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Healthed work with a team of general practitioners and medical professionals to ensure the highest quality education​

Prof Ernest Somerville

Ernest Somerville is Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Service of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales.
Ernie studied medicine at Sydney University and received his training in neurology and epilepsy at Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
He established the epilepsy surgery program at Westmead Hospital in Sydney and became head of the Prince of Wales program in 2003. With Andrew Bleasel, he set up the ANZAN Annual Course in Clinical EEG and has directed the Epilepsy Society of Australia’s Course in Clinical Epilepsy since 2006. He has lectured extensively in Australia and Asia. Research interests include clinical epilepsy, EEG, driving, epilepsy in developing countries and seizure aggravation by anti-epileptic drugs.
He established the East Timor National Epilepsy Training Program, which trains Timorese health workers to diagnose and manage epilepsy and performs community education.
He is a Past President of the ESA and chairs the Driving Committees of ANZAN and the ESA.
He has received an Ambassador for Epilepsy Award from the International League Against Epilepsy and International Bureau for Epilepsy and awards from the Epilepsy Society of Australia and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists.

A/Prof Daryl Efron

A/Prof Daryl Efron is a paediatrician who has worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 30 years and currently holds appointments as a general paediatrician in the department of General Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital, associate professor in the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, and senior research fellow in the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
Daryl is active in research into better ways to treat children with developmental disorders such as autism, ADHD and Tourette syndrome.
He sees children with a wide range of health concerns, from babies through to teenagers, and enjoys working with families to develop creative solutions to difficult problems.

Dr Mary Wyatt

Dr Mary Wyatt is a General Practitioner at Grove Medical Victoria Park, with a passion for children’s and women’s health. In addition to her clinical work, she is an active member of the WA RACGP Faculty Council as well as on the AMA WA council and board. She is also an early adopter of technology in her practice, having incorporated the use of an AI scribe for the past 4 months to enhance patient care. Dr Wyatt’s approach to healthcare is holistic and patient-centered, ensuring that her patients feel welcomed and comfortable. She is interested in leveraging technology to improve the patient experience in her clinic.

Dr Urvashnee Singh

Dr Singh is the Medical Director and Founder of Esus Centre, Australia’s first licensed eating disorder day hospital, established in February 2024. Before this, she led the inpatient eating disorder program at The Hollywood Clinic from 2013-2022, where she managed a successful multidisciplinary team to optimize patient outcomes and reduce hospital stays. She also developed and implemented the country’s first binge eating program, addressing the need for specialized care for this prevalent disorder. Believing in a more integrated and robust treatment model for eating disorders, she co-founded Esus Centre with Clinical Psychologist Kerry Mairs and Dr. Susan Cann, a specialist eating disorder GP. Esus Centre offers high-intensity and low-intensity treatment programs adolescent and adult day hospital programs, along with a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic and a GP monitoring service. This innovative approach aims to reduce the negative impact of fragmented care and intervene early to prevent severe medical and psychological consequences that require hospitalisation.

Mr Saud Hamza

Mr Saud Hamza is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Western Australia and a consultant Breast / General Surgeon at Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals. Mr Hamza specializes in Breast/Thyroid and General Surgery surgical conditions.

Expert panel – Dr Jane Elliott AM, Prof Bronwyn Stuckey, facilitated by Dr Terri Foran

Dr Jane Elliott AM has been a GP in Adelaide for many years, with a special career interest in women’s health, including menopause and premature menopause. She is a clinical senior lecturer in the Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Adelaide and teaches medical students and GPs. She has been an investigator in clinical research trials in all areas of women’s health including menopause, contraception, osteoporosis and low libido. She currently consults at AWARE Women’s Health. Jane is a Past President of the Australasian Menopause Society. Prof Bronwyn Stuckey is a clinical endocrinologist with a special interest in reproductive endocrinology. She is a consultant endocrinologist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, Medical Director of the Keogh Institute for Medical Research and Clinical Professor in the Medical School, University of Western Australia. She is a Past President of the Australasian Menopause Society, a Life Member of the Endocrine Society of Australia, and a Member of the Order of Australia. She is very interested in the influence of reproductive hormones on metabolism. Dr Terri Foran is a Sexual Health Physician and has a special interest in contraception, menopause issues and the management of sexually transmitted infections. She was previously the Medical Director of Family Planning NSW and is now in clinical practice in Darlinghurst. She is also engaged in both clinical and research work at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. Dr Foran holds the position of Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health. She coordinates Phase 2 of their undergraduate Women’s Health program as well as supervising a number of modules in the Masters of Reproductive Medicine and Masters of Women’s Health Medicine Programs offered by UNSW.

Dr Sara Whitburn, Dr Alison Creagh

Dr Sara Whitburn is the Deputy Medical Director at Sexual Health Victoria. She has a Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practice, has Diplomas in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Family Planning. Sara specialises in genital health, menopause, and IUD insertion training. Sara is excited about enabling healthcare professionals to deliver great sexual and reproductive healthcare. Dr Alison Creagh has been the Medical Educator at SHQ for 24 years, teaching doctors, medical students and others about sexual and reproductive health. Her background was principally women’s health and general practice.

Dr Kathryn Robertson

Dr Kathryn Robertson is an educator at Medical Protection Society and The Cognitive Institute. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and has more than 35 years of experience as a GP.

Prof Natasha Nassar

Professor Natasha Nassar is a perinatal and paediatric epidemiologist, Financial Markets Foundation for Children Chair in Translational Childhood Medicine and NHMRC Leadership Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics and Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney. She is also the Charles Perkins Centre Populations Domain Leader with a key role in facilitating population-based research investigating cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and other related conditions across a wide range of disciplines.

Antonia Shand

I am a research fellow at the University of Sydney, where I am undertaking clinical and population based research about pregnancy and childhood outcomes. I am also a Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) Specialist and Obstetrician at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. My areas of expertise and interest include medical complications in pregnancy, infections in pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and perinatal loss. I am a PhD student at the University of Sydney.

Dr Oliver Waters

Dr Waters is a consultant Gastroenterologist who works publicly at Fiona Stanley Hospital and privately at St John of God Murdoch. He has an interest in inflammatory bowel disease and general luminal gastroenterology. His real interest is problem solving, which has led to some interesting areas of work including designing and setting up virtual clinics, setting up a faecal (poo) transplantation service in WA in partnership with Australian Red Cross Life Blood, and also founding a health data start-up, Kabisa Medical, and designing, building and testing a provider agnostic cloud-based pathology data platform – myPathology.

Peter Baldwin

I am an academic clinical psychologist with an interest in technology-enabled therapies and mental health policy. My research experience ranges from laboratory neuroscience, to clinical trials, to population health methods. I am also a practicing clinician, spending most of my time working with clients experiencing OCD, hoarding, PTSD and complex trauma.

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