WHERS » 2004 Speakers

Jane Turner

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Jane Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Queensland, with responsibility for teaching medical students in the MBBS program. Her clinical work and research interests include wellness following cancer treatment, and issues facing patients and their families coping with advanced cancer. Dr Turner is involved in communication skills training and in the development and dissemination of Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of women with breast cancer and psychosocial care of adults with cancer.

Ian Scott

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Ian Scott is Director of the Internal Medicine Department and the Clinical Services Evaluation Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, and is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland.

He chairs the Brisbane Cardiac Consortium; is program co-sponsor for the Queensland Health Collaborative for Healthcare Improvement (CHI); chairs the CHI Cardiac Collaborative; is a member of the Heart Failure Advisory Group of the National Institute for Clinical Studies and member of the Medical Quality Board of Queensland Health; and is principal investigator for the West Moreton Cardiovascular Outcomes Program (WESTCOP) in Queensland.

He has research and teaching interests in cardiology, evidence-based medicine, health services evaluation, quality improvement and medical education.

Susan Roberts

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Susan Roberts is a psychiatrist in private practice with a special interest in perinatal psychiatry. Susan is currently working at the Gold Coast Obstetric and Gynaecology Specialist Services at Pindara Place, Gold Coast.

Michael Quinn

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Professor Michael Quinn
MB,ChB MGO MRCP (UK); FRANZCOG; FRCOG; CGO

Current Appointments
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne
Consultant Oncology/Dysplasia Unit, Royal Women’s Hospital. Melbourne

Publications List
193 refereed publications
3 books
9 book chapters
2 Monographs

Editorial Boards
Gynecologic Oncology
International Journal of Gynaecological Oncology

Committees
Chair of the Australian & New Zealand Gynaecologic Oncology Trials Group
Chair Elect and Executive of the Gynecological Cancer Inter-Group,
Member Advisory Group, National Centre for Gynaecological Cancer

Gino Pecoraro

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Gino is a gynaecologist in private practice on Brisbane’s Wickham Terrace with a special interest in menopause and endometriosis. He works at Mater Mothers and Royal Women’s Hospital as a visiting obstetrician and is actively involved in undergraduate and registrar teaching. He is an examiner for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists where he is a senior examiner for the Diploma and a regular examiner for the Membership. He is also a senior examiner with the Australian Medical Council.

He has a keen interest in medical journalism and writes for a number of women’s magazines including New Idea where he is the resident gynaecologist. He is the regular “Morning Medico” on Radio 612 ABC in Brisbane and starting in February will host fortnightly talk back sessions available statewide on women’s health issues. He gives lectures to interested GPs and women in the community with many sessions televised to rural women’s groups via the “Women’s Health Queensland Wide” network.

Cheryn Palmer

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A Fellow of the Australasian College of Sexual Health Physicians, with over 10 years of clinical experience, post graduate study, professional development and teaching activities. A dedicated and enthusiastic team member with specialist skills in HIV and Sexual Health Medicine, Sexual Assault Forensic examination, a background in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and a growing interest in Public Health Medicine.

Dr Colm O’Mahony

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Consultant Physician in Genito-Urinary Medicine, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust, Chester.

(United Kingdom)

Colm O’Mahony MD., FRCP., BSc., Dip.Ven. is a Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust. He deals with sexually transmitted infections, HIV / AIDS and psychosexual medicine. He was the Postgraduate Tutor in that Trust from 1992 to 1999.

He first qualified in Science with a degree in Microbiology in 1975, and then went on to do Medicine, in the hope of putting off the day when he would finally have to work for a living! He was never clever enough to ever become a “real proper doctor” and he liked talking to patients far too much to ever consider being a surgeon. Fortuitously, he ended up in a VD Clinic in Sir Patrick Dunn’s Hospital in Dublin, doing a session, and there – like St Paul on the road to Damascus, enlightenment. Here was just the job for your average repressed Irish Catholic. There was sex, shame, guilt, anxiety, confession, forgiveness and penance. He had found his niche!

He came to England in 1986 to explore the sexual diversity of Liverpool and finally to a Consultant post in Chester in 1990. As Postgraduate Tutor he infuriated and delighted; exposing the farce of fund holding, the idiocy of audit, and the small-minded bureaucracy of cynical governance. Most of all, he showed that life without “sex, love, passion and desire” is no life – at all, at all”.

He was elected as Chairman of the National Association of GU Doctors in 2001. He worked with the BBC and has done several programmes, the most popular of all being “Sex, warts and all” shown on BBC Choice 2002. He was the Sex Doctor on the BBC Choice website www.bbc.co.uk/choice/sexwartsandall/ answering questions by e-mail from distressed young people for a year, until the Daily Mail complained about soft porn on the BBC who then scrapped the site, December 2002. Some of the feature articles are now on the Chester Clinic Website.

Dr O’Mahony occasionally does after-dinner talks, and writes a regular piece in the Journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections, entitled “Chester Chronicles” and an editorial “View from the frontline” in the INT J STD AIDS.

Jim Muir

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Jim Muir is visiting dermatologist Mater Hospital, South Brisbane. Dermatologist for ‘Tele-Derm’ , a on line dermatology consultation and educational service provided by The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, The Queensland Divisions of General Practice and the Federal Department of Health.

Chairman of Brisbane Hospitals Dermatology Group.

Special interests; Acne, skin and internal disease, psychiatric disease and the skin, cutaneous malignancy.

Dermatologist in private practice at Carina, Brisbane.

‘Tele-Derm is a free online dermatological consultation and educational service for all Australian doctors. It went on line in early January.It can be accessed via rrmeo@acrrm.org.au. Alternatively contact the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine at 07-33528600.’

Geraldine Moses

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Geraldine is a doctor of clinical pharmacy who for the past sixteen years has specialised in drug information services. Based at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, Geraldine manages the Adverse Medicine Events Line, a national service for adverse drug reaction reporting by consumers.

Geraldine contributes much to health professional education, lecturing at the University of Queensland, QUT and Bond University for undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy, podiatry, optometry, dental, nursing and medical students. She is also a member of several boards and committees including the Pharmaceutical Society state branch council and the Pharmaceutical Beneifts Advisory committee for Veterans Affairs. However, she is perhaps best known for her regular appearances on radio and TV as a pharmacy spokesperson

Barbara Leggett

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Barbara Leggett is Director of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Senior Staff Specialist, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Associate Professor in Medicine, University of Queensland, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research.

Barbara was awarded an MD in ‘99’ from the university of Queensland. In recent years she has held the position of Head, Queensland Familial Adenomatous, Polyposis Register 1997-2001. Director, Queensland Bowel Cancer Family Registry, 1997-2002. President, Gastroenterological Society of Australia, 2001-2003.