Thanks to Geraldine Occupational Therapy (TTGOT) was established in early 2020 in honour of Dr Geraldine Archer.

Mimi Churchill (Archer) occupational therapist and business director is the great-niece of Geraldine.

When Geraldine was a young women she expressed her desire to be a medical professional. Geraldine’s father considered that medicine was “not a suitable profession for a woman” so she put herself through the long course and internship that followed. Her medical studies were completed at the University of Adelaide where she graduated in 1948 at the age of 36. After some experience on the mainland she cut short her specialist training to return home and care for her dying father. There followed decades of much needed health care provision to the residents of Launceston.

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