Careers A In this section Careers C1 CAREER OVERVIEW MJ The year that was Career overview C5 MEDICAL MENTOR Heads Beach and a fantastic reception afterwards at Oscars. Dr Tonia Marquardt The year Dr Jane Berry What will you do on Christmas Day? Fly from Brisbane to Adelaide then out C6 to Victor Harbor to celebrate with my that was partner Georgie’s family. ROAD LESS TRAVELLED What are you most looking forward Finding refuge to in 2013? My research unit getting out of the red into the black — we had a tough time in 2011 with fl ooding. C8 Also, we look forward to writing up MONEY AND some of our investigator-driven trials on PRACTICE complementary medicine. A just reward Dr Eve Merfi eld Dr Catherine Engelke, GP registrar Doctors refl ect on 2012 and their plans for and a director of the the New Year Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, Dr Eve Merfi eld, emergency physician/ Associate Kununurra, WA Professor David part-time rural general practitioner in What was the biggest development in Colquhoun, Launceston, Tasmania your specialty in 2012? The ongoing ‘‘One highlight cardiologist at Wesley What was the biggest development in development of web-based patient was the look Medical Centre, your specialty in 2012? Telehealth is a medical records. It allows medical Brisbane, QLD on the face of big advancement for remote doctors. It records to be as mobile as the patients, makes a huge difference to patients and What was the biggest development in which is extremely important in the a 7-year-old gives doctors more support to manage your specialty in 2012? As my focus Kimberley. Aboriginal is prevention, the biggest development complex problems. What was your professional was seeing the data on initial studies girl … when highlight? I received the Royal What was your professional into PCSK-9 monoclonal antibody. Australian College of General I suggested highlight? I spent nine months on An injection once a month will lower Macquarie Island, as the doctor to a Practitioners General Practice Registrar that she low-density lipoprotein cholesterol of the Year award. This was a surprise small community. I not only cared for by 60% as a single agent or on top of too could 40 people, I was vet to 12 dogs! and a huge honour. background therapy. This is the next become a What was your personal highlight? big break in atherosclerosis prevention. What was your personal highlight? On Macquarie Island I saw half a One highlight was the look on the face doctor What was your professional of a 7-year-old Aboriginal girl, which million penguins in one colony, highlight? I’m chair of the Heart albatrosses fl ying overhead and changed from disbelief to excitement Foundation’s psychosocial risk factor when I suggested that she too could elephant seals being born. and coronary heart disease working become a doctor with continued ”Dr Catherine Engelke What will you do on Christmas Day? group. We fi nally fi nished our attendance and hard work at school. I will enjoy good food, wine and great statement on screening for and treating Her mother told her that I was not only company with my partner and friends. depression in patients with coronary a doctor but was Aboriginal and had heart disease, which we look forward grown up in Halls Creek, so what I was What are you most looking forward to sharing. suggesting really was achievable. to in 2013? Settling back into “normal” life and practice back home and What was your personal highlight? What will you do on Christmas Day? watching my vegie patch fl ourish. My daughter’s wedding at Burleigh It’s a very special day, which I will spend continued on page C2 Editor: Marge Overs • [email protected] • (02) 9562 6666 Careers continued from page C1 initially with immediate family (my Professor Ian Olver, have a wonderful husband, a gorgeous parents and siblings and their families) chief executive offi cer, toddler daughter who lights up my life and then with extended family at my Cancer Council Australia, and a job I adore and am passionate in-laws’ family farm. Sydney, NSW about. Pinch me? What are you most looking forward What was the biggest What will you do on Christmas Day? to in 2013? Hopefully, a lot more of development in your specialty in I will attempt to host a gourmet lunch the same. I am blessed to have one of 2012? Some highlights were the for my family while desperately hoping the best jobs, combining remote and introduction of plain packaging of people don’t try out their new power rural general practice and emergency tobacco, the government’s plan to tools or explode their barbecues, as I medicine in the Kimberley. complete the National Bowel Cancer am on call for Hands and Burns! Screening Program and moves to open Professor Euan an Offi ce of Asbestos Safety. What are you most looking forward to in 2013? My life will no longer be Wallace, director ‘‘ What was your professional I will attempt ruled by a pager! The year is full of of The Ritchie Centre, highlight? I published my third promise with time on Fellowship in the Monash Institute of to host a book, Investigating prayer — impact on United Kingdom, some quality family Medical Research, and gourmet health and quality of life. It describes time and travel. director of obstetrics the complex relationship between lunch for my and gynaecology at Southern Health, spirituality and the wellbeing and Professor David Melbourne, VIC quality of life of patients with cancer. family while Brewster, clinical What was the biggest development What was your personal highlight? desperately director of paediatrics, in your specialty in 2012? Attending my son Chris’s graduation hoping people The Canberra Hospital, The 40th anniversary of the World from the Kennedy School at Harvard ACT Health Organization human don’t try out University. He completed a Masters reproduction program. Its work is What was the biggest development Degree in Public Policy. their new based on fi ve themes: improving in your specialty in 2012? The African pregnancy, perinatal, postpartum and What will you do on Christmas Day? power tools or bolus trial showing that intravenous newborn care; providing accessible I will be at Carrickalinga in South explode their bolus therapy for compound shock family planning and infertility services; Australia surrounded by family, caused more deaths than using no removing unsafe abortion; reducing including our fi rst granddaughter barbecues, as bolus. sexually transmitted diseases; and Isabelle, who has just turned one. I am on call What was your professional enhancing sexual health and health What are you most looking forward for Hands and highlight? Learning how to deal with rights. The WHO continues to lead to in 2013? Travelling to the Antarctic behavioural problems in children in the way in global reproductive health, Burns in January and photographing that developing countries, where extended saving the lives of countless millions of spectacular environment. family, not doctors, deal with these women and children. Dr Justine O’Hara issues. This was a new area of clinical What was your professional Dr Justine O’Hara, ” paediatric practice for me. highlight? Two years ago, Southern plastic and reconstructive Health established Victoria’s fi rst public surgery registrar at What was your personal highlight? hospital home birth service as a pilot Concord Hospital, Attending the Multicultural Festival program. It has been thrilling to see its Sydney, NSW in Canberra as well as other cultural popularity grow rapidly this year. activities throughout the year. Canberra What was the biggest development benefi ts from high-quality music in your specialty in 2012? The What was your personal highlight? concerts, theatre and cinema compared scientifi c reality of tissue engineering, It was a big year for my family. My with other places I have worked in which allows the growth of tissues daughter Ailsa turned 18, my wife as a paediatrician, such as Botswana, outside of the body that can be Karen turned 50 (shh), and Karen and I Zimbabwe, Malawi, The Gambia, small had our silver wedding anniversary. used in breast reconstruction. These Pacifi c Islands and even Darwin. tissues can be transplanted with What will you do on Christmas Day? microsurgery, enabling multiple What will you do on Christmas Day? Our extended families live in Scotland, reconstructions without a donor site. Go for a long bushwalk with family at so we will spend Christmas Day at our This has enormous implications in Pebbly Beach on the NSW south coast. favourite restaurant, on the 55th fl oor reconstructing many defects. of Rialto Towers in Melbourne. What are you most looking forward What was your professional to in 2013? Going to Timor-Leste on What are you most looking forward highlight? I passed my Fellowship a four-year contract with the Royal to in 2013? Many of the new therapies exams in plastic and reconstructive Australasian College of Surgeons to for high-risk pregnancies that we have surgery. train Timorese doctors in paediatrics. been developing in The Ritchie Centre labs will move out into our clinical What was your personal highlight? services at Monash. 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