Dr. Rosalie Shaw

Dr Rosalie Shaw trained as a teacher and a nurse before entering Monash Medical School at the age of 33. By the time she graduated she was committed to a career in palliative medicine and in 1981 established one of the first palliative care units in Australia at the Repatriation General Hospital in Perth. A decade later she accepted an invitation from Singapore to be involved in the development of palliative care in Asia. During her time in Singapore Dr Shaw was Medical Director of the Hospice Care Association and of Dover Park Hospice as well as a consultant with the Department of Palliative Medicine at the National Cancer Centre Singapore. For ten years from 1999 she was the Executive Director of Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) and travelled to more than 20 countries in the region in a teaching and advisory role. In 2010 she returned to Australia after 18 years overseas and is now a consultant physician with the Barwon Health palliative care team in Geelong.

Dr Shaw was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours in 2011 “for service to medicine, particularly through the Asia-Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network”.