Caroline is currently Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns. Born in Sydney, graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Medical School in Dublin in 1973. Worked in Papua-New Guinea, then specialist training in Ireland and the UK before returning for a further stint in PNG. Returned to Australia in 1982 working first in remote WA before commencing specialist practice in Sydney – with a particular involvement in the care of immigrant and indigenous women. Moved to Cairns in 1999 and appointed to JCU in 2004, has been involved in setting up the curriculum and training program for the first cohorts of JCU students.
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David Burgner trained in the UK, Australia and Africa and completed his PhD at Oxford University. He is Western Australia’s first and currently sole paediatric infectious diseases specialist. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia. His clinical and research interests include host determinants of infectious disease susceptibility (particularly in relation to Kawasaki disease and neonatal infection) and refugee child health.

Basil Buntting, earned his basic medical degree- MB, ChB- from the University of Natal, South Africa, before embarking on a solo general medical practice in Nigel near Johannesburg. After six years as a GP, he specialized in psychiatry and gained a Master of Medicine degree or MMed (Psychiatry) at the Natal University. Through the same university he gained the research degree, Doctor of Medicine or MD.
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Dr Boothroyd is a registered endocrinologist and gynaecologist in the state of Queensland.  She is the only specialist in Queensland with full qualifications in both specialties of endocrinology and gynaecology.  Endocrinologists deal with hormone problems of both men and women and gynaecologists deal with problems related to the reproductive system of women.

Dr Boothroyd graduated from the University of Queensland in 1983 with first class honours.  She has won several prizes during her university course and her post-graduate years in women’s health and obstetric s and gynaecology.  These included the Jean and Joyce Stobo Prize 1983 awarded to the female student showing greatest proficiency in last two years of medical course, the  Kenneth Wilson Prize 1983 awarded to the student showing greatest proficiency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in last year of medical course and Co-winner of John F Dunkley Memorial Prize awarded to the student with best results in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in last two years of medical course and Co-winner of the  Elsie Butler-Williamson Memorial Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She obtained Fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians after training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1992. She sub specialised in endocrinology and undertook 2 years of medical research at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research for which she was awarded the inaugural John Tyrer Award and Master of Medical Science.  She furthered her training in endocrinology and developed her interests in women’s health in Birmingham (England) during 1992. 

On her return to Australia in 1993 she commenced training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at both the Mater Mothers’ Hospital and the Royal Women’s Hospital.  She was awarded the Organon award for Excellence for first part examination.   She is the first gynaecologist to train and obtain the Certificate of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in Queensland.  She demonstrates her commitment to improving standards of care in reproductive health in Queensland by supervising the training of specialist obstetrician and gynaecologists in reproductive endocrinology and infertility in Queensland.   Dr Boothroyd has been involved in teaching at the Graduate School of Medicine and teaches general practitioners and specialists in her area of expertise. 

She has been the Queensland Councillor and Chair of the Education Subcommittee of the Australasian Menopause Society for many years until 2006.  She is a member of the medical advisory committee of Family Planning Queensland and has been member of the medical advisory committee of Monash IVF for over five years.  She has been chair of the Department of Gynaecology of Greenslopes Private Hospital for over seven years and is currently director of training in gynaecology at Greenslopes Private Hospital.  She has been a member of the medical advisory committee of Greenslopes Private Hospital serving on many in-hospital committees including the credentialing, medical review and ethics committees and has served as Deputy Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee of Greenslopes Private Hospital.

In July 2008 she took the bold step of opening a new IVF unit at Greenslopes Private Hospital.  She did this with Dr Steven Fleming, Scientific Director.  On 25 July 2008, the thirtieth birthday of the world’s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, Assisted Conception Australia opened.  It is a state of the art facility providing the best available laboratory and consultation and embryo transfer suites in Queensland that results from many years experience of listening to patients and touring of other IVF facilities around the world.  This unit is open for inspection and details can be found on www.acaivf.com.au

Dr Boothroyd has extensive clinical experience in the complexities of couples with infertility.  She is one of only three clinicians in Queensland who have completed examination in the prestigious Certificate of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility – a full time traineeship for three years requiring strict surgical and clinical training as well as the completion of examinations.  As such she is one of the few doctors in Queensland who can truly claim to specialise in infertility.  With her background in endocrinology she has unique skills in addressing both male and female factors contributing to infertility.  She has trained in laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of endometriosis and tubal disease.  She has been actively involved in research in many a areas related to women’s health and fertility, in particular in unexplained infertility and in polycystic ovarian syndrome.  She is an acclaimed leader in her field and participates in many voluntary roles including the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Australasian Menopause Society and Family Planning Queensland.   She is a founding member of the REACT group – an Australian and New Zealand collaborative group to conduct research into treatments for infertility.  She assists in the training of both general practitioners and specialists and supervises the training of gynaecologists who wish to sub specialise or have a interest in reproductive endocrinology and gynaecology.  In addition she is happily married to Russell Bach, ophthalmologist with whom she shares medical suites and the parenting of their three children.

Jill is Director of the Health in Human Diversity Unit in the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Adelaide. She has been a GP for 25 years and currently works with refugees at the Migrant Health Service in Adelaide, in the remote Aboriginal community at Yalata and has worked in a teaching hospital in Dharan in rural eastern Nepal. She has taught and written on many topics and has presented papers on cross-cultural issues, mental health, infectious diseases and doctors health at national conferences in Australia and international conferences in Italy, Lebanon, Florida, Pakistan, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.

Director of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

Suzanne Garland (MB BS,PRCPA, FAChHM, FRANZCOG) is Director of Microbiological Research and Head of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Women’s Hospital, Senior Consultant Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Women’s and Royal Children’s Hospitals, and Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Melbourne. She is also a practicing Sexual Health Physician.

As one of Victoria’s leading Clinical Microbiologists, Professor Garland is well known for her research on infectious diseases, having been involved in clinical trials of antivirals and vaccines for herpes simplex virus. She has a special interest in the management of herpes in the pregnant woman and the neonate. She is an advisor to WHO in the area of sexually transmitted infection diagnosis and the prophylactic HPV vaccine.

Jane 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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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.

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.
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