Alex Reid
04-11 2021 06:05
wrote:
Message from the President, Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia.
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It is with sadness that I am writing to inform you of the death of Clinical Professor Trevor Parry AM, late last week.
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Trevor was a developmental paediatrician and clinical professor at the University of Western Australia. His lifetime efforts were dedicated to the health and wellbeing of children. We are indebted to Trevor, along with those other notable early leaders in our field, for putting child development on the Australasian map.
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Trevor trained in the United Kingdom, returning in the mid 1970s to establish the State Children Development Centre in Perth, Western Australia. He was Director of that service until 2004. He had enormous influence on the approaches that were developed to diagnose and treat developmental conditions in children. It is on this foundation, on the efforts of visionaries such as Trevor, that our collegiate group and the NBPSA stands.
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Trevor received our first NPBSA ‘lifetime membership’. His membership number within our society is 1. It has been our way of saying how important he has been as a ‘founding father’ for the field of developmental paediatrics.
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Trevor held many leadership positions during his long career, in the former Australian College of Paediatricians, the National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTeY), the Autism Association of WA, the Family Partnership Training Program, and others. Trevor was much involved in medical education in Australia and the developing world, as well as in public education, with particular reference to parenting, child development and the importance of the early years.
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He was recognised in 2006 by the RACP (John Sands Medal), was the inaugural recipient of the Children and Young People Lifetime Achievement Award at the WA Citizen of the Year Awards in 2010, and in 2012 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to paediatric medicine and child health.
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Those of us who trained in Western Australia during Trevor’s time at the State Child Development Centre will remember his purposeful and caring approach to the craft of developmental paediatrics. I also remember Trevor as the gentleman paediatrician who first introduced me to this fascinating area of work.
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I encourage those of you who had the good fortune to know Trevor to share your memories and reflections of him as replies to this post below.
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With all my best wishes to you all.
Alex Reid
04-11 2021 06:05
wrote:
Message from the President, Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia.
…………………..
It is with sadness that I am writing to inform you of the death of Clinical Professor Trevor Parry AM, late last week.
…………………..
Trevor was a developmental paediatrician and clinical professor at the University of Western Australia. His lifetime efforts were dedicated to the health and wellbeing of children. We are indebted to Trevor, along with those other notable early leaders in our field, for putting child development on the Australasian map.
…………………..
Trevor trained in the United Kingdom, returning in the mid 1970s to establish the State Children Development Centre in Perth, Western Australia. He was Director of that service until 2004. He had enormous influence on the approaches that were developed to diagnose and treat developmental conditions in children. It is on this foundation, on the efforts of visionaries such as Trevor, that our collegiate group and the NBPSA stands.
…………………..
Trevor received our first NPBSA ‘lifetime membership’. His membership number within our society is 1. It has been our way of saying how important he has been as a ‘founding father’ for the field of developmental paediatrics.
…………………..
Trevor held many leadership positions during his long career, in the former Australian College of Paediatricians, the National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTeY), the Autism Association of WA, the Family Partnership Training Program, and others. Trevor was much involved in medical education in Australia and the developing world, as well as in public education, with particular reference to parenting, child development and the importance of the early years.
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He was recognised in 2006 by the RACP (John Sands Medal), was the inaugural recipient of the Children and Young People Lifetime Achievement Award at the WA Citizen of the Year Awards in 2010, and in 2012 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to paediatric medicine and child health.
…………………..
Those of us who trained in Western Australia during Trevor’s time at the State Child Development Centre will remember his purposeful and caring approach to the craft of developmental paediatrics. I also remember Trevor as the gentleman paediatrician who first introduced me to this fascinating area of work.
…………………..
I encourage those of you who had the good fortune to know Trevor to share your memories and reflections of him as replies to this post below.
…………………..
With all my best wishes to you all.
