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Australian medical doctor (born )

Gordian Ward FuldeAO (born ) is an Australian emergency medicine specialist, the founder of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and was the director of the emergency department of St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney for 35 years, retiring in ^[1][2] He was named Senior Australian of the Year in ^[3]

Early life

Fulde was born in Germany in to Edwald Adolf Oskar Fulde, a thoracic surgeon, and Marie Luise Fulde, a pathologist.

He migrated to Australia with his parents and older brother, Lothar, when he was one year old, settling in Bellevue Hill, a suburb in Sydney's east.^[4]

Career

Fulde studied medicine at the University of Sydney and completed his internship at St Vincent's Hospital.

He trained in general surgery, but after taking up a position at Sutherland Hospital that involved supervising the hospital's emergency department, he discovered that he preferred emergency medic