Curriculum vitae (abbreviated, publication list and research grant record available on request)

Dr. Philip E. Harding

Address: 2A Wakefield Street, Kent Town SA 5067

Date of Birth: 4th November 1941 Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Professional Qualifications: BMedSc (Hons), 1961 MBBS, Adelaide 1965 MRACP 1969 FRACP 1973

Medical Registration Medical practitioner with general and specialist (endocrinologist) registration AHPRA registration number: MED0001202947

Present Appointment

Consultant Endocrinologist 2A Wakefield Street Kent Town SA 5067 Ph: (08) 8331 2250

External Evaluator and member, National Expert Panel, Office of Prescription Medicines, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australian Government

Emeritus Consultant in Endocrinology,

Editor, medicSA (formerly South Australian Medical Review), 2012 -

Previous Appointments

1965 Resident Medical Officer, Royal Adelaide Hospital

1966 - 1968 Medical Officer, Royal Australian Air Force (Butterworth, Malaysia & Edinburgh )

1968 - 1969 Medical Registrar, Royal Adelaide Hospital Postgraduate tutor in Medicine Tutor in medicine to nurses

1970 Senior Medical Registrar, Royal Adelaide Hospital 2

1971 - 1972 Commonwealth Medical Fellow, St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London (Professor Victor Wynn)

1972 - 1973 Fellow and Instructor in Medicine, Pittsburgh University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (Dr James B Field)

1973 - 1976 Staff Specialist in Endocrinology, Royal Adelaide Hospital

1976 - 1996 Director, Endocrine Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital

1992 -1998 Editor, South Australian Medical Review (now medicSA)

1997 - 2003 Senior Lecturer in Medicine (part-time) Consultant Endocrinologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital (part-time)

Awards

1971 Commonwealth Medical Fellowship

1995 Fellow, Australian Medical Association

1994, 95, 97 Australian Medical Association Award for Best State Branch Medical Publication (SA Medical Review – P Harding, Editor)

2002 Honorary Life Membership, Endocrine Society of Australia

2017 Member (AM), Order of Australia

Professional Associations

• Australian Medical Association

• Endocrine Society of Australia

• Australian Diabetes Society

Consultancies

1977 - Consultant in Endocrinology, Flinders Medical Centre

1980 - Consultant in Endocrinology, Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science

1985 - 2002 Consultant in Endocrinology, Modbury Hospital

1992 - 1998 Editor, South Australian Medical Review

1992 Honorary Consultant Physician for visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II to South Australia 3

1995 - 2001 Honorary Consultant Physician, South Australian Cricket Association

2000 - External clinical evaluator, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Commonwealth of Australia (2007 -, member, National expert panel)

Grant Application Review Panels • NHMRC • Anti Cancer Foundation

Occasional Reviewer for various journals

Visiting lectureships to various institutions and organisations

Invited Lectureships (incomplete list)

• Invited Symposium Contributor Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting 1977

• Visiting lecturer Department of Medicine Australian National University 1978

• Guest lecturer Western Australia Post Graduate Endocrinology Week 1985

• Hypothetical Presentations

- “Palliative care for people who don’t have cancer” (The Palliative Care Council of South Australia Inc)

- Diabetes – RACGP Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide 1985

- Diabetes – Australian Diabetes Society Annual Meeting, Melbourne

- Prolactin – Endocrine Society Annual Meeting

• William Wyatt Oration, Royal Adelaide Hospital Foundation Day, 2002

Committee Offices Held

Royal Adelaide Hospital Medical Staff Society • Chairman, Physicians Committee, 1982 - 1984

• Chairman, Medical Staff, 1985 - 1987

Australian Medical Association • Member, South Australian Branch Council, 1988 – 1994

• President, South Australian Branch, 1990 – 1992

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• Member, Federal Council, 1993 - 1994

• Chairman, Federal Ethics Education and Social Issues Committee 1993 – 1994

• Chair, communications committee, South Australian branch, 2012 –

Endocrine Society of Australia • Honorary Secretary, 1976-1978

• Editor of Proceedings and Society Archivist, 1976-1992

South Australian Salaried Medical Officers Association • Member of Council, 1979 - 1984

Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science • Member of Council, 1992 – 1998

Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, Endocrinology Subcommittee • Member, circa 1975 – 1980

Australian Health Ethics Committee, National Health & Medical Research Council • Member, 1994 -2000

• Chair, Reproductive Technology Working Group, 1994 - 1996

• Member, Australian Health Technology Advisory Committee Working Party on Assisted Reproductive Technology, 1996 -1999

• Member, Working Party on National Data Collection in Assisted Reproductive Technology, 1997 -1999

South Australian Diabetes Services Programme Committee • Chairman, 1992 - 1994

South Australian Hospital Scientists Assessment Committee • Member, 1979 1999

• Chairman, 1997 - 1999

Lyell McEwin Health Service Medical Advisory Committee • RACP representative, 1986 - 1990; 2000-

Medical Defence Association • Board Member, 1997 – 1999 • Member, Cases Committee, 1997- 2004 • Member, Advisory panel, 2004 -

National Iodine Nutrition Study South Australian Coordinator, 2002 – 2004 • HARDING Philip Ernest

BMedSc(Hons) MBBS FRACP

FltLt RAAF O43538

1941-

Philip Harding was born on 4 November 1941 in Turvey, Bedfordshire, England, the only son of Ernest and Mary Elizabeth (Molly, nee Pearson) Harding. Life began in this peaceful country village because his mother had been evacuated from London due to the bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, and sadly Harding never knew his father who was serving in the Royal Navy and went down with HMS Penelope when she was sunk in the Mediterranean in February 1944 with dreadful loss of life.

Philip's mother was subsequently remarried to William (Bill) Orton who had been serving in the Middle East with the Royal Corps of Signals. They had two further children and in 1951, tiring of the austerity of postwar Britain, the young Orton family - Philip retaining his father's name at the Harding family's request - decided to emigrate to Australia. The long sea voyage was made in the SS Largs Bay, named after a place meaning nothing to the young Harding, but which he would come to know years later. First Australian landfall was made in Fremantle appropriately on New Year’s Day 1952, the family finally disembarking in Melbourne and making what was Philip's first flight, in a Convair, to Hobart as his stepfather was contracted to work in Tasmania as a teacher. Growing up in New Norfolk, Harding first attended St Virgil’s College as a boarder, which was a challenging experience as a 10 year old new immigrant of whom there were then very few, and subsequently Hobart High School as a day boy. After two and a half years the parents decided that opportunities would be better on the mainland and moved to Adelaide where both Bill and Molly continued teaching careers, initially in Salisbury North. Having some influence in the Education Department, Mr Orton managed to get the young Harding enrolled at Adelaide Boys High School, then a very new school and where Philip completed his education between 1954 and 1957, winning a Commonwealth Scholarship and Leaving Bursary to study medicine at the University of Adelaide, along with the Hugh Cairns scholarship, awarded to an Adelaide High student who is to study medicine.

These well resourced scholarships enabled the young medical student to take up residence at Aquinas College in 1958 and it was in the second year of his medical course that life with the RAAF began when, along with university friends Peter Jolly and Ian Favilla, he joined the Adelaide University Squadron, then based at Barton Terrace North Adelaide which was, for Philip and Peter at least, just a short walk from Aquinas. This was obviously a good recruiting exercise as all three had careers of some duration in the permanent air force: Ian Favilla’s life story including Vietnam service appears elsewhere in this book, and Peter Jolly served with distinction as a pilot, flying instructor and eventually commanding officer of 34 Squadron. On completing preclinical studies in 1960, Harding spent a University vacation in Alice Springs with fellow third year student John Campbell, whose father was a veterinary pathologist and also provided the pathology services to the hospital there. Campbell was another early associate who had a distinguished military medical career, this time in the RAAMC as is also detailed in the pages of this book. The visit to Alice Springs was a particularly important life event as it was the occasion of Harding meeting his future wife Rosemary McGrady, a member of the well-known Central Australian Gorey family. It also opened the way to a long professional association with Alice Springs in later life.

