King’s Birthday Honours for NSLHD staff Between them Dr Penny Browne and Associate Professor Elisabeth Murphy have decades of looking after the community, earning them recognition in this year’s Kings Birthday honours. Dr Penny Browne
Penny has been a GP for more than three decades, looking after the community and mentoring junior doctors at Hornsby-Brooklyn GP Unit and Bungee Bidgel Aboriginal Health Clinic. Her service to medicine and general practice has been recognised with Penny receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours. Penny is passionate about GP education and has taught and mentored hundreds of registrars, JMOs, and students and was awarded the Royal Australian College of General Practice NSW GP Supervisor of the Year in 2018. In 2022, Penny was also awarded the Australian Medical Association’s President’s award. Associate Professor Elisabeth Murphy Elisabeth was awarded a public service medal (PSM) for outstanding public service to child and family health programs in NSW. Up until recently, Elisabeth was the district’s network director of child, youth and family services before she took a secondment to NSW Health, where she is the senior clinical advisor for child and family health. Her medical career has been devoted to ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and families. Elisabeth also shares a passion for mentoring the next generation of doctors and has an academic role as discipline head of child health at the University of Notre Dame.
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