Council 2020 - 2021

After graduating from the University of Adelaide and completing an internship at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), he started basic physician traineeship at TQEH. After research and advanced training at FMC, he worked at Repatriation General Hospital (RGH) in cardiology and general medicine, at FMC and is now at Noarlunga Health Services.

He is an RACP Fellow and has been a member of the RACP state committee in South Australia for several years in various roles. Andrew has found the supervision of trainees from residency to consultant practice to be a particularly rewarding part of his work, as are the relationships he has formed with both patients and colleagues of all crafts for complex chronic disease management. 

Andrew has been a member of the AMA(SA) throughout his career, and believes the AMA is best positioned to influence the delivery of patient care and express the expertise of doctors at both a state and federal level.

She moved to Australia in 1990 taking up a role with the Royal Flying Doctor Service based in Broken Hill, NSW.

After two years of working in a fascinating job and appreciating the Australian bush, she moved to Adelaide, initially working primarily as a GP until establishing her sports medicine practice.

She is a member of SA – Sports Medicine Association and was president from 2011 to 2013.

She has worked with elite athletes in netball and basketball, both domestic and international competition, as well as with the Australian Paralympic Committee.

She was also part of the Australian team for the Rio Paralympics which she found a valuable and rewarding experience.

Her current clinical role is with The International Spine Centre. She continues to work as a GP with a musculoskeletal focus.

He is a senior lecturer in the paediatric program for fifth-year MBBS students at the University of Adelaide; a staff specialist in the Department of Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital; and a private consultant allergist and immunologist in Beulah Park.

Patrick is an active member of the Australasian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (ASCIA) and a member of the ASCIA paediatric and immunodeficiency committees.

He is a member of the Transplantation in Primary Immunodeficiency (TAPID) Working Group and the SA Pathology Primary Immunodeficiency Working Group.

He has a special interest in leukaemia and lymphomas. This led him to Kuwait before he moved to Melbourne in 2004. He completed his haematology training in Melbourne and Adelaide in 2009. 

Dr Nath has worked in the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Alfred Hospital, and as consultant haematologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA Pathology and Adelaide Cancer Centre. 

He now works with Adelaide Haematology at the Ashford Specialist Centre. 

Dr Nath also follows his laboratory haematology interest by working on a sessional basis at Clinpath Laboratories.

In a career spanning for more than 30 years, Dr Edward (Ted) Mah has worked tirelessly with and for the orthopaedic community both locally and internationally.

Peter is the President-Elect of the ANZ Society of Vascular Surgery.

Simon migrated to Adelaide with his family in August 1995 and commenced work at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, joining Stace Anaethetists in 1997. He continues to work in both public and private anaesthesia.

He completed psychiatry training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in 2004. He subsequently worked as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, based in London, for two years before returning to South Australia to work at the QEH in 2007.

Since 2010 he has been the Acting Regional Clinical Director of mental health services in the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network and Clinical Director for mental health services in the inner southern region, based at Flinders Medical Centre. 

In 2013 he was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Flinders University School of Medicine, with a specific focus on mental health systems research. His other research interests include e-mental health and psychopharmacology.

Tarun is the treasurer of the SA branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

He advocates for the rights of mental health patients and for designing mental health services to effectively meet their needs. He is particularly interested in understanding the complex interface between healthcare, politics, sociology and economics.

Dr Koh was accepted into the specialist dermatology training programme in 2001. During her first year she worked in Darwin, N.T. where her focus included research into fungal infections in Aboriginal communities of the Top End. The findings from this research contributed to changes in the way such infections are treated across Australia in indigenous groups.

After completing her training in Adelaide, and being accepted as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists (ACD) in 2005, Dr Koh commenced private practice. She has served on various committees for the ACD, including trainee doctor national selection, scientific meetings, medical ethics, national examinations and international medical graduate speciality recognition assessment.  She has been the Secretary and the Chairman of the S.A. Faculty of the ACD.

Dr Koh is a visiting dermatologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Women’s & Children’s Hospital, where she supervises doctors training in dermatology. She also participates in medical student teaching for the University of Adelaide and is a senior Clinical Lecturer.   She regularly gives lectures for students for pre-intern preparation and general practitioners about skin conditions.

Aside from her busy practice, Dr Koh is a keen amateur photographer and traveller.

My interests are health politics, best practices in obstetrics. I was actively involved in the campaign for abortion law reform and hope to continue this work in the area of access to services especially in rural areas.

She graduated in Germany and came to Australia in 1997.  Her special clinical interests include mental health, paediatrics, aboriginal health and point of care ultrasound.  Cathrin has a long-standing involvement in patient safety and clinical governance across her workplaces.  The challenges to provide safe patient care in the current environment led to her interest in becoming a member of the AMA(SA) Council.

Cathrin is a Course Director and member of the Course Development Committee for Advanced Paediatric life Support (APLS) and an instructor for Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) and Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB).

She has a 22-year-old son in Melbourne (of late mostly in lockdown) and a 20-year-old daughter in Sydney.  Unfortunately, Cathrin does not see them often enough now but her horses and dogs keep her entertained.