Master of Ceremonies
Richard Margetson
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Richard is best known for his work on radio initially in 1991 at 5UV and from 1993 as a presenter for Triple J, ABC Local Radio in Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, and for 15 years at ABC Darwin. He has also produced, written, presented multiple long form documentary projects, and presented TV programs which have aired nationally and internationally.
In 40 years as a performer, MC and facilitator he has hosted hundreds of public events Australia wide, including multiple awards nights, live TV crosses, public discussions, forums, hypotheticals, comedy debates, community events, and for over 20 years as an MC at Womadelaide Festival.
Prior to a career in radio he had spent ten years working in theatre, film, TV and radio, hosting programs for Channel 9 and ABC, and working extensively in stage shows and commercial voiceovers, film and TV narrations.
Since leaving ABC in 2019 he has worked as onsite event co ordinator and film producer, MC and performer, as well as working for NT Disability organisation HPA as carer and support worker.
After arriving in Darwin in 2004 Richard’s extracurricular pursuits include being a board member of Browns Mart, The Adelaide Crows NT Supporters number 1 ticket holder, and has performed and recorded for over a decade as a member of The Choir Of Man. As an actor he appeared Darwin vs Matilda for DEC, Pathetic Fallacy 2018 Darwin Festival, and the 2020 production of AWAY.
He is a singer songwriter and drummer with The Nerve, and regularly appears as DJ Margo at clubs and events.
Keynote Presenters
Prof Jaquelyne T Hughes
Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam), BMed FRACP PHD | Professor Jaquelyne Hughes is a Torres Strait Islander woman (Wagadagam), and the inaugural Clinical Research Professor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Advancement within Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Rural and Remote Health, NT. Prof Hughes is a specialist physician (nephrologist), with experience in chronic kidney disease, dialysis and health systems research and health systems innovative transformation.
Keynote Presentation: Stories of Survival: Research led by and delivered for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have high health care needs.
Where are you? Whose land are you on? Do you read stories (research) about people of a place? How do stories of people, illness and health outcomes resonate from place? Who are the story tellers? Who are the audience of story? What is your attitude and bias, when you read stories? What actions occur from reading stories? What is a dignified response to story, and whose dignity is served in the response? Who, when, how and where are stories of survival finding place in Australian and international stories. How do people of place want stories told, shared, archived about their survival.
How do data stories promote survival? The Australian health industry is based on story, whether as interview of patient and family, determining a history of illness and complaint, and the hearer of story, as credentialled medical officer, is responsible for achieving time and resource efficient resolution of complaint. The opening paragraph can be re-read, by replacing “story” with “research”. In this plenary, an invitation is given to a willing audience to approach the above questions from position of health professional supporting survival and health improvement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have high health care needs.
Olivia O'Donoghue
Dr Olivia O’Donoghue is descendant of the Yankunytjatjara and the Narungga Nations peoples. She is a General Practitioner who gained Fellowship with RACGP in 2012 and has worked in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health in the Northern Territory, across urban and remote footprints. She currently visits Yadu Health in Ceduna.
Olivia has extensive Medical and Cultural Educator experience. Olivia works as the lead Medical Educator for the Indigenous GP Trainee Network (IGPTN), supporting and mentoring Indigenous GPs in training and GPs interested in medical education. Olivia was the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Censor for the RACGP Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health from 2020 to 2023 and has now transitioned to be the first National Clinical Head of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Torres Strait Islander Training for the RACGP.
Olivia is a current board director for the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association.
Keynote Presentation: Dr Olivia O’Donoghue (Workshop)
Medical education and training in Australia are primarily enshrined in western epistemologies and methodologies. This paradigm inevitably advantages dominant cultural groups and disadvantages minority cohorts such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have a long history of teaching, learning, science, research and sustainable living which had not been acknowledge and was actively and detrimentally disrupted through colonising processes.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of teaching and learning are immersive, layered, relational and connected to community and culture. Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pedagogies and methodologies into medical education systems is a fundamental step in realising systems change that will lead to culturally safe and responsive learning environments.
In this session we will explore the application of twelve fundamental principles to guide transformative change in medical and clinical education that foregrounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values. These principles will not only afford enhancements to improve outcomes both in educational delivery and safety, but will contribute to training and workforce equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to improving health outcomes for all Australians.
The twelve guiding principles are non-hierarchical and equally as important as each other as they are intimately interconnected to each other. These principles are Decolonisation; Indigenisation; Self-determination; Leadership; Equity; Cultural Safety; Values and Knowing, Being and Doing; Strengths-based Approaches; Trauma informed; Racism, Discrimination and Privilege; Sovereignty and Data Sovereignty. We will collectively define these principles and discuss practical and tangible ways to implement them in the context of medical education and medical learning institutions.
Learning Objectives
1. Develop a shared understanding of twelve guiding principles that embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, epistemologies and methodologies to enhance medical education and training.
2. Explore strategies for the practical application of the twelve guiding principles within our medical training institutions.
3. Implement strengths based approaches while actively identifying and eliminating deficit narratives and dichotomous discourse.
