When disaster strikes, GP s are frontline

Study at Newcastle brought her into contact with a trio of legends: Professor Beverly Raphael, who at the time was Foundation Professor of Psychiatry at the university; Professor David Maddison, a psychiatrist with a holistic communityaware preventive focus to medicine that was groundbreaking at the time; and Professor Stephen Leeder, “who ensured we were planted in the community and tasked to understand the local perspective on local need and assist”.