Dr Richard Barker

BSc; MBBS (UQ); FRACGP 

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Richard completed both his Undergraduate Science degree (2004) and Postgraduate Medical degree (2009) at the University of Queensland.

After completing a wide variety of Hospital rotations as a Medical Officer, Richard completed his Specialist General Practice training in 2016 and was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).

Further to this, to facilitate the next generation of high-quality General Practitioners, Richard is a current GP Registrar Supervisor with the RACGP.

Richard enjoys consulting across the full breadth of Primary care, and he is a strong advocate of the value to the individual, and the community, for high-quality Primary care. Along with other General Practitioners at PFMC, he contributes to Primary Care research with the University of Queensland.

Richard is currently a Director of the Australian General Practice Alliance (AGPA), a group that represents GP owned General Practices, along with the AMA & RACGP, to advocate for independent and financially viable General Practice in Australia.

Richard is a Peregian local and spends most of his spare time on various adventures with his two young children, with the occasional surf. 

Accreditations

Specialist General Practitioner

Certificate of Skin Cancer Medicine, Skin Cancer College of Australasia (SCCA)

Special Interests

  • Skin cancer checks and management (Surgical and non-surgical) 

  • Men’s Health

  • Iron Infusions

  • Implanon insertion and removal

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