Assoc Prof Rhys Jones
Rhys Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) is a public health physician and Associate Professor in Māori Health at Waipapa Taumata Rau / the University of Auckland. He has a leadership role in Māori Health teaching and learning in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. His teaching excellence has been recognised nationally and internationally, including the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Excellence in Tertiary Teaching in 2020. Rhys’s research addresses Indigenous health and health equity, with an emphasis on environmental wellbeing and decolonial approaches to planetary health. He is a passionate advocate for health equity, Indigenous rights and climate justice. Rhys was a founding co-convenor of OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council, and is co-director of Climate Health Aotearoa, a national climate change and health research network.
Keynote Presentation: Planetary health: what does it mean for prevocational medical education?
There is increasing recognition that climate disruption and ecological breakdown have serious implications for human health. Doctors and other health professionals have important roles to play in the global response to ecological crisis, and health professional education must therefore address planetary health competencies. Underpinning this is a need to develop a critical understanding of the role of colonial, capitalist systems in driving the intersecting social, environmental and health crises that we face. In this presentation, Rhys will discuss what this means for prevocational medical education. Rather than simply being an add-on to the existing curriculum, engaging with planetary health should cause us to question dominant models of health care education and practice. It has the potential to be disruptive and transformative, requiring learners, educators and practitioners to engage with colonialism, racism and white/settler privilege. We will consider the implications for medical education and training bodies, with an emphasis on decolonising curricula and centralising Indigenous values, knowledges and ways of being.
Keynote Presentation: Planetary health: what does it mean for prevocational medical education?
There is increasing recognition that climate disruption and ecological breakdown have serious implications for human health. Doctors and other health professionals have important roles to play in the global response to ecological crisis, and health professional education must therefore address planetary health competencies. Underpinning this is a need to develop a critical understanding of the role of colonial, capitalist systems in driving the intersecting social, environmental and health crises that we face. In this presentation, Rhys will discuss what this means for prevocational medical education. Rather than simply being an add-on to the existing curriculum, engaging with planetary health should cause us to question dominant models of health care education and practice. It has the potential to be disruptive and transformative, requiring learners, educators and practitioners to engage with colonialism, racism and white/settler privilege. We will consider the implications for medical education and training bodies, with an emphasis on decolonising curricula and centralising Indigenous values, knowledges and ways of being.
Dr Jade Tamatea
Jade grew up in the Waikato region of Aotearoa New Zealand before studying medicine at The University of Auckland. Having now returned to the Waikato, Jade currently works as an academic, clinician and health leader. With a Fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, she works as an Endocrinologist working within the Te Whatu Ora Waikato, providing clinical care for individuals with complex endocrinological conditions. She also works as Senior Lecturer at Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland), with a dual appointment in Te Kupenga Hauora Māori and the Department of Medicine where she focuses on growing the next generation of clinicians. In addition, Jade serves in many leadership and governance roles in healthcare, education and research.
Jade’s passion is Māori health and she sees critique of the health services and system(s) as an important aspect of improving outcomes. Her research has looked at the journey of patients with thyrotoxicosis focusing on impact on Māori in the healthcare system and areas for improvement. As an endocrinologist, she takes this into her clinical sphere, driving for change in the delivery of healthcare for Māori. Through her teaching role, she is focused on developing graduates with deep understanding of hauora Māori (Māori health), with integrated clinical skills, and that are also critical-thinking life-long learners.
She thrives on the support of her wider whānau, her supportive husband and their two thriving rangatahi (teenagers).
Keynote Presentation: Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu – Adorn the bird with feathers so that it may fly
The unjust gap in healthcare outcomes for Indigenous communities in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Australia is unacceptable. Healthcare systems, services and practitioners all play a role in perpeutating, but also potentially eliminating, these inequities. Achieving equity for Indigenous communities in healthcare requires power-sharing partnerships with communities, including how we teach and assess our students and trainees. In the apprenticeship or tuakana-teina model of medical education, senior clinicians play a critical role in achieving health equity, now and in the future.
In this discussion, we will investigate our role in the education, supervision and assessment of Indigenous health for both students and trainees. Focussing on the role of clinical teaching and assessment in Indigenous health competencies, Dr Tamatea will share her learnings from curriculum development, teaching and assessment of hauora Māori (Māori health) into the clinical years of the MBChB year at Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland). Informed by her experiences as a clinical supervisor and mentor of PGY1 and 2 graduates, Dr Tamatea will consider the core competencies of all educators and discuss their experience of horizontal learning within their organisation. Finally, she will broach how to approach teaching Indigenous health in the racialised spaces in which students and trainees work and learn and how we can ensure they thrive in a system safe from harassment and racism.
Leanne Liddle
Born and raised in Alice Springs, Central Arrernte woman Leanne Liddle has a passion for justice. As Director of the Aboriginal Justice Unit, she’s travelled thousands of kilometres to meet and listen to Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory.
Leanne is the driving force behind the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Agreement, which, in partnership with Aboriginal people aims to: reduce imprisonment rates; increase Aboriginal leadership; and improve justice outcomes for Aboriginal Territorians.
Leanne was South Australia’s first Aboriginal policewoman. During her decade of service, she experienced racism and abuse that she fought and used to fuel her passion to make a difference in the justice arena.
Leanne went on to complete a law degree and has since worked for the United Nations, and in several high-profile government roles, before joining the Aboriginal Justice Unit in 2017.
Leanne is committed to empowering Aboriginal Territorians with justice solutions that will work where others have failed.
