Dr. Bruce Rodger
   Emergency,
    Family Medicine

   Dr. Bruce Rodger completed his medical degree in 1982 at the University of Queensland, in Queensland, Australia, where he also fulfilled his continuing medical education requirements in 2001. After medical school, he completed his residency training at Redcliffe Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. His education and training included emphasis on the specialties of Primary care/general practice, emergency medicine and inpatient care including palliative care.


   During his twenty three years of medical practice, Dr. Rodger has worked in both busy city hospitals and in remote locations, where he was frequently the town's sole medical practitioner. As a result, he has a very broad degree of experience covering the whole range of routine primary care to emergency medicine.

   Directly upon completion of residency training, Dr. Rodger moved to Biggenden, Queensland, a remote town with a population of only about 2000. As the town's only physician, Dr. Rodger provided 24 hour coverage for all of Biggenden's inhabitants in general practice, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, emergency medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, outpatient services and acute inpatient care for a 15 bed hospital. In addition, to all of his medical duties, he was also responsible for all of the related administrative duties for Biggenden's population. Dr. Rodger played similar all-encompassing medical roles in Toowoomba and Laidley - much bigger and busier centers in eastern Australia later in his career.

   Dr. Rodger's hospital-based experience includes extensive experience in medical retrievals and evacuations, coronary care, stress testing, renal care and all manner of inpatient care, outpatient care and emergency medicine in hospitals such as the Queen Elizabeth 2nd Hospital in Brisbane. He has, within certain posts, focused his energy on primary care with an emphasis on preventative health care and travel medicine. In working for the Australian Department of Defense in the Gallipoli Barracks, Dr. Rodger's work emphasized management and prevention of conditions related to troop deployment throughout the world, particularly in hostile environments.

   Most recently, from 2002 to 2004, Dr. Rodger worked in Moscow as a Clinical Doctor for International SOS. At SOS, Dr. Rodger again utilized his broad ranging skills as a Family Practitioner to cover everything from trauma to orthopedics and pediatrics to men's health. Additionally, he was responsible for the supervision and training of International SOS Russian medical team.