Register now for this year’s Australian and New Zealand Prevocational Medical Education Forum 2024 in Darwin

This year’s theme is Rising to the Challenge – Sustainability, Community, Culture.

Keynote Speakers Include

Prof Jaquelyne T Hughes – BMed FRACP PHD  | Professor Jaquelyne Hughes is a Torres Strait Islander woman (Wagadagam), and the inaugural Clinical Research Professor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Advancement within Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Rural and Remote Health, NT. Prof Hughes is a specialist physician (nephrologist), with experience in chronic kidney disease, dialysis and health systems research and health systems innovative transformation.

Dr Olivia O’Donoghue is descendant of the Yankunytjatjara and the Narungga Nations peoples. She is a General Practitioner who gained Fellowship with RACGP in 2012 and has worked in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health in the Northern Territory, across urban and remote footprints. She currently visits Yadu Health in Ceduna.

Olivia has extensive Medical and Cultural Educator experience. Olivia works as the lead Medical Educator for the Indigenous GP Trainee Network (IGPTN), supporting and mentoring Indigenous GPs in training and GPs interested in medical education. Olivia was the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Censor for the RACGP Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health from 2020 to 2023 and has now transitioned to be the first National Clinical Head of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Torres Strait Islander Training for the RACGP.

Olivia is a current board director for the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association.

Assoc Prof Rhys Jones Rhys Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu), is a public health physician and Associate Professor in Māori Health at Waipapa Taumata Rau / the University of Auckland. He has a leadership role in Māori Health teaching and learning in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. His teaching excellence has been recognised nationally and internationally, including the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Excellence in Tertiary Teaching in 2020. Rhys’s research addresses Indigenous health and health equity, with an emphasis on environmental wellbeing and decolonial approaches to planetary health. He is a passionate advocate for health equity, Indigenous rights and climate justice. Rhys was a founding co-convenor of OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council, and is co-director of Climate Health Aotearoa, a national climate change and health research network.

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