Keynote Presentation: Cultural competence is unhealthy, cultural safety is crucial but not your call. Your job is to eliminate racism in healthcare in all its forms.
This keynote critiques cultural awareness and cultural competence in healthcare. Cultural safety can only be determined by the patient. Health workers and providers deliver what they believe and hope is good practice (often based on generic culturally appropriate guidelines). These are often wrong and only Aboriginal experts (including patients and community-controlled health services) can actually assess cultural safety and therefore place-based best practice. White privilege and racism is largely invisible to those who benefit from it BUT is very obvious to those who are harmed by it. This talk will then briefly sketch of what doctors and medical schools can do to eliminate racism in all its forms, explaining the benefits in terms of better outcomes for patients, and consequently a genuine sense of “making a difference”.
Presenters
Dr Curtis Roman
Dr Curtis Roman is a Larrakia man born and raised on Larrakia country. He is the first Indigenous man to be awarded a PhD from Charles Darwin University and the first Larrakia person to be awarded a PhD from Charles Darwin University. He has taught at higher education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He also supervises PhD students doing research on Indigenous topics. Dr Roman has published on Indigenous topics in academic journals in Australia and abroad. He has worked in academia, the public sector, community organisations and Indigenous organisations
Dr Wayne Beer
Dr Wayne de Beer is the Clinical Training Director, and Carol Stevenson is Educational manager at Health New Zealand - Waikato. Both work in the Clinical Education & Training Unit at the organisation.
Peta Rutherford
Peta has been the Chief Executive Officer for the Rural Doctors Association of Australia for eight years, and continues to advocate passionately for the rural and remote doctors (across all medical streams) and their communities.
Her background includes experience in small rural hospitals, remote nursing clinics, and rural residential aged care management. Additionally, her ten years at Medicare have provided her with a solid foundation in understanding how the systems work. Peta uses this knowledge to help turn the solutions and innovative ideas proposed by rural and remote doctors into effective policies and real-world outcomes.
Dr Susannah Bond
Dr Susannah Bond is a Psychiatrist by background and the Director of Clinical Training for the Townsville Hospital. Susannah did her medical training and early postgraduate education in the UK prior to moving to Australia with her young family in 2017.
Dr John Vassiliadis
Clinical Professor John Vassiliadis MBBS(USyd) FACEM MHPE(Monash), AAICD, RAN.
John is a senior staff specialist in Emergency Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), Director of Prevocational Education and Training at RNSH, Chair of the Prevocational Training Council (Health Education and Training Institute) NSW, Clinical Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Honorary Professor at Macquarie University, Adjunct Clinical Professor, Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education, Monash University. John is a passionate educator whose educational interests include airway management and training, patient safety, clinician error prevention and mitigation using medical simulation and training and mentoring junior doctors. He holds the rank of Captain in the Australian Navy and is currently the Director of Navy Health Training.
Dr Mary-Ann Elliott
Dr Mary-Ann Elliott serves as the Medical Clinical Educator and IMG Supervisor at The Austin Hospital, where she leads the IMG Observership program. She has been instrumental in implementing necessary changes in the supervision model, emphasizing the value of structured supervision and support to enhance the clinical skills and confidence of IMGs in high-pressure environments.
Dr Elliott obtained her MBBCH in South Africa and went on to specialize in Emergency Medicine in Australia. She remains an active practitioner at the Northern and Austin Hospitals. Her focus is on improving emergency care and medical education for prevocational doctors, particularly IMGs. Dr Elliott is also currently pursuing further training in medical education.
Melanie Vellios
Melanie launched her career in Pharmacy as a Senior Hospital Pharmacy Technician. During the COVID-19 lockdown, she studied a Diploma of Human Resource Management. Her diploma sparked a move into the Junior Medical Workforce, where Melanie discovered a passion for enabling junior doctors and providing support throughout their journey.
Melanie has since taken over the PMCV prevocational match portfolio. In this role, she has helped PMCV to achieve the best possible outcomes for medical professionals in the early stages of their careers by working closely with clinical schools, candidates, and health services.
Dr Sarah Rickman
Dr Sarah Rickman has a background in planning and delivery of medical education programs with a particular focus in the prevocational space, including IMGs.
Clinically trained as an Emergency Physician, she has complemented this with a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education, a Specialist Certificate in Clinical Leadership and in governance training. Firm in the belief that optimising outcomes for prevocational doctors requires supporting our educators and supervisors, she has been involved in programs and networks engaging this group.
As the medical director for the PMCV, she is involved with many aspects of planning and support in the prevocational space.
Gemma Siemensema
Gemma Siemensma is the Library Manager at Grampians Health. Her work interests relate to research, knowledge sharing and the integration of library resources for seamless access. In this role she ensures that health information is accessible across the health service so that evidence based information is used to help deliver the best clinical outcomes.
Her work also focuses on making the library an integral part of the organisation by looking for ways to position the library in non-traditional library spaces highlighting the value health libraries can bring to a clinical area.
Gemma is Convenor of the Australian Library and Information Association’s Health Libraries Australia special interest group and she represents health libraries in national advisory roles on numerous committees and sub groups.
Dr Thomas Stefoulis
Dr Thomas Stefoulis is a PGY2 medical resident at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, with a dedicated focus on critical care medicine. He has a strong interest in medical education, having completed a research project comparing standardised summative assessment methods during his medical degree at Notre Dame, which earned first prize in his category, and was presented at the Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference in Singapore in 2023.
