Dr Barry Kirby

Dr Barry Kirby undertook the study of medicine after working as a project manager in a health-poor remote region of Morobe Province, PNG in the late 1980s. He completed a premedical honours degree in biomedical science at Griffith University, Queensland in 1995. He graduated with his MBBS from the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) in 2002 at age 52 years. He obtained his Australian Medical registration after passing the AMC examinations in 2007, while working as an ED doctor at Redlands Hospital, Brisbane. He returned to PNG in 2008, and undertook a Diploma in obstetrics and gynecology at UPNG in 2010.

Barry now lives in Alotau, Milne Bay Province and is forming The Hands Of Rescue Foundation to address maternal mortality in Milne Bay Province. Those wishing to find out more can contact him via email: [email protected].