Making it happen: Work flexibility in healthcare

Professor Helena Teede MBBS FRACP FAAHMS FRANZCOG FRCOG PhD AM is a clinician academic in women’s health.

She holds an NHMRC Investigator Fellowship in ‘implementation and impact’. She is the Director of Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, which has over 600 publications and $61M in career grant funding, mostly as CIA.

Professor Teede is a world leader in women’s health and heads the national Advancing Women in Healthcare Leadership program and the Health and Medical Research Leadership, funded by NHMRC with 23 partners. She is incoming President of the International Society of Endocrinology and on Council for the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Professor Teede brings training in leadership and heads up the now International Women in Leadership training program.   

Friyana Bhabha is a general dermatologist who trained at several major hospitals in Melbourne and Hobart following her basic physician training.  She has interests in the management of cutaneous lymphoma, skin cancer management and inflammatory dermatosis. Dr. Bhabha works as a visiting consultant at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and in private practice. She has published articles in both domestic and international Dermatology journals and has previously presented her work at the Australian College of Dermatology Conference.

Dr Ashlea White is an early career psychiatrist who holds Certificates of Advanced Training in Addiction Psychiatry and Adult psychiatry. Currently on maternity leave with three-month-old Baby Laine and two-year-old Elijah, she has worked in several roles both public and private. She is currently on leave from AODS Ipswich Hospital, PA Pain Clinic, Banyans Day Program and Ramsay Clinic New Farm. In a previous life she was a radiographer and now she is passionate about building a flexible career in psychiatry which encompasses her many interests and spending time with her growing family.  Dr White continues to be passionate about welfare issues and sits on the RANZCP Member Wellbeing Subcommittee. 

Elizabeth Elliott AM FAHMS FRSN is a distinguished Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney, an NHMRC Leadership Fellow, and a Consultant Paediatrician and Head of the NSW Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) assessment service at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. Research interests include rare childhood disorders (she is Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit), FASD, and Aboriginal child health. Professor Elliott chairs the Australian Government’s Advisory Group on FASD and the Royal Australasian College of Physician’s Gender Equity Committee in Medicine. She is a Board Director of Royal Far West and the National Organisation for FASD, Senior Advisor on Children’s Health for UNICEF Australia, and a consultant to World Health Organisation and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (US) committees addressing birth defects and FASD.

Dr Sadler is a UWA medical graduate. Her interest in dermatology developed during her residency at Fremantle Hospital. She joined a wound healing research team, which led to publishing and presenting papers both nationally and internationally.She completed a Masters of Public Health at Curtin University. On completing her training with the Australasian College of Dermatologists, she was awarded the Gold Medal Travelling Fellowship and the Founder’s Medal for Procedural Dermatology. Dr Sadler is Director of Training in the WA Faculty of Dermatologists. She practices at the Dermatology Specialist Group and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, as well as providing a monthly Outreach Dermatology service to the Pilbara.