Dr Stefoulis is an adjunct associate lecturer at Notre Dame and involved in clinical skills tutoring and examinations for medical students. He is the Medical Education & Training Portfolio Lead for the NSW HETI JMO Forum Executive and serves on several committees aimed at improving medical education and training. His work focuses on enhancing JMO education through innovative teaching methods and supportive educational environments.
Natalie Ward
Natalie joined the hospitality industry whilst at university before she determined a career direction. During her fifteen years in hospitality, she was lucky enough to work in both Melbourne and London with some brilliant chefs, managers, and companies.
After completing a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with a major in Human Resource Management, she was able to transfer skills from hospitality into the corporate sphere.
Working as a Senior Administrator for with Box Hill Institute with a Jobs Victoria Project, responsible for eligibility checks, project outlines and the set-up and completion of all reporting tools.
Whilst Natalie doesn’t have a health background, her skill set enables her to be pragmatic and objective when reviewing posts or health services against the standards of accreditation.
Dr Jonathan Kaufman
Dr Jonathan Kaufman is a General Paediatrician and Director of Clinical Training (General HMO Stream) at Western Health.
Dr Rebeca Stewart
Dr Bec Stewart is a General Practitioner and Medical Educator with over 20 years' experience in undergraduate, prevocational and vocational medical and general practice training. She has particular expertise in supporting international medical graduates.
Bec works clinically as a GP with Special Interest in Cardiology and Surgery.
Suzanne McGavin
Suzanne is the Chief Nuclear Medicine Scientist at Royal Darwin Hospital. She is invested in doing her part to close the gap of health inequities for First Nations Peoples, particularly in the Molecular Imaging Department.
Suzanne has worked as a Lecturer, clinical educator and clinician throughout Australia, but has called Darwin home for the past three years, and found her happy place of delivering a high care service for patients which is personally rewarding and challenging at the same time.
Suzanne has built up a young and vibrant Molecular Imaging team which is passionate about being at the forefront of health imaging and further educating others on the beautiful dynamic of working in the Northern Territory.
Assoc Prof Ian Lee
Ian is a Larrakia from Darwin and grew up in a household with 14 brothers and sister. Growing up no one in his family considered university until his father completed a TAFE course. Ian went to the University of Canberra to study Applied Science in Computer Science.
In 2011 he started studying medicine at the NTMP with Flinders University in Darwin, but he was not able to complete it. From there he worked in the Royal Darwin Hospital with the Patient Advocate.
Ian heard that CDU were going to start a new medical program from Darwin and later Alice Springs, so he joined their First Nations Advisory Group. Ian was then seconded to the CDU, as the First Nations Health and Cultural Advisor in the Faculty of Health and was in this position for over 15 months.
Ian is now the First Nations Lead in the CDU Menzies Medical Program.
Dr Lachlan O'Sullivan
Lachie is an Advanced Trainee in General and Acute Care and Geriatric Medicine currently working in Perth, Western Australia. He completed much of his early training in Mackay, mid-north Queensland, and Perth. He has worked with inspiring people in the Northern Territory and Tasmania, and formed mateships and mentorships with clinicians, baristas, and their pets along the way.
Lachie hopes to establish himself as a clinician educator, enjoying previous work with James Cook University as a clinical lecturer, and his current role with the WA Country Health Service Medical Education Unit. He is a dissertation candidate for a Master in Health Professions Education this year looking at the application of educational principles used in clinical simulation to workplace supervision.
Dr Kirstie Evans
Kirstie are currently an HMO3 working at the Austin Hospital. Hoping to pursue a career in the critical care area, particularly in Anaesthesia or Intensive Care, Kirstie also have an interest in medical education, which led them to the role of Education Lead for JMO Victoria. In the future, they plan to divide their time between clinical medicine and medical education.
Assoc Prof Katrina Anderson
Dr Katrina Anderson is Clinical Professor, Academic Unit of General Practice, Australian National University Medical School and Medical Education Adviser for the Canberra Region Medical Education Council. She teaches students, junior doctors, registrars and clinical supervisors.
Her main research and education interests are in medical education specifically around vertical integration, faculty development, supervisor support and prevocational training. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and leads a "Teaching in Medicine" pathway to Associate Fellowship HEA.
Dr Owen Bradfield
Dr Owen Bradfield, Chief Medical Officer, MIPS. Owen is a qualified medical practitioner, health lawyer, and Fulbright Scholar. With over 15 years’ experience in medical indemnity, Owen combines his role as Chief Medical Officer with health law research at the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Ethics Committee.
Dr Pamela Ferrada
Dr Pamela J. Ferrada is a healthcare educator whose experience spans scientific research and education. Prior to transitioning into healthcare education, Pamela amassed over a decade of experience in regenerative medicine and virology research.
As a medical education scholar, she focuses on designing and delivering medico-legal professional development programs that empower healthcare professionals and institutions with the knowledge, attitudes and competencies essential for delivering high quality care, while minimizing the likelihood of medical negligence claims, complaints or investigations by regulatory bodies.
Pamela holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, a Master of Teaching and is a graduate from the Training to Teach in Medicine postgraduate certificate program at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests focus on the integration of andragogical tools into healthcare education and the interplay between metacognition, learning and student agency.
