INTERNATIONALLY recognised South Australian palliative care specialist Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks has been named the 2013 Senior Australian of the Year.
Prof Maddocks, 82, was honoured on Friday for his work as a specialist and academic and his passionate advocacy for peace at the Australian of the Year awards ceremony in Canberra.
"There are still many in our community who die in discomfort - we can surely do better," he said in a video presentation.
An Emeritus Professor at Flinders University, the octogenarian from the Adelaide beachside suburb of Seacliff still provides care for the terminally ill and continues to supervise postgraduate students.
Prof Maddocks has been a key leader in the Medical Association for the Prevention of War and the Nobel Peace Prize winning group, the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War.
The married father of three, and grandfather to five, was appointed Professor of Palliative Care at Flinders University in 1988.
Prof Maddocks was the first President of the Australian Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, and the first President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Palliative Medicine.
He was also a specialist physician in the Australian Administration of Papua New Guinea for 14 years, and in 1971 became Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea.
Prof Maddocks was born in Hamilton, Victoria, in 1931.
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