Dr Helen Colquhoun

Dr Helen Colquhoun (MBBS, FRACGP) was born in Melbourne in 1960 and then moved to Adelaide where she attended school. She spent a year in England before starting medical school back in Adelaide. Dr Colquhoun graduated in 1984 and worked in Adelaide general hospitals for several years. She married a Queensland financial manager and, after spending time in China, moved to Brisbane. Here, she has worked at Greenslopes Hospital and in other general practices before joining this one in 1989. Dr Colquhoun has three daughters, Stephanie (1990), Rachael (1992) and Madeleine (1995) and is involved in school P&C associations, as well as the endless task of renovating an old Queenslander home. In 1995, she passed the examinations to become a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is also an accredited Positive Parenting Programme counselor assisting parents dealing with the behaviour problems of their children.