Pamela also serves as the Director of Partnerships at the Harvard Alumni for Education Global Group.
Rosie Lipscomb
Rosie Lipscomb is a research assistant in the Workplace Mental Health Team at the Black Dog Institute. She earned her Bachelor of Psychology (Honors) from the University of Newcastle in 2020.
Her current focus revolves around investigating the mental health challenges faced by doctors in training and medical students. Rosie's passion for understanding and improving mental health outcomes for adults in working environments with high job demands drives her research pursuits.
With a strong foundation in psychology and a commitment to practical applications, she aims to contribute valuable insights to the field of workplace mental health, particularly within the demanding context of medical education and training.
Dr Vivian Lin
Vivian Lin and Rachel Yager are both resident medical officers in the Central Coast Local Health District in New South Wales. They both have leadership roles in the near peer medical teaching group facilitating teaching and research from all junior doctors across the central coast local health district. Aside from NPMT, both Rachel and Vivian enjoy playing basketball together.
Natalie Hickman
Natalie has worked in SA Health for 23 years, the past 15 years in the Central Adelaide Health Network. Natalie has a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences and Sociology, and postgraduate training in Adult, Vocational and Workplace Learning.
Prior to accepting the role of Project Lead, she worked as a Medical Education Officer, offering support to Prevocational Medical Trainees navigating the system. Natalie has a strong interest in Prevocational Medical Trainee welfare, medical workforce optimisation and building psychologically safe workplaces.
When the offer to collaborate on the CALHN Professional Accountability Program came forward, it was a simple decision to join the team. Who wouldn’t want to be part of a project that seeks to make medicine safer and kinder.
Dr Adam Walsh
Adam Walsh is a PGY2 doctor working in Geelong, Victoria currently completing Basic Physician's Training. He is the co-chair of JMO Victoria and the prevocational doctor representative member of the Prevocational Medical Council of Victoria board.
Adam is passionate about junior doctor advocacy and the implementation of the revised National Framework for Prevocational Medical Training, particularly in regional and rural areas, which he believes will give doctors more confidence and a better foundation of clinical experience before entering vocational training.
Dr Vesa Cheng
Vesa graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce.
Vesa completed a PhD with Prof. Jason Roberts and A. Prof Kiran Shekar at The University of Queensland. Vesa has also been working as the Advanced Pharmacy Educator in the Medical Education Unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Her special interests include interprofessional practitioner development, reflective practice and the optimisation of antimicrobial dosing.
Dr Kanika Chaudhry
Kanika is a Resident Medical Officer and aspiring Anaesthetist at Royal North Shore Hospital who completed her PhD in Public Health. She is passionate about teaching, research and wellbeing. Currently she is focused on developing a teaching program for junior doctors.
Dr Emma Hodge
Dr Emma Hodge is currently Queensland's only Medical Education and Wellbeing Registrar, a novel initiative of the Regional Medical Pathway (RMP).
With a strong passion for medical education and aspiring DCT, she has been instrumental in growing the RMP including the implementation of novel wellbeing initiatives to support the attraction of doctors to regional hospitals. Emma is also a RACMA candidate and the AMAQ Wellbeing Chair for the Committee of Doctors in Training.
An Associate Lecturer at UQ, Emma also has achieved a Master of Public Health and Master of Human Nutrition, as well as several first author international journal publications. Her passion lies in implementing changes at a systematic level to optimise healthcare broadly.
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Dr PS Bhowmik
Dr Bhowmik is an emergency consultant at Joondalup Health Campus and Kalgoorlie Health Campus with a deep passion for education. After graduating with a medical degree from India, Dr. Bhowmik immigrated to Australia in 2009 and completed specialty training in the country.
Currently, Dr Bhowmik serves as the Director of Emergency Training at Joondalup ED and the Director of Clinical Training for Joondalup PGME. In these roles, Dr Bhowmik coordinates and runs a variety of educational programmes, including critical care and clinical leadership workshops and ACEM fellowship preparation.
As a director of the Medskillz Education Group, Dr Bhowmik contributes to organising critical care workshops for junior doctors in Western Australia. Additionally, Dr Bhowmik is committed to supporting junior doctors, particularly International Medical Graduates (IMGs), through orientation and support programmes at Joondalup Health Campus, a role held for the past five years.
Dr Daniel Heidegger
Dr Heidegger is a Junior Medical Officer (PGY-2) in the Central Coast Local Health District (NSW). Interested in critical care medicine, medical education and ultrasonography.
Dr Anna Braye
Dr Braye is a Resident Medical Officer at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital in NSW. She represents Wagga on the NSW HETI Forum for Prevocational Trainees.
Dr Meyer is a Resident Medical Officer at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, NSW.
Dr Penny Stewart
Penny has worked in Alice Springs Hospital in the Intensive care unit for 19 years. She is the chair of the College of Intensive Care's Rural and Indigenous health committee and is a Board member. Penny is also a board member of the National Rural Health Alliance and the clinical director of the NT clinical HUB. During the time in ICU in Alice Springs she has developed an interest in Aboriginal and rural health and how the challenges are different in a remote ICU compared to a city ICU.
