Sarah Strasser
{{Short description|Physician; medical educator}}
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Sarah Mirabella Strasser {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} is an English general practitioner and academic, and is a professor emerita at the University of Waikato, and Dean of the medical school. She specialises in rural health, training of the rural medical workforce, and accreditation.{{Cite web |title=Meet the SFU Medical School Project's New Interim Dean Team |url=https://www.sfu.ca/medicine/news/2023/02/meet-the-sfu-medical-school-project-s-new-interim-dean-team.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=www.sfu.ca |language=en}}
Academic career
Strasser describes herself as a third-generation rural GP.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhiDhlD7xlw |title=Meet Professor Sarah Strasser, Head of the Rural Clinical School |language=en |access-date=2024-03-29 |via=www.youtube.com}} She began training as a GP in the UK, where she met her future husband Roger Strasser, an Australian doctor training in anaesthesia and surgery.{{Cite news |last=D MacA |date=19 September 2023 |title=Roger Strasser: Creating Innovative Medical Schools around the World |url=https://medicsvoices.com/roger-strasser-creating-medical-schools-around-the-world/ |work=Medics Voices}} Roger was offered a position in London, Ontario, so Strasser completed her training there at the University of Western Ontario, under Ian McWhinney. They returned to Australia together and were based at Monash University.
In 2001, both Strassers and their five children relocated to Canada again to set up the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. After five years Sarah Strasser was appointed back in Australia at Flinders University, to develop rural medical training for the Northern Territory, first as Director of the Rural Clinical School and then as Associate Dean Flinders Northern Territory.{{Cite web |last=Walsh |first=Pauline |date=2019-02-06 |title=Congratulations Sarah Strasser, Member of the Order of Australia |url=https://blogs.flinders.edu.au/flinders-nt/2019/02/06/congratulations-sarah-strasser-member-of-the-order-of-australia/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Flinders NT News |language=en-AU}} Strasser then moved to the University of Queensland, where she is head of the rural clinical school and an honorary professor.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-02 |title=Honorary Professor Sarah Strasser |url=https://medical-school.uq.edu.au/profile/2002/sarah-strasser |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=medical-school.uq.edu.au |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Libby |date=24 January 2020 |title=Waikato University bolsters health credentials with two senior appointments |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/119005141/waikato-university-bolsters-health-credentials-with-two-senior-appointments |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}}
In 2020 the Strassers were appointed to the University of Waikato, in the hopes that the government could be persuaded to set up a third New Zealand medical school.{{Cite web |last=communications@waikato.ac.nz |date=2020-01-24 |title=University of Waikato announces two new senior health appointments |url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2020/university-of-waikato-announces-two-new-senior-health-appointments |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=www.waikato.ac.nz |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |last=Kerr |first=Florence |date=1 May 2021 |title=Breath of life for Waikato Medical School in cultural and rural partnerships |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300288854/breath-of-life-for-waikato-medical-school-in-cultural-and-rural-partnerships |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}} After a couple of years both Strassers moved to Simon Fraser University as interim vice-deans, to set up a new medical school.
Honours and awards
In 2019, Strasser was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. She was appointed professor emeritus at the University of Waikato in 2022, and is an honorary professor at the University of Queensland.{{Cite web |title=Emeritus Professors of the University of Waikato |url=https://calendar.waikato.ac.nz/staff-and-honours/emeritus-professors |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=calendar.waikato.ac.nz |language=en-NZ}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q38827676}}
- {{Cite Q|Q49051078}}
- {{Cite Q|Q125212177}}
- {{Cite Q|Q50610034|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite Q|Q37596408}}
- {{Cite Q|Q44872914}}
- {{Cite Q|Q92642104|doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhiDhlD7xlw Meet Sarah Strasser, Head of the Rural Clinical School], interview with Strasser by University of Queensland Medical School, 2017, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Academic staff of the University of Waikato
Category:Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Category:Academic staff of Flinders University
Category:Academic staff of the University of Queensland