General Practitioner
Austin, raised in Rugby England, the home of the game, graduated from Birmingham University Medical School in 1991. He first worked in Toowoomba and then Brisbane between 1993 an 1995, before returning to the UK to complete his GP training.
Austin became a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1996, and returned to live in Kingscliff with his wife and four children in 2001. Becoming a member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2001, he set up practice in South Tweed where he has continued to serve the Tweed community for the last 16 years. Austin has been the liaison GP for Closing the Gap Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Director of the Tweed Valley Division of General Practice until 2014, a founding director of the Tweed Superclinic in 2013, and continues to be the GP representative for the John Flynn Hospital Medical Advisory Committee.
Austin has a special interest in diabetes, aged care, chronic disease management, men’s health, and skin cancer medicine.