Penny works to promote stronger workforce in rural Australia. Penny also hopes that the Australian workforce will be better able to improve the devastating gap between Australia and the First Nation People. Penny realizes this requires cooperation, understanding and a need to walk beside each other and hear and understand the First Nation Voice.
Dr Claire McKie
Dr Claire McKie currently works as a Geriatrician and Deputy Supervisor of Intern Training at Barwon Health. She has extensive experience as an educator, with a focus on clinical communication skills training.
As a clinician and supervisor, she sees the toll that high-pressure environments take on healthcare professionals.
Claire is increasingly concentrating on using her facilitation and coaching training to focus on culture change and wellbeing at work.
Claire is exploring ways to bring emotional culture crafting and meaningful conversations about feelings into the workplace. She is passionate about helping leaders and their teams craft more compassionate, connected, inclusive and emotionally healthy workplaces.
Dr Chanetelle Larkin
Chantelle Larkin is a Resident Medical Officer at Westmead Hospital in Western Sydney. She holds a Doctor in Medicine from the University of Notre Dame Australia and Bachelor of Psychology (First Class Honours) from Macquarie University. She previously worked for Fire & Rescue NSW in Education and Training.
Prof Graeme Maguire
Graeme Maguire is Director Medical Education for WA Country Health Service. WACHS is the health service responsible for health care delivery to more than 500 000 people across 2.5 million square kilometres of rural Western Australia through more than 100 health care sites and six regional referral centres. WACHS is committed to growing our own medical workforce through active selection of rurally inclined students and junior doctors and by providing flexible and rurally based prevocational and vocational training pathways Maguire
Dr Alyce Finch
Alyce is the President of the Resident Medical Officer's Association the representative body for all doctors-in-training at WWBH and a General Clinical Training Council (GCTC) representative.
Dr Anna Braye
Anna is the elected WWBH Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) representative to the NSW Junior Medical Officer Forum, an advisory subcommittee of the NSW Prevocational Training Council (PvTC).
A/Prof Christina Johnson
A/Prof. Christina Johnson is the Director Monash Doctors Education and a General Medicine Physician at Monash Health. She has a PhD in medical education and her major research interests are in workplace learning including feedback, learning and assessment, and remediation.
Dr William Zhou
Dr William Zhou is a Resident Medical Officer at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney.
Ariadne Forman
Ariadne became a medical education officer at Gold Coast Health in May 2018. Ari is a pharmacist by background with extensive experience across a wide variety of specialities including paediatrics, women’s and neonatal intensive care. Ari is also a sessional teaching associate at Monash University and a small group learning facilitator at Bond University. She strives to bring theory into practice.
Ari is passionate about improving the intern experience. She has an active role as an intern training program assessor through Prevocational Medical Accreditation Queensland and sits on several committees locally that provide advocacy and support for junior doctors within Gold Coast Health.
Dr Elizaveta Rakhmanova
Dr Jurat Danika
Dr Danika Jurat is a clinician currently working as an Medical Student Education Registrar at Royal Perth Hospital. Concurrently, she is undertaking her Doctor of Philosophy through Curtin University. Danika has a keen interest in education and research.
Maria Ji
Maria Yeonhee Ji is a doctor and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her passions include clinical education, burnout prevention, surgery, women’s health, and equity for LGBTQIA+ patients. In 2024 she took on the role of Prevocational Medical Education Fellow in the Clinical Education & Training Unit to develop her skills in clinical education and focus on advocacy for improving junior doctor welfare at Te Toka Tumai Auckland.
Prof Andrew Teodorczuk
Professor Andrew Teodorczuk is the Director of Clinical Training at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and a practicing Old Age Psychiatrist. He is also the Deputy Chair of the Education Committee, RANZCP and President of the Australasian Delirium Association. As an Education
researcher he has published over 100 research articles. Areas of interest include work-based learning, wellbeing and resilience.
Dr Yoshua Selvadurai
Yoshua is a junior doctor working in the Central Coast Local Health District. He is passionate about medical education and expanding the population that has access to credible health information. Hence, he created the Instagram medical education page - Midnight Medicine. In a past life he was a national level track athlete. He hopes his next travel destination is Canada so he can visit the places he was too young to enjoy as a toddler growing up in Toronto. In his spare time he enjoys creative writing, football, tennis and chess.
A/Prof Emma Kennedy
Assoc Prof Emma Kennedy is a Specialist General Practitioner and Director of the Northern Territory Medical Program. She has combined her experience in education and General Practice in medical student, post graduate training and clinical care. The person centred approach is important to both, supported through reflective practice. She was Board Chair of the NT GP Education program for 6 years and is a Graduate of the AICD.
Dr Kishan Pandithage
Dr Kishan Pandithage is a Senior Specialist General Practitioner supervising medical students and GP registrars in General Practice and leading the Simulation based Consultation skills program in the Northern Territory Medical Program. This program offers students opportunity to practice consultation skills and receive feedback to guide their development of a person centred health care approach.
