Professor Alan Bruce Chater has lived and worked in the rural town of Theodore, Queensland, Australia as Medical Superintendent of the local hospital and principal of Theodore Medical Centre for 44 years. He has recently handed on his practice to a very talented young doctor and her team.
He is Chair of Rural Wonca (World Organization of General Practitioners Working Party on Rural Practice) and Mayne Professor and Head of the Discipline of Rural and Remote Medicine at University of Queensland,
He was the founding convenor of the Rural Doctors Associations of Queensland and Australia and the founding Chair of the Australian National Rural Health Alliance and inaugural Chair of the Statewide Rural and Remote Clinical Network Queensland Health. He was, for 10 years, on the Australian Independent Hospital Pricing Authority Board.
He remains grounded in the needs of rural communities and now resides in the small rural community of Maleny closer to his grown children and grandchildren .
He has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to Rural Medicine and his rural community.
