{"id":1520,"date":"2021-06-15T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T08:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2021-10-18T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T00:19:52","slug":"happy-retirement-to-professor-michael-pender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/2021\/06\/happy-retirement-to-professor-michael-pender","title":{"rendered":"Happy retirement to Professor Michael Pender"},"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;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_1546\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1546 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/prof-pender-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/prof-pender-b-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/prof-pender-b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/06\/prof-pender-b.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/600;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Michael Pender<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After 34 years working as part of Team Royal, Professor Michael Pender is farewelling his team to embark on retirement.<\/p>\n<p>In his work as a neurologist, Professor Pender helped establish the first Multiple Sclerosis clinic in Queensland, worked as a Clinical Fellow at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, and received multiple academic honours and awards for his research into Multiple Sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>His team describes him as humble, kind and compassionate, with a passion for words and details.<\/p>\n<p>One colleague said, \u201cHe appreciated his team and acknowledged everyone for their contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Pender said he is hoping to spend his retirement with his family, reading, swimming and gardening.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations and all the best in your retirement, Professor Pender!<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 34 years working as part of Team Royal, Professor Michael Pender is farewelling his team to embark on retirement.  In his work as a neurologist, Professor Pender helped establish the first Multiple Sclerosis clinic in Queensland, worked as a Clinical Fellow at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, and received multiple academic honours and awards for his research into Multiple Sclerosis.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal","tag-rbwh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}