Ngarie Kelly
Ms Ngarie Kelly is a Medical Education Officer in NALHN with an administrative background. Ngarie focuses on developing sustainable and pragmatic systems to support both students and trainees in the network. She is the lead for our student placement program and supports prevocational trainees
Dr Andrew Vanlint
Dr Andrew Vanlint is a Haematologist, General Physician and Clinical Educator, working in the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network. SA Health's Young Professional of the Year in 2021, Andrew is known for his work in clinical documentation improvement, professional accountability and the use of video-based resources for education in both undergraduate and postgraduate training settings. You can find his resources online by searching ‘Med Ed with Andrew’ on YouTube and other platforms
Tachelle Ting
Ms Tachelle Ting is a medical student, currently studying at Flinders University and undertaking several research projects including this qualitative study into junior doctor's perspectives on resusication plan discussions with patients and families.
Sheela Joseph
MBBS and MD Pathology from India, M.Sc Public Health (LSHTM) and PhD from Charles Darwin University. She has been involved in teaching Pathology since 1993 as a post graduate trainee. Commenced as a lecturer in histopathology in the Northern Territory Medical Program 2010. Her PhD research was titled 'Analysis of surgical margins in mucosal head and neck squamous cell carcinoma using molecular markers p53 and e IF4E'. She is passionate about teaching and mentoring medical students.
Dr Madison Brown
Dr. Madison Brown is the Waitematā District Medical Education Fellow, responsible for their prevocational education programme. She is an Honorary Lecturer in General Medicine for the University of Auckland and Advanced Trainee Registrar in Infectious Disease and General Medicine, with over seven years of clinical experience working across New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Madison has always been passionate about teaching, evidenced by her heavy involvement in both medical student and junior doctor education in a variety of settings throughout her career
Kiri Rikihana
Kiri is the Deputy Chief Executive of the Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa The Medical Council of New Zealand, her responsibilities include notifications, legal investigations, and education and accreditation of training providers.
Kiri sits on the Specialist Education Accreditation Committee for the Australian Medical Council, and the Board of Directors of Tu Ora Compass Health Primary Health Organisation.
Kiri has led organisational and culture change in several organisations to advance knowledge and confidence in health equity, Māori health, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and cultural safety.
Dr Natalie Russell
Dr Natalie Russell is the 2024 Prevocational Medical Education Fellow at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. Natalie is a medical registrar who has a passion for clinician education and development of systems/processes to support good mental health outcomes in junior doctors.
Dr Sara Zabeen
Dr Sara Zabeen is a Lecturer at the Flinders University, NT, Australia. She is an early career researcher who has recently completed her PhD from the Flinders Behavioural Health unit. Her research primarily involves integrated care (improved cardiovascular health and quality of life in people with severe mental illness), social prescribing and recovery, Indigenous kidney health, climate change, and sustainable development. Dr Zabeen is an expert in qualitative methodology, realist evaluation and mixed methods. She is the founder of the Mental Health Professional Network- Darwin Chapter of Social Prescribing (2023) and Auritry Foundation (2020). The latter works to reduce plastic pollution and was recognised as a ‘climate advocate’ at the 16th UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (2022). She is a reviewer of 12 high-ranked international health journals (Q1/Q2) and sits on the Flinders Human Research Ethics Committee.
Dr Anthony Llewellyn
Anthony Llewellyn has been the Chair of Accreditation for SAMET since and has recently been appointed as an Education Specialist with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
Anthony is also the Managing Director and the face of AdvanceMed and the Career Doctor YouTube Channel. A Consultant Psychiatrist with extensive medical education and medical human resources experience, Anthony has served over 12 years in various Managerial and Directorial roles, including 4 years as the Medical Director of the Health Education & Training Institute
Stella Sarlos
Stella is an endocrinologist in the Departments of Diabetes and Endocrinology at Monash Health and Peninsula Health, and in Clinical Andrology at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research. Stella has extensive involvement in medical education across many levels, including medical students, prevocational training and physician advanced training and recently completed the Master of Clinical Education at the University of Melbourne to support her developing expertise in education. She is Director of Clinical Training at Peninsula Health, having previously served as a Director of Clinical Training at Monash Health. She coordinates the Monash University medical student year 3 program at the Peninsula Clinical School and is adjunct lecturer at the School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University. Stella was the RACP specialist advisor in 2023 for the Endocrinology Advanced Training Curriculum Revision process. She is Co-Convenor of the Endocrine Society of Australia Seminar Conference, which focusses on education of Endocrinology Advanced Trainees.
Vanessa Pitts
Vanessa Pitts is a final-year medical student at the University of Newcastle, currently completing her studies within the Joint Medical Program. Throughout her academic journey, Vanessa has demonstrated a keen interest in medical education and the challenges faced by students transitioning from pre-clinical to clinical practice. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing 'transition shocks' to improve educational outcomes and student well-being. Vanessa is passionate about enhancing mentorship and support systems within medical education, ensuring future healthcare professionals are well-prepared. She is dedicated to contributing to the field through her research and advocacy.
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Mathew Weston
Matthew Weston is the Principal Medical Education Officer at West Moreton Health. Matthew has completed a Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Paramedicine and a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education. His interests within the Medical Education field are teaching skills and watching the prevocational doctors achieving milestone
Anita Kocsis
Anita Kocsis is a Senior Medical Education Officer at West Moreton Health. She has completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Health. Her interests within Medical Education lie within Junior doctor mental health and wellbeing.
Dr Siobhan Hensey
Dr Siobhan Hensey is a newly fellowed GP, living and working on Larrakia Country in the Northern Territory. Having completed her GP training across the Top End, she has a keen interest in remote healthcare and communication.
