Dr Gerry McLaren
Gerry McLaren is a senior physician with dual qualifications as a consultant in rehabilitation medicine and as a senior family physician. This means that he has maintained dual accreditation with the Royal Australian College of Physicians and with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners for the last almost five decades. His active clinical dual qualifications make him unique in Australasia.
Gerry has a solid reputation for integrity while aiming for clinical excellence with laughter and engagement. He brings a fresh approach to clinical problems, centred on active patient learning and cooperative family management. He is a family man and is part of an extended family network, which includes 12+1 grandchildren on his side and eight grandchildren on his partner’s side.
His interactions with families thus have a very practical focus.
In his consultant rehabilitation physician role, Gerry has been involved in managing some of the most complex clinical challenges in Australian society, often in remote or regional communities. For many decades he has worked with complicated diabetics, amputees and people with complex musculoskeletal disorders. He has a thorough knowledge of foot and leg biomechanics. Gerry has also had extensive involvement with people who have neurological problems, including traumatic and acquired brain injury or stroke survivors.
He also has a keen interest in paediatrics and complete vaccinations, dermatology and eye conditions, travel and exercise medicine plus mental health and complex patient management. He does not perform surgery or women’s health interventions.
In 2012 Gerry was the first rehabilitation physician to live in Central Australia and attempt to work side by side with impoverished communities to improve outcomes for some of the most disadvantaged people in our nation
Taking on clinical challenges has been a necessary part of his journey and Gerry has certainly put himself on the line.
At home Gerry is an adventure and landscape photographer with a focus on wilderness survival, alpine flora ecology and teaching young children. Perhaps this is a metaphor for surviving complex clinical challenges over time.
He works Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
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