Professor Michael Kidd

GPSN Patron
MBBS (Melbourne) MD (Monash) DCCH (Flinders)
Dip. RACOG FRACGP FACHI FAFPM (Honorary)
FHKCFP (Honorary) FRNZCGP (Honorary) MAICD

Professor Michael Kidd is the patron of the General Practice Student Network (GPSN). After studying medicine at the University of Melbourne, Prof. Kidd entered the General Practice training program in 1985. He joined Monash University as an academic GP Fellow and completed his Doctorate of Medicine there in 1995. Prof. Kidd’s doctoral research focused on the challenges in GP education and innovative technology-based methods of teaching.

In 1995, he was appointed Professor of General Practice at Sydney University and Head of Department by 1998. In 2002, Prof. Kidd was elected President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a position he held for two terms until 2006. He has chaired a number of national and international committees working on a range of topics, including health informatics and HIV/AIDS.

Prof. Kidd’s research interests include General Practice, medical informatics, health policy, medical education, safety and quality in primary care and the primary care management of HIV and hepatitis C. He has co-authored the textbook Health Informatics: an Overview and authored the chapters on computers and HIV/AIDS in the Oxford Textbook of Primary Care.

GPSN is proud to welcome such a distinguished figurehead of Australian General Practice as the inaugural patron of GPSN.