Peter Harre
Spinal Life Australia, affiliate partner of The Hopkins Centre
Peter Harre is a member and founder of Spinal Life Australia’s Peer Support Team, a team of people with lived experience in spinal cord injury who dedicate their time to helping patients at Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Spinal Injuries Unit come to terms with life after injury. Peter said realisation was something he had to find out for himself after sustaining paraplegia in a motorbike accident in 1987. In 2004, he was asked by Spinal Life Australia to help establish the Peer Support Team and the team has since helped an estimated 1,200 people with a newly acquired injury, both in the Unit and in the community. Peter spent eight years developing our SEAT Injury
