. Growing up in the coastal town of Port Lincoln, he migrated to Adelaide to complete his secondary schooling at Pembroke School.

In 2007 he completed his Bachelor of Health Science, completing his Honours thesis on Isolated Limb Infusion for Stage III Melanoma with the University of Adelaide’s Department of Surgery.

Over the past two years, Mitch has worked on a bid for the AMSA executive in 2008, as well as Co-Chairing the Flinders University Surgical Society in 2009. His interests have thus far being in all aspects of the health care system, with particular interest in rural and remote medicine as well as research and innovation in the prevention and treatment of melanoma.

Outside of medicine, Mitch is an avid golfer as well as enjoying the great fishing that Port Lincoln has to offer.