{"id":9367,"date":"2022-05-27T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T04:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:29:17","slug":"vale-gus-galea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/tpch-newsletter\/vale-gus-galea","title":{"rendered":"Vale Gus Galea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7041 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/05\/gus-galea-b.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Gus Galea\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/601;\" \/>Vale Dr Gus Galea&nbsp;1926-2022<\/h2>\n<p>Dr Gus Galea was a pioneering cardiologist and has left a legacy that should be remembered and cherished. Gus was one of Australia\u2019s first Cardiologists, and the first Cardiologist to establish services in Queensland. In 1956, after training in London at the National Heart Hospital under luminaries such as Paul Wood, Maurice Campbell and Evan Bedford (Churchill\u2019s physician), he returned to Brisbane. Gus began work as a staff physician at the Brisbane General (later the RBWH) and then at the Children\u2019s Hospital. He conducted free clinics during this time at the Children\u2019s and Greenslopes Hospitals. However, it was in 1961 he began his association with the TPCH. Along with his friend Graeme Neilson he established the first Cardiology service at the Chermside Chest Hospital (to become the TPCH). This association would continue right up until his retirement in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>With a special interest in paediatric and congenital heart cardiology, Dr Galea was a forerunner in his field, performing Queensland\u2019s first the first balloon septostomy on a newborn baby in 1968. He also developed cardiac rehabilitation services and in 1961, the year he started at TPCH, co-authored and published an early text book \u201cA Guide to Cardiology\u201d. This went to a second edition in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Galea was a great mentor, role model, supporter and an incredibly astute clinician, with a wicked sense of humour. His knowledge of adult congenital heart disease was the result of a wealth of lived experiences over 60 years as a clinician. When Dr Galea spoke up to pass comment, the room paused to grasp the clinical pearls he always had time to share. He continued to impart his clinical wisdom as part of TPCH\u2019s cardiology team right into his ninth decade.<\/p>\n<p>Vale Gus Galea &#8211; a great Australian, pioneering cardiologist and an outstanding person.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed to by Prof Darren Walters and Dr Dorothy Radford.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Gus Galea was a pioneering cardiologist and has left a legacy that should be remembered and cherished. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":10446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tpch-newsletter"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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