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Ron Prehn Palmer
He was born in Port Lincoln,South Australia. Worked as a medical Musculoskeletal Specialist and became the Secretary General of the world's largest Medical Association. Through opportune chance mor...ver másHe was born in Port Lincoln,South Australia. Worked as a medical Musculoskeletal Specialist and became the Secretary General of the world's largest Medical Association. Through opportune chance more than by planning,became involved in medical research, helping to develop antivenin for the deadly Box Jellyfish with Dr Jack Barnes and later the discovery of Irukandji, the most venomous creature on the planet. No risk, he considers luck is being in the right place at the right time.
Who said good fortune was a planned assault? While professionally diving in "hard-hat" on the oil fields in Bass Strait, he became the first person to use "oxygen washout therapy" to treat the diver's bends This has become standard treatment for current physical management. Later he spent four years on the Research Committee of the International Federation of the Musculoskeletal Medicine (FIMM).
In sporting activities he has been mountaineering in the Himalayan mountains,assisted teaching rock climbing at the South Brisbane Tafe college, for a decade was a judge for the International Federation of Bodybuilders and ran second three times in the senior division of the Gold Coast Marathon. He has competed in five Brisbane/Gladstone yacht races, currently owns a yacht and plays golf in his spare time. He is a published author and regularly speaks at community functions. He believes life is to short to be lazy and quotes, "If you want it, go for it."
In addition to the above, he has been Editor of three international medical journals, has had 76 published papers in accredited medical journals and has lectured at many international Universities.ver menos