Purple Pen Podcast

Check out our latest episode as Natalie speaks with Dr Kristin Graham and Saraid Martin, both endorsed prescribing podiatrists, practicing in South Australia.

Make sure you listen until the end to get some valuable tips about how to protect your feet at work!

Prof Stephen Davis and Professor Geoffrey Donnan AO chat about the different types of strokes and how they are managed; the practice points of novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) and secondary prevention stroke. We also discuss emerging technology with lightweight brain scanners and stroke smart ambulances.

Kristin and Natalie chat with Dr Daniel Wilson, rural GP and president of the Rural Doctors Association of Victoria about what it is like to work as a healthcare professional in rural Australia.

Did you know people with constipation have a higher all cause mortality than those with normal bowel function?

Join Natalie and Kristin as they get bogged down in the details of how to treat and manage constipation with Sydney based Gastroenterologist, Hepatologist and Gastrointestinal endoscopist, Dr Kostas Brooks.

Kristin is joined by Dr Timothy Matthews, to discuss Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSNHL).

Dr Matthews is an Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon with additional fellowship training in Otology and Neurotology (ear surgery/diseases). He has a special interest in minimally invasive endoscopic ear surgery and hearing implants (including cochlear implantation).

Join Kristin in a showcase of the Australian Pharmacy Students' Journal, as they celebrate their first year in publication.

Speakers include:

Elissar Mansour, Co-editor in Chief of the Australian Pharmacy Students' Journal (APSJ)

Elishka Juricka, Co-editor in Chief of the Australian Pharmacy Students' Journal (APSJ)

Maria Siskamanis, Clinical Pharmacist at Royal Darwin Hospital

Alanah Wilson, Intern Pharmacist at John Flynn Private Hospital

https://apsj.com.au/index.php/journal

In a special International Women's Day episode Kristin spoke to A/Prof Monique Watts, a cardiologist with special interest in women and heart health. Heart disease kills more than two times as many Australian women than breast cancer.

Listen in as Kristin speaks to Dr Melanie Bissessor from the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre with an update on HSV.

Join Kristin as she speaks to Dr Colin Tuft, Advanced Trainee in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital about all things sleep apnoea.

Kristin is joined by Dr Emma Goeman and Dr Jean Li-Kim-Moy to discuss the ins and outs of herpes zoster (more commonly known as shingles).