Dr Gillian Deakin has been studying and working in medicine for nearly half a century. She completed her doctorate degree (MD) at Monash University, after wintering as the medical officer on Antarctica. On her return, she undertook a Masters Degree in Public Health at Sydney University, to explore the causes of illness beyond the disease model. After a year running an aid program on the remote Pacific islands of Kiribati, she returned with her family to her medical practice in Bondi, Sydney, where she has worked since 1991 and has the privilege of being part of the lives of families there. While keeping a sound clinical knowledge of orthodox medicine as supervisor of general practice registrars and Examiner at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, she broadened her understanding of health through studies in nutrition, acupuncture, yoga, meditation, lifestyle medicine and clinical hypnotherapy. She currently lives in Sydney with her husband and takes an active part in the lives of her grandchildren. She loves gardening and keeps bees.
