Dr Heather Rowe, VIC

Dr Heather Rowe, Victoria, is a health scientist with a background in genetics, psychology and health promotion.

She is Postgraduate Course Coordinator and Lecturer in the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, where she also supervises postgraduate student research.

She has an active program of funded research investigating the psychosocial impact of medical technologies in pregnancy and birth, women’s mental health promotion and the evaluation of postpartum mental health services for women.

She has broad interests in the psychosocial determinants of women’s health, in particular those which are relevant to psychological wellbeing during pregnancy and the postpartum periods.

Dr Ann Olsson MBBS, FRANZCOG, SA

Dr Ann Olsson is a gynaecologist currently practising in Adelaide. She graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1984. She completed specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1994. Since that time she has been working in private practice in metropolitan Adelaide.

Hospital appointments include Senior Visiting Gynaecologist to the Menopause, Hysteroscopy, Colposcopy and Vulval Disorders Clinics at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Senior Consultant to the Colposcopy Clinic at Flinders Medical Centre. She is also the Visiting Gynaecologist to Jamestown and Kangaroo Island in rural South Australia.

Dr Olsson is a clinical lecturer in the Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health at the University of Adelaide.

Dr Jackie Stacy, NSW

Dr Jackie Stacy is a practising gynaecologist in Melbourne and is a Fellow of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She did her basic medical training at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London University ,graduating in 1975.

She  holds an  Honorary Lecturer position at Monash University.

She has developed a special interest in psychosomatic medicine and spent 5 years in psychosexual counselling prior to setting up the Pelvic Pain Clinic at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, in 1997. She is also a member of I.P.P.S., the International Pelvic Pain Society.

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A/Prof Rodney Petersen, WA

MBBS, FRANZCOG, MBA, Grad Dip Uni Teach
Adjunct Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
Director of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Joondalup Health Campus

My particular interests include:

• General gynaecology;
• Colposcopy;
• Research into menstrual disorders and counselling women with gynaecological cancers.

I have previously been employed as a Senior Gynaecologist at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne in Gynaecological Oncology, Colposcopy and Menstrual Disorders Clinical Services.  At Sunshine Hospital, Melbourne, I was the Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with responsibility for the Gynaecological Oncology unit, complex gynaecology and colposcopy clinic services.

I have a long interest in research and teaching and was the Foundation Associate Dean in Teaching and Learning at the University of Notre Dame Medical School based at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst Sydney.

I have also served in the Australian Army Reserve for over 25 years and currently hold the position of Senior Medical Officer for Forces Command, Australia. I am married with 2 children.

I am now at Joondalup Health Campus in Perth, WA as the director of O&G where I am continuing to pursue my areas of interest.

Dr Kirsten Black, NSW

Dr Kirsten Black trained in obstetrics and gynaecology and then specialised in reproductive and sexual health in the UK. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney where she is responsible for co-ordinating undergraduate and post graduate training. Her areas of clinical and research interest are office gynaecology, early pregnancy and contraception.

Dr Jenny Thomas, South Australia

Dr Jenny Thomas is an Adelaide inner suburban GP, who attended Adelaide University and worked in Crystal Brook, Wudinnna (rural South Australia) and in Scotland as part of her general practice training. Jenny ran her own practice in Unley from 1992 until 2008, but found that solo general practice is no longer financially viable or personally sustainable, especially if you want to have time with your family. Jenny now happily works three days per week in Norwood with another GP.

Her first experience of ASPOG was at a conference in 1999 in the Adelaide hills. It was wonderful to find a group of like-minded women-focussed professionals with a special interest in the whole person rather than just her "bits". She has not missed a meeting since, and hope that many others will also continue to appreciate the benefits of ASPOG in the future.

Dr Fiona Haines, Queensland

Dr Fiona Haines graduated from Newcastle University in 1983. Completing hospital based training including DRANZCOG, she commenced General Practice in semi rural NSW near Lake Macquarie in 1987.

The only female GP in the area she quickly discovered there was more to Women's health than a quick pap smear and has been learning ever since. She became Medical Director of Healthy Women Medical Centre (Indooroopilly, Brisbane) in 2003 where she intends to stay.

Fiona discovered ASPOG from a flyer in the tea room and was hooked from her first conference in 2005.The mix of practitioners of all backgrounds all keenly interested in care of the whole woman within her cultural background was and still is very exciting.

Dr Susan Carr, Victoria

Formerly Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Scotland., with remit for running services for minority and deprived women. Head of Psychosexual Service at the Royal Womens Hospital, Melbourne in 2009.  Member of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine, UK.  Various publications including book chapters on sexuality, and sexuality and cancer.  Extensive lecturing and teaching experience.