Norman Swan
Norman Swan is a Scottish Australian medical doctor, journalist and radio producer.[1] Dr Swan was born in Scotland[2] and studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen[1] graduating in 1976.[3] Dr Swan moved to Australia, where he started work with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1982.[1] He was the general manager of ABC Radio National for three years from 1990, and in that time recruited Phillip Adams, Geraldine Doogue and Wendy Harmer as program presenters.[2] Swan co-hosted the Radio National program Life Matters between 1996 and 2001.[3] Swan has produced and presented ABC radio program The Health Report from its inception in 1982.[2]
Dr Swan has been awarded the highest honour in Australian journalism and the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize—the Gold Walkley—for revealing scientific fraud conducted by well-known gynaecologist Dr William McBride. Dr Swan's investigation sent "shock waves throughout the medical world" and led to Dr McBride being de-registered.[1]
Dr Swan has won three Walkley Awards, a Media Peace Award from the United Nations Association of Australia, and the highest honour in Australian science journalism, the Michael Daley Award.[1]
Dr Swan's son Jonathan Swan is an award-winning national political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Melbourne).[4]
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