The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol 217, Issue 6: 13 September 2022. Dr Lachlan McIver is an Australian rural generalist, currently working as the Tropical Diseases and Planetary Health Advisor for Medicines Sans Frontieres in Geneva. His book Life and death decisions, is now available from all good bookstores. If you are interested in working for MSF, visit https://msf.org.au/join-us. If you are a rural generalist interested in making a difference in Pacific Island nations, visit https://rocket-ship.org/rocketship. If you are interested in delivering telemedicine in rural and remote New South Wales, visit https://wnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/our-services/telehealth/. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 5: 5 September 2022. Dr Wendie Berg is Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Ms JoAnn Pushkin is a breast cancer survivor and advocate for breast density notification. Together they founded DenseBreast-info.org, providing resource and educational material for patients and doctors about the importance of breast density for breast cancer risk. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 5: 29 August 2022. Dr Karen Price is a GP, and President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Monash University. She talks about her term as President, priorities for general practice reform going forward and her reflections on what the GP theme song should be. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 4: 22 August 2022. Dr Kean-Seng Lim has been a GP in Mt Druitt in Sydney's outer west for almost three decades. He is dedicated to prevention, and has a passion for delivering high-quality care both face-to-face and via digital technologies. He has just been given the AMA's 2022 Excellence in Health Care award. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 4: 15 August 2022. Professor Steve Robson is an ob/gyn, former President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and has just been elected as the President of the Federal Australian Medical Association. He spoke with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about his priorities for his upcoming term in office. 

Vol 217, Issue 4: 8 August 2022. Professor Brendan Crabb AC is the Director and CEO of the Burnet Institute in Melbourne. He talks about the latest evidence about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, including long COVID, reinfection, rebounding, and the new modelling from the Burnet about the benefits of mask use. National COVID numbers here. State-by-state breakdowns here. Global comparisons here. Burnet Institute COVID-19 hub here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 3: 1 August 2022. Professor Kelsey Hegarty is an academic GP and joint Chair of Family Violence Prevention at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Women's Hospital. She leads the NHMRC Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence. Her coauthored narrative review is open access and can be found here. Other resources: 1800 RESPECT ... Personal Safety Survey ... InSight+ article by Kelsey Hegarty ... The Choice: Violence or Poverty by Dr Anne Summers AO. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. 

Voice of the GP Episode 3: 25 July 2022. Dr Lilon Bandler is a GP, medical educator and researcher, with a long history of working with and developing education programs for Indigenous medical students and practitioners. Her new enterprise is collaborating with the Wayside Chapel in King's Cross to provide health services for Wayside visitors. 

Vol 217, Issue 2: 18 July 2022. Dr Michelle Kennedy from the University of Newcastle, and Dr Raglan Maddox from ANU are coauthors, codesigners and co-owners of research published in the MJA Supplement, Indigenous-led evidence to inform smoking cessation care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The Supplement is also accompanied by an editorial here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 2: 11 July 2022. Dr Liz Sturgiss is a GP, NHMRC investigator and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. Dr Claire Madigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour at Loughborough University in the UK. This podcast accompanies their InSight+ article which can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.