Senior Lecturer, Northern Territory Medical Program
College of Medicine and Public Health
After growing up in the Samford Valley on the outskirts of Brisbane - I moved to Cairns for two years as a junior doctor, back to Brisbane for a decade and since 1997 I have lived and worked in Alice Springs, NT. Twenty years experience from the early 2000s as a medical doctor -General Practitioner (GP) working in the Aboriginal Medical Service based in Alice Springs which included two years working in Utju (Areyonga) 220kms west of Alice Springs.
I've also spent time living in Yasothon, Thailand, and Smithers, B.C. Canada with my husband and five (now adult) children.
MBBS University of Queensland 1985
Master of Tropical Health - University of Queensland 1989
Graduate Diploma of Social Science (Counselling) QUT 1994
Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 2009
Diploma of Child Health - Westmead Children's Hospital ( with University of Sydney) 2011