Qualifications are MBBS FRCP FCEM FACEM DRCOG

Geoff Hughes graduated from the University of London (King's College and Westminster Medical School) in 1978. He has been a director in emergency medicine since 1990 in tertiary centres in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He is currently Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia and the University of Adelaide; he is also Director of Critical Care Services at the hospital. He has many other senior roles in the hospital and in the state's Department of Health, including Chair of the Medical Imaging Advisory Committee. He has been joint editor in chief of the EMJ since 2005; before that he was senior assistant editor for the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia.

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