2005 Speakers

Edith Weisberg

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Director of Research at FPA Health and lecturer, Sydney

Edith Weisberg (MB BS, MM, FACSHP, OAM) is currently the Director of Research at FPA Health and Senior Clinical lecturer in Obstetrics & gynaecology, University of Sydney. She is an acknowledged leader in the field of Women’s Health and Contraception and is a member of the International Medical Advisory Panel of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
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Deborah Saltman

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Deborah Saltman AM is Professor of General Practice, Discipline of General Practice at the University of Sydney. She has had 20 years of professional experience in developing and delivering educational programs for health workers in Europe, Asia and Australia. Her particular interests include strengthening primary health care systems clinical, research and leadership foundations through training which has involved designing experiential training curricula, running train-the-trainer workshops and designing learning materials such as manuals and audio-visual aids.
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Susan Phillips

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Susan Phillips is Medical Director and Co-ordinator Women’s Health Program. Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Toronto. Susan’s areas of clinical and research interest include Women’s Health, Gender Issues, Social Determinants of Health and she has been widely published in these areas.
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Tom Mayze

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Tom Mayze is a Queensland Medical graduate and Psychiatrist in private practice in Brisbane. His practice is restricted to the assessment and management of mood and anxiety disorders. He has a longstanding interest in the co morbidity of stress, depression and cardiovascular disease and in Women’s Health.
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Dr Ian Hammond

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Gynaecologist Oncologist

(Western Australia)

Ian Hammond graduated in Medicine from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London. Initially Ian trained in Paediatrics and then O&G and ultimately in Gynaecologic Oncology in UK and Toronto.
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Jane Gunn

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Jane GunnJane Gunn is the inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research in the Department of General Practice at The University of Melbourne. A general practitioner, Jane’s doctoral research was on postnatal physical and mental health in general practice. Her current research interests include depression and related disorders and the complex interplay between emotional well-being, physical health and illness.
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Professor Ian Frazer

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Director Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research University of Queensland
Australian of the Year 2005

(Queensland)

Ian FrazerIan Frazer BSc (Hons)., MB ChB Edinburgh., FRCP(Ed)., MD., FRACPA. is director of the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, a research centre of the University of Queensland at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
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Christopher Fairley

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Christopher Fairley holds the chair in Sexual Health in Sexual Health in the Department of Public Health at The University of Melbourne and is the Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. He is a fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians, and Sexual Health Physicians and Public Health Medicine and holds a Ph D in epidemiology.
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David Bradford

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

David Bradford graduated from Sydney University in 1965 and has had an interest in Sexual Health since serving as a Regimental Medical Officer in the Australian Army in South Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. After a brief flirtation with Surgery and Orthopaedics, obtaining the FRCS from the English and Edinburgh Colleges, he spent a period in General Practice in the east end of London in the seventies and then decided to devote his professional life to Sexual Health Medicine.
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Alan Ralph

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Alan Ralph is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Principal Research Fellow at the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland. He has previously worked at James Cook University in Townsville, and Murdoch University in Perth. His main area of expertise is in the assessment and treatment of behavioural disorders in children and adolescents.
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