Rate My Professor Aidan Foy

Conjoint Associate Professor Aidan Foy serves in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the Clinical Dean of the Maitland Clinical School within the Joint Medical Program, a partnership between the University of Newcastle and the University of New England. Foy obtained his MBBS from the University of Sydney, graduating in 1971, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP). His distinguished career encompasses clinical practice, medical administration, and education. Early roles included Director of Alcohol and Drug Services at Royal Newcastle Hospital and Director of the Alcohol & Drug Unit at Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital, where he developed protocols for managing withdrawal syndromes. Subsequently, he held the position of Director of General Medicine at Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital. In 2010, Foy was appointed Associate Clinical Dean of the Hunter Clinical School at Maitland Hospital to mentor medical students and coordinate their education amid growing clinical placements. He has also delivered healthcare in remote regions such as Alice Springs, Moree, and Mungindi, focusing on internal medicine and community health in Indigenous populations.

Foy's scholarly output includes contributions to addiction medicine, gastroenterology, and clinical management. Key publications are "Barbiturate withdrawal—A nomogram for supplementary dosing after the phenobarbitone loading technique" (1995, Addiction), "The course of alcohol withdrawal in a general hospital" (1995), "Clinical use of a shortened alcohol withdrawal scale in a general hospital" (2006, Internal Medicine Journal), "Pegylated interferon-α2β in combination with ribavirin does not alter thyroid function tests during chronic hepatitis C infection" (2007, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology), "Digesting neurology" (2005, The Lancet Neurology), "An open trial of naltrexone for opiate dependence" (1998), and "Drug withdrawal: a selective review" (1991). In 2016, he received the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours for significant service to medicine, particularly gastroenterology, medical education and administration, and the community.