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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Herbert Copeman was born in Brisbane in 1923, the son of Arthur Bradby Copeman, a school Principal and Regional Director of Education, and Ellen nee Briggs. His early education was at Toowoomba Grammar School. In 1942, at the age of 19, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force and served as a fighter pilot in World War II in the United Kingdom and Europe, attaining the rank of Flying Officer. After demobilisation he entered the Queensland Medical School and graduated MB BS in 1951, winning the MNA Prize in Clinical Medicine. After gaining the necessary experience he was appointed a consultant physician to the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1957. For the next seventeen years he was extremely active in many aspects of medicine and at the same time was President of the Queensland Marriage Guidance Council from 1955 - 1965 and Vice President of the National Marriage Guidance Council of Australia between 1958 and 1968. In 1975 he moved to Perth, having been appointed Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies in the University of Western Australia and Honorary Consultant in General Medicine and Endocrinology at the Royal Perth Hospital. In this capacity he influenced the careers of many graduates. He was sometime President of the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine in Australia. He has had considerable interest in the effect of hormones in the prevention or regression of atheroma and has published articles on this subject overseas. His real forté has been as a teacher and a caring physician. He married Margaret Jean nee Hill in 1947 and they have three sons and a daughter. One son is a doctor and the daughter is a social worker. In his private life, Herb has been a true sportsman with interests in rugby union, tennis and sailing. After retirement from Royal Perth Hospital in 1988, he has continued to act as a Consultant Physician at the Albany Regional Hospital. |
