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Trainees are well supported in the country.
Supervision and support for trainees during rural placement is provided by rural specialists with exceptional skills.
You’re in good hands out here.
Meet Our Supervisors
Kirsten is an academic Palliative Care physician who has lived in Albany on WA’s beautiful south coast since 2008. She is a teacher in the Rural Clinical School of WA, an experienced researcher and is the Clinical Director for WA Country Health’s palliative care services across 2.5 million km2.
She loves the opportunities that working in the country have given her, including travelling to amazing rural and remote communities, beautiful friendships, great food and wine, and access to nature just by stepping out the door.
Dr Chi Li is a palliative care physician based in Albury-Wodonga, working across community, acute hospital consultation-liaison and inpatient palliative care settings in northeast Victoria and southern NSW. Chi is passionate about rural health, psycho-oncology, clinical supervision and mentoring, and partnering with consumers. He has been involved in supervising and training palliative care registrars (advanced trainees / Clinical Diploma / Advanced Skills Training) and nurse practitioners for over 10 years, is a regular palliative medicine case study marker, and recently stepped down as Lead for Site Accreditation with the RACP Training Committee in Palliative Medicine.
Dr Christine Sanderson is an experienced and passionate palliative care clinician and educator. As the clinical lead for Territory Palliative Care – Central Australia, Christine leads a small but dynamic team based on Arrernte country in Mparntwe, Alice Springs. This service provides unique opportunities for trainees including an immersive cultural experience of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Christine is also very engaged in rural workforce development, working as the clinical lead in the establishment of the RRIPM.
Dr Kat Urban has been a Palliative Care Specialist since 2012, initially working in Sydney Metro services, until she saw the light and moved to Lismore in 2021.
She has a special interest in managing cancer-related symptoms – especially complex pain, with a recent collaboration to form a complex pain management team in the hospital together with anaesthetics and interventional radiology. Kat is also leading a project to improve the assessment of psycho-existential distress.
She is an animal lover, enjoying the ability to have lots of pets in the rural setting.
Dr Odette Spruijt trained in England and is one of NZ ‘s first RACP accredited palliative medicine specialists. She led the Pain and Palliative Care department at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, for 18 years. In 2022, Odette moved to Launceston as Medical Director, SPCS Tas. North, and is loving Tasmania. She has done extensive work in India throughout her career, and now consults for the UNODC on ensuring access to essential controlled medicines internationally.
As a palliative medicine specialist for over 25 years Sarah brings a wealth of clinical experience spanning both metropolitan and more recently rural palliative medicine.
Sarah works with the Albany based palliative care team providing flexible supervision arrangements to meet the needs of the trainee and is inspired by the country setting and the quality of the service provided.
Louis is highly experienced in rural medicine, commencing rural practice in 1994 working in a variety of settings over that time. He has always had an interest in medical training and doctor welfare. Louis has been working with a specialist palliative care service in central west NSW for the last thirteen years and helped develop the ACRRM AST in Palliative Medicine.
Dr (Ann) Sarah Dunlop graduated from Glasgow University in 2008. She has worked in New Zealand where she completed her Basic Physician Training with the RACP, UK completing the written MRCP, and Advanced Training in Palliative Medicine in WA which she completed in 2018.
Since Fellowship she has been working in the South West initially for St John of God Bunbury Hospital and more recently as Head of Department for South West Palliative Care (WACHS) in the WA Country Health Service (WACHS). She has a passion for equality of rural and remote palliative care and has helped create rural training pathways, creating registrar training terms for doctors in RACP Advanced Training, ACRRM trainee’s and Clinical Foundation of Palliative Medicine. Sarah is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer with the WA Rural Clinical School.
Dr Rosemary Ramsay is an experienced Palliative Medicine Specialist with a strong interest in teaching and research. Rosemary enjoys introducing registrars to provision of palliative care in the rural communities.
When not at work she is regenerating the forest and gullies of their farm in the Forth Valley with endemic species to encourage bandicoots and butterflies. She enjoys time hiking and exploring the many bush walks in the North West.
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