Dr Rodney Pearce
MB BS, FAMA

Federal Councillor

Dr Rod Pearce trained in Adelaide and worked at the RAH, TQEH and Modbury Hospital(s) before starting work in general practice. His present urban and rural general practice work includes regular consulting, aged care and home visits, hospital consulting and Medical Officer for Health to local government and other organizations. His practice is one of the first in SA to train young doctors in their first postgraduate (intern) years and prevocational years (PGPPP) in the community and he continues to be an active supervisor to GP registrars through the regional training program.

Dr Pearce currently holds positions on the board(s) of the Influenza Specialist Group, AGPAL/QIP, National General Practice Supervisors Association, and GP Partners (a division of general practice). In 2008 he was appointed by the Health Minister the Hon. Nicola Roxon to the External Reference Group to develop Australia’s National Primary Heath Care Strategy for the national health reforms.

In 2010 he was reappointed to the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), the group who produce the Australian Immunisation Handbook, and maintains a keen local and national interest in vaccination programs, often asked to comment in the media on immunisation issues.

Dr Pearce was president of the AMA(SA) 1998-2000 and GP representitive on the Federal AMA and Chair of AMA Council of General Practice for 3 terms from 2004–2010. He is a Fellow of the AMA and received the AMA(SA) Presidents award in 2008.