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Dr. Angela Lim is a paediatric-trainee turned mental health technology entrepreneur, founding the company Clearhead. For the impact she has made with Clearhead, she is a finalist of the 2021 Women of Influence Awards for the Innovation, science and health category. Angela has always been passionate about improving patient outcomes and believe that technology has a huge potential in doing that. She also completed research at Harvard University's School of Public Health and attended the Harvard Business School's executive leadership program for value-based healthcare.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into medicine and leaving medicine for health tech, the origins of Clearhead, highlights and challenges of the Clearhead journey, leadership, work-life balance and what the future has in store. 

You can find Clearhead in the link below:
https://www.clearhead.org.nz/

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Dr. Michelle Wise was born and raised in Canada and moved to New Zealand on completion of her O&G training. She took up her first SMO job in Whangārei Hospital, returned to Canada for a period and is now working at Auckland City Hospital. She is a clinical academic working half time in general O&G and half time at the medical school teaching and doing research. Her research interests are in reducing unnecessary intervention in childbirth, developing clinical practice guidelines to support evidence-based practice, and getting early medical abortion funded in the community. She is a huge fan of yoga and mindfulness, and learning how to use traditional and social media to advocate for women’s health issues. 

In this episode, we discuss her journey into obstetrics & gynaecology, her passion for increasing accessibility to abortion care, COVID vaccinations in wāhine hapū, navigating media, yoga and mindfulness and work-life balance in a two-doctor household. 

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Dr. William Baber is an otolaryngologist/ENT surgeon in Auckland. There was no training for ENT surgery at the time he developed his interest, so pursued his training at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. He returned to Auckland in 1974 as a Tutor Specialist, doing every type of ENT surgery before travelling for fellowship in otology in USA. He is also the president of the ENT and ORL Society, which is firmly established as an instigator of world recognised academic and teaching achievements. 

In this episode, we discuss his journey into ENT, the evolution of ENT over the decades, his experience with the first cochlear implant in New Zealand, sign language and the deaf community, and his retirement plans. 

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Associate Professor Rhea Liang is a general and breast surgeon on the Gold Coast. She is a surgical educationalist and Surgical Discipline Lead at Bond University and the immediate past Chair of the Operating With Respect Committee, RACS. She also researches, advocates and consults widely in diversity and equity issues. On multiple occasions (including recently!) she has been told she is unsuited for surgery for a whole range of reasons including being small, being a woman, being too feminine, being not feminine enough, having kids, being an academic, disliking early starts, getting hungry easily, being too  outspoken about bullying in surgery, and being not outspoken enough about bullying in surgery.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into general/breast surgery, with a focus on her work in Operating with Respect (OWR) with RACS, key techniques for combating bullying and racist/sexist microaggressions at work, and persisting in the surgical career as wāhine.

You can find her on Twitter: @LiangRhea

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Dr. Janet Rowan is a general physician working in obstetric medicine since 1994. She has further subspecialised into maternity diabetes for the last 19 years and concurrently does clinical research. Janet has 4 adult children and 4 grandchildren and is passionate about flexible pathways for doctors, and good mentorship. 

In this episode, we discuss her extensive part-time training, her marriage and divorce, finding new love and navigating merging families, bullying in the workplace as a senior, and obstetric medicine. 

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Dr. Dev Raga is a Melbourne-based podcaster and GP who discusses common financial topics. His podcast titled ‘Dev Raga Personal Finance’ discusses topics ranging from saving, investing, debt reduction, and personal insurance.

The final episode to wrap up 2021 has been carefully chosen. Over the short course of my career in medicine so far, I have pondered the ongoing inequities we see within our medical colleagues. I noticed the disparity in socioeconomic standing and financial status between our Pākehā, versus our Māori and Pasifika colleagues. I noticed that even with all my privilege, as someone from an immigrant background whose parents could never finish their highschool education, it was miles harder to have a monetary safety net. I noticed that financial literacy was passed on in the tongues of dinner-table conversations and trust funds, setting friends and colleagues up for success before they even knew what 'savings' meant. I noticed that some doctors knew the meaning of 'investments' and 'property ladder' before they understood what welfare was.

