Dr Pearce trained in Adelaide
and worked at the RAH, QEH and Modbury Hospitals before starting work in
General Practice.
Dr Pearce currently holds
positions on numerous boards and in 2008 was appointed by the Health Minister
the Hon. Nicola Roxon to the External Reference Group to develop Australia’s
National Primary Health Care Strategy for the national health reforms.
In 2010 he was reappointed to
the Australian Technical Advisory Group on immunization (ATAGI) the group who
produce the Australian Immunization Handbook and maintains a keen local and
national interest in vaccination programs, often asked to comment on
immunization issues.
Dr Pearce was president of the
AMA (SA) 1998-2000 and GP Nationally Elected Representative on the Federal AMA
and Chair of the AMA Council of General Practice for 3 terms from 2004-2010. He
is a fellow of the AMA and received the AMA (SA) Presidents award in 2008.
Dr Pearce was instrumental in
Beulah Park and Athelstone Clinics becoming the first in SA to train young
doctors in their postgraduate (Intern) years and prevocational years (PGPPP) in
the community and continues to be an active supervisor to GP registrars through
the regional training program.
On
Australia Day 2012 Dr Pearce was admitted to the ORDER OF AUSTRALIA (AM) for service to medicine as a general
practitioner, through contributions to national medical organisations, and to
education.
