Speakers
Dr Mary Wicks is a specialist physician based in Alice Springs. She has provided specialist care to urban and remote Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory since 2012.
She is passionate about providing better healthcare to Aboriginal peoples of Central Australia by better understanding intergenerational and atypical diabetes as well as intercultural relationships and communication.
Professor Bart Currie
Director of Infectious Diseases and Professor of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital and the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin
Professor Bart Currie is an infectious diseases and public health physician at Royal Darwin Hospital and Professor in Medicine at the Northern Territory Medical Program. He leads the Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases team at Menzies School of Health Research.
Previous roles include, Director of Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia, Director of HOT NORTH (NHMRC-funded Improving Health Outcomes across Northern Australia Program).
He has also been a fundamental member of various committees such as the National COVID-19 Health and Research Advisory Committee (NCHRAC), the Technical Reference Group for the Australian Government’s Regional Health Security Initiative, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the NHMRC CRE CREID and Chair of the Expert Reference Panel of the NHMRC CRE APPRISE.
He began both the Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study and the Darwin Prospective Snakebite Study 35 years ago.
He likes to think of his mojo as coordinating links between clinicians, public health colleagues and other service providers, laboratory scientists and community.
Dr Bo Remenyi
Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Darwin Hospital and Menzies School of Health ResearchRead more
Dr Bo Remenyi
Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Darwin Hospital and Menzies School of Health Research
Dr Bo Remenyi is a paediatric cardiologist based in Darwin. She is an internationally-recognised expert in the rheumatic heart disease field and tackling the Northern Territory’s rate of Rheumatic Heart Disease, which is one of the highest in the world.
Bo is a senior staff specialist at the Royal Darwin Hospital of the Northern Territory of Australia and services many remote Indigenous communities in the region.
She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research where she obtained her PhD. Her research and clinical interests lie in equitable service delivery, echocardiographic screening and early diagnosis of RHD. Her ground-breaking PhD research has been published in top tier journals Lancet and Nature Reviews Cardiology, and has seen her assist the American Heart Association and work with the World Heart Federation for global public health projects.
In 2018, Bo was the named the NT Australian of the Year and is currently a member of the National Australia Day Council Board.
Dr Alhussain Aldabbagh
Paediatrician
Dr Alhussain Aldabbagh is an early career consultant practising in developmental paediatrics with a bit of general, in Alice Springs, Central Australia.
Dr Aldabbagh trained in Aotearoa New Zealand and worked as a developmental Fellow there as well as in regional Victoria.
Dr Alvaro Cervera
Neurologist at Royal Darwin Hospital
Adjunct Professor Christine Connors OAM MBBS MPH FAFPHM
Chief Health Officer for the Northern Territory
Adjunct Professor Christine Connors is an experienced public health physician, general practitioner, researcher and health service executive with more than 35 years' experience working in health care in the Northern Territory. Christine is now the Chief Health Officer for NT.
Her field of expertise has been health system improvement to improve population health outcomes. This has included integration of health care delivery between remote primary health care services and hospitals, clinical guideline development, education and training, audit and quality improvement and revision of models of care.
Christine was nominated by Health Ministers as a member of the National Preventative Health Taskforce 2008-2009 which produced the National Preventative Health Strategy in September 2009.
She has also been actively involved in research translation with Menzies School of Health Research, with a focus on reducing skin infections, Diabetes detection and control and quality improvement in primary care.
Associate Professor
Jane Davies
Co-Director Infectious Diseases Royal Darwin Hospital, Principal Research Fellow Menzies School of Health Research
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Associate Professor Jane Davies
MBBS MRCP(UK) DTM&H FRACP PhD
Co-Director Infectious Diseases Royal Darwin Hospital
Principal Research Fellow Menzies School of Health Research
Associate Professor Jane Davies is a Principal Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research and Co-Director of Infectious Diseases at Royal Darwin Hospital.
Her research focuses on understanding and optimising care for viral infections with a focus on First Nations peoples in the Northern Territory of Australia.
She leads work around Hepatitis B & C, Influenza and COVID-19 as well as working clinically as an Infectious Diseases and General medicine Physician at the Royal Darwin Hospital.
Dr James Dowler
General Paediatrician and Head of the ASH Paediatric Department, Alice Springs Hospital
Dr James Dowler is a
General Paediatrician based in Alice Springs and Head of the ASH Paediatric Department, since 2019.
During his time in Alice Springs, he has explored and experienced many healthcare services, capacity and delivery challenges across Central Australia.
When he initially arrived in Alice Springs his interest was in developmental medicine and has subsequently opened up an autism clinic and founded a foetal alcohol spectrum disorder clinic.
He currently lives and works in Alice Springs with his young family.
Professor Subash
Heraganahally
Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Renal Services for Top End Health Service at the Royal Darwin Hospital in DarwinRead more
Professor Subash Shanthakumar Heraganahally
Director and Head of the Respiratory and Sleep service, Royal Darwin Hospital
Professor Subash Shanthakumar Heraganahally is also a faculty at the Flinders and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory.
He has published over 90 peer reviewed papers addressing respiratory and sleep health issues amongst adult Indigenous Australians.
