Chris Baggoley
Christopher James Baggoley is an Australian doctor and the Chief Medical Officer of Australia between 2011 and 2016. Baggoley is the Chief Medical Advisor for Calvary Care.
Baggoley was appointed to the position of Australia's Chief Medical Officer in August 2011 having acted in the position since April on the resignation of Jim Bishop. As Chief Medical Officer Baggoley contributed to the international response to several epidemics including Ebola, MERS and Zika virus through his work on the World Health Organisation’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee. He resigned from the position in 2016 and was replaced by Brendan Murphy.
Baggoley first completed a degree in veterinary science, later enrolling in the Flinders University postgraduate medical course. In his career Baggoley has been director of emergency medicine at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Chief Medical Officer of South Australia and chief executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Baggoley was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for "distinguished service to medicine, particularly in the area of emergency medicine as a clinician, to medical administration and public health care, and to education".
He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019.
