{"id":15635,"date":"2022-08-30T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/?p=15635"},"modified":"2024-05-31T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T23:39:50","slug":"stronger-an-evening-with-dinesh-palipana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2022\/08\/30\/stronger-an-evening-with-dinesh-palipana\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger: An evening with Dinesh Palipana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">Join Dr <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">Dinesh <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">Palipana<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\"> OAM <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">on <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW264689626 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/events.griffith.edu.au\/event\/d2bba37f-5329-4a5d-b385-1ea607e2f0f4\/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW264689626 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Tuesday 20 September at the Gold Coast <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">c<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">ampus Library<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\" data-contrast=\"auto\"> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">to celebrate the release of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">his<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\"> profound <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">new book, <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW264689626 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/griffithuni.on.worldcat.org\/oclc\/1327572182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW264689626 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Stronger: How Losing Everything Set Me Free<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-AU\" xml:lang=\"EN-AU\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW264689626 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW264689626 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Midway through medical school, Dinesh 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.<\/p>\n<p>Dinesh went on to graduate and is now an emergency doctor at Gold Coast University Hospital. He is the\u00a0first medical graduate in Queensland with quadriplegia.<\/p>\n<p>Dinesh is also a lawyer, a disability advocate, a researcher, and a lover of cars, chocolate\u00a0and \u201990s hip-hop. In 2021 Dinesh was Queensland Australian of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Dinesh\u2019s 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 <em>Griffith Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dinesh\u2019s book<em> Stronger<\/em> will be on sale at the event and Dinesh will be available to sign copies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17240\" src=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/Dinesh-Palipana-book-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the front cover of Dinesh Palipana\u2019s book \u2018Stronger: How losing everything set me free\u2019. The cover shows a picture of Dr Dinesh Palipana sitting in his wheelchair and smiling at the camera. There is a testimonial on the cover by Kurt Fearnley which reads: \u2018Dinesh Palipana is an incredible leader who has challenged the limits of mindset and belief. His contribution to Australia will be felt for generations\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/Dinesh-Palipana-book-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/Dinesh-Palipana-book-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/Dinesh-Palipana-book.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM on Tuesday 20 September at the Gold Coast campus Library to celebrate the release of his profound new book, Stronger: How Losing Everything Set Me Free.\u00a0\u00a0 Midway through medical school, Dinesh sustained a spinal cord injury in a catastrophic car accident. Faced with the daunting prospect of physically and emotionally<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/2022\/08\/30\/stronger-an-evening-with-dinesh-palipana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Stronger: An evening with Dinesh Palipana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":17239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-15635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-researchers","category-students","tag-events"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Vanessa Gatt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/Stronger.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}