Stronger - an evening with Dinesh Palipana

Stronger - an evening with Dinesh Palipana
Stronger - an evening with Dinesh Palipana

Principal speaker

Dr Dinesh Palipana

Other speakers

Myles McGuire


Join Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM to celebrate the release of his profound new book, Stronger: How Losing Everything Set Me Free.

Midway through medical school, Dinesh Palipana sustained a spinal cord injury in a catastrophic car accident. Faced with the daunting prospect of physically and emotionally rebuilding, Dinesh never surrendered his ambition to practise medicine, instead viewing the profession through the prism of his experience.

Dinesh went on to graduate and is now an emergency doctor at Gold Coast University Hospital. He is the first medical graduate in Queensland with quadriplegia.

Dinesh is also a lawyer, a disability advocate, a researcher, and a lover of cars, chocolate and '90s hip-hop. In 2021 Dinesh was Queensland Australian of the Year.

Dinesh's story is one of triumph over adversity, of seizing control over life in impossible circumstances.

This free in-conversation event will be hosted by Myles McGuire and is brought to you by Griffith University Library and Griffith Review.

Stronger will be on sale at the event and Dinesh will be available to sign copies.


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RSVP on or before Monday 19 September 2022 12.32 pm, via https://events.griffith.edu.au/d/49qlwg/

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