Doctors

Dr Anne Wilson

General Practitioner – Tenant Doctor

• Speciality: General Practitioner
• Education: BMedSci, MBBS, DRANZCOG, MRACGP, FAMA

Dr Anne Wilson was born in Launceston and grew up in Hobart. She graduated with a medical degree from the University of Tasmania in 1981 and worked as an Intern and Resident Medical Officer at the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) 1982-1983. Dr Wilson worked in the Latrobe, Burnie and Devonport hospitals in the northwest of Tasmania while obtaining her Diploma of Obstetrics (DRANZCOG).

Dr Wilson moved to Circular Head in 1985 and became a founding GP of the Smithton Medical Centre. She worked full time in general practice in Smithton (as well as in an outreach practice in Stanley) for 10 years along with her GP husband while raising their four young sons. During this time she was a visiting medical officer at Smithton Hospital and practiced GP Obstetrics having the privilege of caring for women before, during and after their pregnancies as well as delivering their babies.

Dr Wilson’s interest in pregnancy care continued when she joined Summerdale Medical in 1996 and she was the Chair of the Maternity Shared Care Collaborative Group at LGH for over 20 years until the group was dissolved in 2019. She is the editor of the GP Pregnancy Care Pregnancy Record (‘the pink book’) which is a resource and record booklet used by GPs, Obstetricians and patients in northern Tasmania.

Dr Wilson also has a keen interest in vaccination and has been a medical representative member of the National Immunisation Committee since 2015. Dr Wilson was a board member of the Division of General Practice North for a number of years before the introduction of Medicare Locals. She joined the General Practice North Committee again in 2018 and is the current Chair. Other representative roles include Federal Australian Medical Association (AMA) Council of General Practice 2012-2020 and AMA Tasmania State Council 2011 to present day. In August 2020 Dr Wilson was inducted into the AMA Roll of Fellows in recognition of her ‘outstanding contribution to medicine, the medical profession and the AMA’.

Dr Wilson’s role at Summerdale Medical has changed in recent years from booked sessional work to working in the treatment area of the surgery in a flexible locum type role increasing her working hours depending on patient demand and surgery workload. She is passionate about traditional family general practice ‘cradle to grave’ comprehensive continuity of primary care for all patients in our community and hopes to inspire young GP trainees similarly.