DR GERALDINE MOSES 1980
“Celebrity” Pharmacist It was the multitude of opportunities she experienced at St Aidan’s that gave Geraldine Moses the confidence to host her own radio talkback show just three years out of university. “Had I not had such a positive sense of infinite possibility from my school days I doubt if I could have achieved this goal,” Geraldine said.
Channel 9’s Extra program for many years and was one of three hosts on the popular Your Health television program on Channel Briz31. She continues to be interviewed by local news and current affairs programs for her opinion on pharmacy matters, hosts medical programs on Rural Health TV and writes columns for several health-related magazines.
The well-known Brisbane pharmacist said St Aidan’s gave her the chance to shine at many things. She successfully participated in activities ranging from debating to sports, foreign languages to singing the (male) lead in school musicals; and in her senior year still managed to be Hartland House Captain and graduate as Dux.
As a spin-off from her early media work, Geraldine and colleagues at Brisbane’s Mater Hospital established The Medicines Line, Australia’s first drug information telephone helpline for the general public. For this work she has won many awards, including a Churchill Fellowship in 1999 to fund travel to investigate international trends in consumer drug information and in 2002, she was named the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Pharmacist of the Year.
Geraldine’s claim to fame was formed by combining her love of educating people about medicines with the power of the media. Her media career began in 1990, when she hosted her own regular medication talkback segment on ABC Radio, which ran until 2004, including two years co-hosting ABC Radio’s Conversation Hour. During this time she also hosted medical talkback on Radio 4BC and Vision Radio, was a regular guest on
She employed her “I can do anything” attitude at the University of Queensland graduating with her Doctorate in Clinical Pharmacy in 2005. On the personal front, Geraldine is married and her daughter Rebecca will soon join the next generation of Moses girls to call St Aidan’s home.