In 1961 Harding completed a B Med Sc(Hons) in physiology and at the end of 1964 graduated MBBS. In January 1964 he and Rosemary were married, their life together being helped more than a little by his being commissioned into the RAAF undergraduate scheme. Following internship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in 1965, Philip was promoted FltLt and posted to 4 RAAF Hospital at Butterworth, Malaysia. Butterworth was a multiservice base with Army as well as Air Force personnel, both Australian and British as well as a few Malaysians. The Emergency was long over by then and life generally pleasant in the tropical environment of Penang island although there were some reminders of terrorist activity, a particularly stark one being the Hardings’ car which was purchased from the widow of a RAF officer who was killed riding his motorcycle home from the base when he encountered a wire strung at neck level across the road.

Most of 1966 was spent at 4 RAAF itself in the role of medical registrar. The CO was Australian, GpCapt H Hardy, but the medical and surgical consultants were both RAMC, Maj A K Davies and Maj WC Moffat respectively, the latter subsequently to become professor of surgery and General, later Sir Cameron, Moffat at the Milbank army hospital in London – where, decades later, Harding shared with him a pleasant lunch. Both of these were excellent teachers and mentors. The inpatients were a mixture of people with incidental and sometimes tropical diseases with casualties from Vietnam who had been evacuated back to Butterworth for treatment. It was during this time that Harding touched briefly upon the Vietnam conflict by being the MO on a medevac flight to retrieve injured soldiers from Saigon. This involved flying at low level over the rice paddies of the Mekong delta, a potentially hazardous situation as Viet Cong snipers were known to be active in the ditches. However, no holes appeared in the aircraft floor! The scene at Tan Son Nhut was extraordinary, with every variety of aircraft parked wherever there was space and an enormous polyglot of people in the buildings. Unbeknown to Harding, his former University Squadron friend, then FltLt and later SqnLdr Peter Jolly was to start such medevac flights a few months later in the role of a C130 Hercules captain back and forth to Australia via Butterworth and Saigon, and also Vung Tau where, had he known, he might have met the third of the trio, Ian Favilla, who was serving there at the time.

In the latter part of 1966 Harding worked at the families clinic on Penang Island. During this time his young family was beset with medical misadventure firstly in the shape of their second child being the subject of an obstetric catastrophe and secondly with Rosemary developing a serious illness which necessitated evacuation back to Australia with Harding being posted to RAAF Edinburgh as Senior Medical Officer, a post he occupied until discharge from the service in March 1968.

Thus began the next phase of Philip Harding’s life with physician training as a medical registrar at RAH, gaining his MRACP in 1969 and then winning a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship for specialty training in endocrinology in London, where he undertook research programs at St Mary's Hospital. A further year was spent doing similar work at the University of Pittsburgh before the Harding family returned to Adelaide with Philip taking up a consultant post in endocrinology at the RAH, with which he has remained associated for the rest of his professional life as Head of Department, chairman of medical staff and now emeritus consultant. During this time, and in private practice following retirement from the full-time RAH staff in 1997, he continued a commitment to the RAAF as a civilian consultant both for clinical problems and, with his service knowledge, on medical reclassification issues. In the mid-1980s he was invited to join the specialist reserve with senior rank but interminable and frustrating delays with ASIO, who were then having a “bad period”, caused the arrangement to falter which, for Harding, was a great disappointment.

Family connections with military medicine re-emerged when Harding's younger brother, who had followed him into the RAAF as a new medical graduate, was deployed to the Middle East during the first Gulf War as specialist intensivist WgCdr John Orton.

More recent professional activities have included presidency of the SA Branch AMA in1992-94 and a long-term role as editor of the branch magazine medicSA. Following retirement from clinical practice Harding acts as an external consultant to the Therapeutic Goods Administration on regulation of new medicines.

Philip and Rosemary Harding have now been married for 52 years and have four children and eight grandchildren none of whom have been exposed or, they hope, will ever be exposed to military conflict.