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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
George Kubacz was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1934 the son of Waclaw Kubacz, a dental surgeon and Wanda nee Swiderski. The family came to Australia in 1949 and settled in Adelaide. George attended the Sacred Heart College there and subsequently commenced his medical education graduating MB,BS from the University of Adelaide in 1958. He commenced his residency at Queen Elizabeth II hospital Woodville just after it opened as a general hospital and thus not very busy so he transferred to Fremantle Hospital. George then commenced General Practice in Kalgoorlie and worked as a flying doctor for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and was assisted and influenced by Dr Bill Roberts who was an experienced surgeon there, to pursue surgery. Consequently he went to Nuffield College in London to commence his surgical studies in 1962 having already become engaged to his future wife who was a nurse at the Kalgoorlie Hospital. He was appointed to the University of Western Australia as Senior Lecturer of Surgery in 1967 and commenced private practice as a general and colo-rectal surgeon a few years later in 1971. He was a founding member of the Renal Transplant team from 1967 to 1971 and he was the co-founder and chairman of the colo-rectal surgical subspeciality group at the Royal Perth Hospital becoming Head of the Colo-Rectal group in 1997 until 2002 and Head of the Department of General Surgery from 1998 to 2002. As well as making numerous contributions to peer reviewed journals he extended his influence to the Joondalup Health Campus from 1980 at it's inception until 2003 becoming Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee from 1996 to 1999 after membership since 1980. He married Shirley Petroboni in 1962 and they have two daughters, the eldest a complementary health practitioner. George had numerous non-medical interests particularly photography but also chess and contract bridge but in addition he is a lover of Richard Wagner's music and for some time was President of the Wagnerian Society and returned to Adelaide in 1998 for the first ever Ring Cycle in Australia. Geroge Kubacz retired in 2002 to pursue his other interests including his own well being. |
