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“Rehab saved my life, now I’m committed to paying back that debt”

Dr Bruce Powell was Australia’s longest-serving state director of organ and tissue donation, an experienced anaesthetist and head of an intensive care unit before a horrific cycling accident halted his career.  During his 25-year career, Dr Powell worked as a medical officer with the Royal Navy, and as a kidney specialist, intensive care doctor and anaesthetist in the Australian health system. He led a new intensive care unit in Western Australia’s Rockingham Hospital and after introducing an organ donation operation within the facility, he was asked by the Australian Government’s organ donation authority, DonateLife, to lead their work throughout Western Australia.  But his impressive career would come to a dramatic end in September 2018 when he took a trip to the east coast of Australia to compete in a charity bike ride on the Great Ocean Road.

By |2026-09-28T21:36:52+01:0017 March 2023|Patient stories, News, Patients & families|
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