Women in Medicine Breakfast - Cairns
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Women in Medicine Breakfast - Cairns

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Event Date

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Time

7am: Registration
7am - 7.45am: Networking
7.45am - 9am: Keynote speaker and panel session
9am - 10am: Optional networking

Location

Crystalbrook Riley
131/141 Esplanade, Cairns City

Crystalbrook Riley

Why should you attend

Medical and health professionals who:

  • are looking to be inspired by the outstanding work of women in medicine
  • are wanting a fun team building event out of your office or hospital
  • want learn from our expert speakers and attendees
  • are interested in mentoring or finding a mentor 
  • want to support and celebrate their colleagues, both on stage and in the audience.
Who should attend
  • Women in Medicine 
  • Interested stakeholders
  • Medical students and junior doctors looking for a mentor
  • All doctors are encouraged to attend
Cost

Student/DIT member:   $47
Member:   $60
Non-member:   $75    
Student/DIT member - table of 10:   $423
Member - table of 10:   $540
Non-member - table of 10:   $675

Inclusions for sponsored table:
(VIP breakfast table sponsor - table of 10: $2,750)

  • Logo placement in the event program on each table. 
  • Acknowledgement as table sponsor on marketing materials produced for the event such as event web page, emails and social media.
  • 10 tickets to the event.
  • Opportunity to donate a prize for event to help raise money for the AMA Queensland Foundation.
  • 2 x banners displayed at the event (provided by sponsor).
  • Opportunity to provide content for the post conference email such as PDF brochures, flyers, special offers and web links.
Register now

Register now

Registrations close Monday 27 May, 10am

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Women in Medicine Breakfast - Cairns

Women in Medicine Breakfast - Cairns

Theme: Women in medicine inspiring change

All over Australia, there are female doctors who are not just smashing the glass ceiling, but smashing stereotypes and disrupting the way things have always been. 

Join us for our Women in Medicine Breakfast in Cairns to hear more about the local women inspiring change at the most highly anticipated event on the AMA Queensland calendar. 

Local leaders are among the women who'll share their experiences in our powerful program of speakers and panel discussions.

Help us shine a spotlight on all NQ women in medicine and their positive impact on the community.

There will also be a raffle and a best-socks competition celebrating Crazy Socks 4 Docs Day. 

Register now

If you know a woman in medicine inspiring change contact events@amaq.com.au to nominate them to speak or get a special mention from our MC on the day of the event.

Can't make it to Cairns? Join us for the Women in Medicine Breakfast in Brisbane on Thursday 17 October. 

Corporate Partners 

Cutcher & Neale Accounting and Financial Services MDA National DHF

Sponsors

Avant James Cook University

 

 

Guests at our 2023 Women in Medicine Breakfast Townsville 

Dr Nick Yim

Event MC - Dr Nick Yim
Incoming AMA Queensland President

Dr Yim works as a General Practitioner in Hervey Bay. He is also a passionate medical educator who hosts registrars and medical students in his practice. As a former pharmacist, he acknowledges the importance of multidisciplinary care to ensure patient care. 
Dr Deb Lees

Keynote speaker - Dr Deb Lees
Spinal Surgeon, author and speaker

Dr Lees was a chiropractor in the United Kingdom before training as an orthopaedic surgeon. Her chosen specialty is spine surgery. After working in the National Health Service for 10 years, Dr Lees accepted a fellowship in Australia doing both paediatric deformity and adult spine surgery. 
Dr Sarah Coll

Panel host - Dr Sarah Coll
Orthopaedic Surgeon

Dr Coll is an orthopaedic surgeon based in Cairns. She has been in private practice for over 18 years and manages all types of upper limb surgery. Dr Coll also performs ankle and knee arthroscopies and reconstructions. As part of the AMA Queensland, AMA and RACS councils, she advocates for doctors with a particular focus on women in medicine. 
Dr Janet Bayley

Panel speaker - Dr Janet Bayley
Consultant Psychiatrist Trinity Clinic Cairns and Townsville University Hospital

Dr Bayley is a psychiatrist in private and public practice. She was inaugural Chair of the Cairns Hospital Clinical Council, was awarded the RANZCP Queensland Joan Lawrence Meritorious Service Award in 2022, regularly provides coronial expert opinion reports and is a JCU MBBS Senior Lecturer. She is a strong advocate for equitable mental health service provision in regional, rural and remote Queensland.
Dr Renee Cremen

Panel speaker - Dr Renee Cremen
Director of Medical Services Babinda MPHS Cairns and Hinterland HHS

Dr Cremen is a Rural Generalist and the Director of Medical Services for Babinda MPHS. She trained at James Cook University becoming a Queensland Rural Generalist Trainee and obtaining her Fellowship with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine with Advanced Skills in Emergency and Population Health. Dr Cremen is passionate about delivery of acute and primary health care services and the education of medical students and junior doctors.
Dr Tamika Ponton

Panel speaker - Dr Tamika Ponton
Orthopaedic PHO

Dr Ponton is a proud Ballardong Noongar woman from the South West region of WA, currently working as an Orthopaedic PHO at Cairns Hospital. Throughout training she has been involved with the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, the Western Australian Medical Students’ Society and various high school programs, including Girls Academy, Follow the Dream and Aspire UWA.
Dr Katrina Starmer

Panel speaker - Dr Katrina Starmer
Emergency Specialist Cairns Hospital, Rural Generalist, Royal Flying Doctor Service

Dr Starmer is an emergency medicine specialist working at Cairns Hospital and a Rural Generalist for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She is the local GP in Chillagoe and the RFDS statewide telehealth medical education officer. Dr Starmer is part of the Emergency Medicine Education and Training faculty for North Queensland and has a special interest in ultrasound education.