Ongoing Education

2010

• American board of Independent medical examiners course
• Clinical practice Guidelines for OCCP injury and Disease
• Chronic pain and pain management what does the science say?

2009

• Coordinator of PART II examination s in Neurosurgery
• RACS meeting
• World Federation of Stereotactic Neurosurgeons meeting Toronto
• Co coordinator of neurosurgery society of Australasia Pituitary meetin

Presentations:

• 2009 NSA pituitary workshop
  • Acromegaly and its management
  • A national database for neurosurgery – is it feasible?
  • Chair: Developmental conditions of the pituitary
• 2009 Disaster response in neurosurgery
  • Neuronavigation and advances in imaging in brain tumours
  • Presentation for Trigeminal neuralgia Association
• 2009 RACS meeting
  • Endoscopic brain surgery – What are the limitations and the future?
  • Why I don't belong to the women in surgery group – debate

2008

• AO spine membership and course

2007

• One month observership in Toronto Canada for DBS
• Medtronic Stealth course, Sydney
• Endoscopic skull base surgery, Adelaide

2006

• Brain Trauma Meeting, Gold Coast
• NSA meeting Cairns
• Queensland Health Open Disclosure Peer Support Group Training

2005

• NSA Meeting Gold Coast

2004

• International Neurovascular Meeting Sydney
• International Neurotrauma Meeting Adelaide

2003

• NSA Meeting Queenstown
• Neuromodulation Workshop Sydney
• CLEAR - Critical Literature Evolution and Research
• International Peripheral Nerve Surgeons Meeting
• Stealth Workshop
• MIDAS
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support

2002

• Controversies in Neurology Queenstown

2000

• EMST – Emergency Management of Severe Trauma
• APLS – Advanced Paediatric Life Support
• PHTLS – Pre Hospital Trauma and Life Support (Invited to become a PHTLS Instructor)
• BURNS - Australia and New Zealand Burns Association

Schooling

2001

• Invited Guest Speaker Westland High School Prize giving

1983-89

• DUX Westland High School
• Prizes: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, Statistics, Calculus
• West Coast Representative to School of Physics
• Direct entrant for Medicine and first professional year of Engineering
• School Mathematics team
• Leader School debating team
• School Orchestra (Grade VII classical piano and clarinet)
• Female lead in school dramatic production