He is a senior member of Sleep health, Indigenous working group (Australasian Sleep Association and Sleep Health Foundation) and Australasian Bronchiectasis Consortium (Lung Foundation Australia).
He is the recipient of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand research excellence award - The Robert Pierce Grant-In-Aid for Indigenous lung Health in 2023 and Lung Foundation Australia, David Serisier Memorial Award for Translational Research in Bronchiectasis in 2024.
Professor Sandawana William Majoni
Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Renal Services for Top End Health Service at the Royal Darwin Hospital in DarwinRead more
Professor William Majoni
Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Renal Services for Top End Health Service, Royal Darwin Hospital
Professor William Majoni is a Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Renal Services for Top End Health Service at the Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin. He is also a Clinical Fellow with the Menzies School of Health Research and an Associate Professor with the Flinders University Northern Territory Medical Program.
His research interests include Indigenous Health, the epidemiology of renal, infectious, and cardiovascular diseases, access to transplantation and clinical trials to improve the evidence base for treatment of renal and cardiovascular disease.
Associate Professor Robert Parker
Director of Psychiatry, Top End Mental Health Services Associate Professor Rob Parker
Director of Psychiatry, Top End Mental Health Services
Associate Professor Rob Parker is the Director of Psychiatry for Top End Mental Health Services and the Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist with Royal Darwin Hospital.
He was a past Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Committee for the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and a member of the AMA Indigenous Health Taskforce
Dr Kannan Ramamoorthy completed his training in Haematology in NSW during 2003.
He lived in Kuwait and India for many years and then moved to Darwin in 2020.
He is interested in molecular haematology and is in the process of setting up a Next Generation Sequencing Lab in Darwin.
Dr Ju Ann Tan
Senior Staff Specialist in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology/Allergy, Royal Darwin Hospital and Palmerston Regional Hospital
Dr Ju Ann Tan is a Senior Staff Specialist in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology/Allergy at Royal Darwin and Palmerston Regional Hospitals and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Dr Tan completed an MSc in Experimental Medicine through the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) in 2017. She is currently the Clinical Lead for Immunology at RDH providing specialist care to patients with autoimmune, atopic and immunodeficiency disorders.
Her clinical and research interests are in vasculitis, systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, allergy and adult immunodeficiency syndromes.
Dr Kannan Ramamoorthy completed his training in Haematology in NSW during 2003.
He lived in Kuwait and India for many years and then moved to Darwin in 2020.
He is interested in molecular haematology and is in the process of setting up a Next Generation Sequencing Lab in Darwin.
Dr Angela Titmuss
Paediatric Endocrinologist, Royal Darwin Hospital
Dr Angela Titmuss is a Paediatric Endocrinologist at Royal Darwin Hospital, providing outreach and clinical support for paediatric endocrinology across the Northern Territory.
She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, working within the youth type 2 diabetes team of the Diabetes across the Lifecourse: Northern Australian Partnership.
Her research focuses on epidemiology, phenotypes and models of care for youth-onset type 2 diabetes.
She is also part of a national collaboration that explores best models of care for youth with gender diversity.
Associate Professor
Vicki Wade
First Nations Principal Research FellowMenzies School Of Health Research
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Vicki Wade has over 40 years working in health, she is a proud Noongar woman from south west Western Australia, Vicki has held many positions in her career including CNC Cardiology, Area Health Service of Aboriginal health, First Nations Lead of RHDA Frist Nations Lead in the Heart Foundation. She is co-chair of Deadly Heart incorporation and and a producer on the award-winning film Take Heart. Vicki has spent her career in working towards closing the heart health gap in heart disease for her people
Vicki Wade has over 40 years working in health, she is a proud Noongar woman from south west Western Australia, Vicki has held many positions in her career including CNC Cardiology, Area Health Service of Aboriginal health, First Nations Lead of RHDA Frist Nations Lead in the Heart Foundation. She is co-chair of Deadly Heart incorporation and and a producer on the award-winning film Take Heart. Vicki has spent her career in working towards closing the heart health gap in heart disease for her people
Dr Eswaran Waran is a Palliative Medicine Specialist who has worked in the Northern Territory and Melbourne.
Dr Kaspar Willson
General Physician and Head of General Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital
Dr Kaspar Willson is a General Physician and Head of General Medicine at the Royal Darwin Hospital.
His current focus is on the development of Integrated Care Programs to bring together the hospital and primary care sectors in the Top End.
Dr Anna Wood
Head of Endocrinology
Dr Anna Wood is the Head of Department of Endocrinology at Royal Darwin Hospital and a Senior Research Fellow with Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
Dr Wood works within the Diabetes Across the Lifecourse Partnership at Menzies, and leads the PANDORA study. She also leads the weight management service in the NT with expertise in cardiometabolic health.
Dr Wood is a Director of the Australian Diabetes Society and serves on the steering committees for the National Association of Diabetes Centres and the Obesity Collective.
Dr Louise Woodward
Paediatrician
Dr Louise Woodward is a general paediatrician who has been working in Darwin the last 14 years.
She has recently begun advocating on environmental issues due to concerns about the expansion of the gas industry in the Northern Territory (NT) - despite the known risks to health and the climate.
She is using her knowledge and expertise as a doctor to raise awareness about the direct health impacts of fossil fuel projects on children and their families within the NT.
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