Dr Richard Fejo
Dr. Richard “Richie” Fejo is a Larrakia Man from Darwin from his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather in what culture calls “Grandfather lore”. Richard is also Warumungu from Tennant Creek on his mother’s side and holds a great amount of cultural knowledge and experiences from both northern and Central Australia across the Northern Territory. Richie is currently the Senior Elder on Campus at Flinders University (NT).
Dr Warren Adie
Dr Warren Adie is an Emergency Physician and Retrieval Consultant working at Alice Springs Hospital. He is coDEMT, NT Regional Deputy Censor, Associateship of Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine Coordinator, Associate professor at Charles Darwin university, Mentorship coordinator and has an interest in using bedside ultrasound as a pillar of patient management. He has a passion for providing quality patient centred care in rural and remote regions with a focus in developing and supporting the next generation of emergency physicians practising in this unique and challenging area. He has recently collaborated with the Alice Springs Aboriginal Partnership and Strategic unit to develop Cultural Humility training and the Central Australian Womens Legal Service to deliver Domestic and Family Violence training. He has been utilising mobile app-based tools to deliver orientation and educational content and is happy to share his experiences.
Dr Lisa Hall
Lisa Hall is the Senior Lecturer of Education and Evaluation for Monash Rural Health Bendigo and the Education Champion for the Monash North West Victorian Regional Training Hub.
Dr MaryBeth Maclsaac
MaryBeth MacIsaac is the Director of Medical Education at Mildura base Public Hospital and a rural GP
Dr Sean MacNeilage
Sean MacNeilage is a Medical Education Officer at Mater Health, Queensland. With 10 years of experience in medical education, he has supported junior doctors in both the prevocational and vocational settings. His current role involves supporting junior doctors at Mater Health, and he has previously worked for Children's Health Queensland and with the RCPA Pathology and RANZCP Psychiatry registrar programs.
Nand Kejriwal
Nand Kejriwal recently retired from Cardiothoracic Surgery. He is currently Director of Surgical Training and Prevocational Education Supervisor in Waikato Hospital . He is also a senior lecturer in University of Auckland.
Carol Stevenson is Education Manager for NZREX Primary Care Pathway pilot programme run by Health New Zealand to help overseas doctors gain general registration.
Dr Neila Litkouhi
Neila Litkouhi is a Resident Medical Officer at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. She is the President of her Hospital’s Resident Medical Officers Association (RNSH RMOA) for 2024. Neila is passionate about improving the systems prevocational doctors work within to better protect their wellbeing and professional development. She is also a Clinical Associate Lecturer for the University of Sydney, and Associate Adjunct Lecturer for the University of New South Wales. In 2024, she attained her Associate Fellowship for the Academy of Higher Education.
Dr Sarah Rennie
Sarah Rennie is a rural general surgeon and surgical endoscopist with a passion for medical education. She studied her primary medical degree in Scotland and was then awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete a PhD in Surgical Education, looking at surgical decision-making, at Otago University. She then returned to surgical training in New Zealand where she gained her FRACS. She is the Aotearoa New Zealand Surgical Advisor for RACS and the Director of Medical Education for prevocational doctors at Te Whatu Ora Wairarapa.
Dr Ambika Wakhlu
Ambika is an advanced trainee with an interest in Rheumatology, Infectious Diseases and Education, involved this year in the implementation of the new National Framework. As the Medical Education Fellow, she is involved in teaching and developing curriculum for junior doctors including interns, physician trainees and international medical graduates.
Christopher Bartley
Chris is a Principal Medical Education Officer on the Gold Coast and has a Bachelor of Education and Graduate Certificate of Business Administration. As a School Teacher, Chris taught on the Gold Coast and in London before transitioning into medical education. In 2016, he joined the College of Radiologists (RANZCR) focusing on trainee progression, well-being, rural/regional rotations and Directors of Training development workshops. Chris recently completed the RACGP Education Activity Representative (EAR) program and was responsible for accrediting CPD activities and events for General Practitioners. At Gold Coast Health, Chris focuses on the Medicine rotations and leads the implementation of the PGY2 Framework.
Dr Karen Bromley
Dr Karen Bromley is a Medical Education Registrar and General Medicine Advanced Trainee working at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. She has been fortunate to have a great training experience so far in her career and is passionate about helping junior doctors have the same.
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Dr Kate Mannolini
Dr Kate Mannolini is a Urology Registrar, Masters of Public Health student, and current PMCWA JMO Forum Co-Chair. Her clinical interests lie in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Urology, working across both disciplines in 2024. She is passionate about Junior Medical Officers' education, support and wellbeing, and looks to identify opportunities to enhance this experience with her clinical and co-curricular roles. Outside of work, you can find her at her local beachfront or cafe.
Dr Aditya Sakalkale
Aditya graduated in 2020 with an MB BCH BAO (Hons) from University College Cork in the Republic of Ireland. He is working as a pre-SET registrar in the Department of General Surgery at Western Health in Melbourne.He is currently engaged in research, teaching, and mentoring in association with the University of Melbourne. His area of interest for research is robotic-assisted surgery in the field of General Surgery, and particularly in Surgical Education. When not at work, Aditya tries to spend most of his spare time outside whether it be hiking, running or at the beach. He loves to try and give any sport or activities a go!
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