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, occupation = Doctor , years_active = 1971present , era = , employer = St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney , organization = , agent = , known_for = , notable_works = , style = , height = , television = Kings Cross ER: St Vincent's Hospital , title = , term = , predecessor = , successor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charges = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = Lesley Forster , partner = , children = 2 , parents = , mother = Marie Luise Fulde , father = Edwald Adolf Oskar Fulde , relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = Senior Australian of the Year (2016) , website = , module = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Gordian Ward Fulde (born 1948) is an Australian

emergency medicine Emergency medicine is the Medical specialty, medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or Injury, injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians (often called “ER doctors” in the United States) continuous ...

specialist, the founder of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and was the director of the emergency department of St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney for 35 years, retiring in 2018. He was named

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in 2016.

Early life

Fulde was born in Germany in 1948 to Edwald Adolf Oskar Fulde, a

thoracic surgeon Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal struc ...

, and Marie Luise Fulde, a

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. He migrated to Australia with his parents and older brother, Lothar, when he was one year old, settling in Bellevue Hill, a suburb in Sydney's east.

Career

Fulde studied medicine at the

and completed his internship at St Vincent's Hospital. He trained in

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, but after taking up a position at

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that involved supervising the hospital's emergency department, he discovered that he preferred emergency medicine to surgery. He was the third person to register for the examinations in emergency medicine established by the

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in the United Kingdom in 1983, and the first person to pass them. He founded the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 1984. Fulde was appointed the Director of Emergency at St Vincent's Hospital in 1983 and held the role until his retirement in 2018; at which time he was the longest-serving director of an Australian emergency department. St Vincent's Hospital is regarded as having one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia and was the setting of reality television series '' Kings Cross ER'', in which Fulde featured prominently. He was also the director of the

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emergency department and a professor of emergency medicine at the

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and the

University of Notre Dame Australia The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) is a national Roman Catholic private university with campuses in and in Western Australia and Sydney in New South Wales. The university also has eight clinical schools as part of its school of med ...

. He was a strong proponent of the

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introduced in 2014 to combat alcohol-induced violence. Fulde was named

in 2016. Fulde was made an Officer of the

Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

in 2017 for "distinguished service to emergency medicine as a clinician and administrator, to medical education, and to the community as an advocate for a range of public health issues."

Personal life

Fulde met his wife, Lesley Forster, when she was studying medicine. Their daughters, Sascha and Tiffany Fulde, are also doctors; one is an emergency specialist and the other is an

anaesthetist Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fulde, Gordian 1948 births Living people German emigrants to Australia Medical doctors from Sydney 20th-century Australian medical doctors People from the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) Sydney Medical School alumni University of New South Wales faculty University of Notre Dame Australia people Australian emergency physicians Australian healthcare managers Officers of the Order of Australia