So this week, I am releasing an episode with Dr. Dev Raga talking about as many things finance as we could within an hour. I wanted to use this platform for financially-savvy colleagues to be able to impart some wisdom so that we can try to reduce that gap we see. Realistically, that gap will always be there. Some of us will continue to lead privileged, financially safety-netted lives, while some of us will have to use our single-income to feed our extended whānau and pay off crippling debt. This breaks my heart, and I want to do everything to tautoko our whānau. I hope that perhaps while some of our pockets may be burning from Christmas presents (and while others may have not had the luxury of presents at all), this may help us start 2022 differently.

In this episode, we discuss strategies for saving, maximising your superannuation & Kiwisaver, basic investment strategies, and his financial resources.

You can find his social media and podcast here:
https://anchor.fm/dev-raga---personal-finan
https://www.facebook.com/DevRagaPersonalFinance/

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Dr. Jenny Visser graduated from medical school (University of Otago, New Zealand) in 1986. She is vocationally trained in General Practice and is a Fellow of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.  Following a special interest in travel medicine she is now Lead for Travel Medicine Postgraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington. There, she convenes and teaches the university’s qualifications in travel medicine enjoying the stimulation that teaching brings. Her research interests include the travel health needs of long term expatriates and expedition medicine. She also worked part time in clinical travel medicine at The Travel Doctor in Wellington for many years, where her clinical role included being medical advisor to New Zealand Red Cross for overseas deployments. 

Jenny has worked in many roles and places, including being a full time general practitioner in Wellington for 12 years, medical advisor to New Zealand Land Search and Rescue, medical officer on the research vessel RV Tangaroa (spending eight summers in Antarctica), a season as a volunteer doctor at a high altitude rescue post in Nepal, two months on set in a remote village in Bougainville as film crew doctor and expedition doctor on treks to Kilimanjaro, China and Fiji. When she is not working she is travelling (often by bike or trekking) either in New Zealand or overseas. 

In this episode, we discuss her various expeditions to Antarctica, Nepal and Bougainville, her love for travel, her work in travel medicine and what the future holds for wanderlusters. 

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Sarah Dalton is executive director of Toi Mata Hauora, also known as, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) – the union for senior doctors and dentists. Her work story is of a secondary school teacher (history/English/assistant principal) who stumbled into union work and decided to stick around. 

In this episode, we discuss her move from being a teacher and being a union advocate for teachers, to advocacy for medical consultants. We discuss the breadth of challenges for senior medical officers (SMOs) in the current landscape and workplace, encompassing burnout in SMOs, the gender pay gap, speaking out against racism and sexism and their current negotiations for their collective contract (MECA). Sarah is also the founder of a 5000+ member-strong Facebook group, New Zealand Women in Medicine (NZWIM), and tells us the story of the birth of this mighty group! 

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Dr Michelle Chen is a current GP and rural & remote medicine trainee working on the Gold Coast, Australia. She was an aspiring paediatric surgeon, working all over Australia and New Zealand. Personal tragedy struck in 2019 when she became a carer to her GP husband who was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. She is an advocate for young-onset bowel cancer, raising awareness through Bowel Cancer Australia and her daily practice. She is embarking on Rural Medicine ACRRM Fellowship with advanced skills in surgery, hoping to provide endoscopy and colonoscopy services to rural and remote areas. Her husband, Dr. Sean Mitchell, a passionate general practitioner and aged only 36, sadly passed away in April 2021.

In this episode, we discuss her journey in medicine shifting gears from paediatric surgery to general practice and rural medicine, being a full-time carer for her husband, the grief and early loss of her husband Dr. Sean Mitchell to metastatic bowel cancer, work-life balance, and her reflections on her journey so far.

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Dr. Alby Hailes is a psychiatry registrar, baker and creative. Currently working in Whangārei, he has an interest in mental health with a particular focus on the effects of diet and exercise on the psyche. Alby is the creator of trEAT right, an holistic food and wellbeing website, where his food philosophy shies away from fad diets and food restriction, instead promoting moderation and a sense of connection to the food we consume. He is currently working on a recipe book that reflects this trEAT right. ethos, and is also a contestant on the current season on The Great Kiwi Bake Off.

Warning: This episode contains major spoilers on The Great Kiwi Bake Off.

In this episode, we discuss his journey into medicine and psychiatry, finding his niche in medicine and gastronomy, the evolution of Scarfie Kitchen to trEAT right., his experience in The Great Kiwi Bake Off, and what is in store for him and trEAT right in the near future.

trEAT right. can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/treatrightnz/ and its own website: https://treatrightnz.com/

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