The Medical Journal of Australia

Today we discuss developments in treating kidney disease, including advice for general practitioners, how patients can get support – and balancing life as a specialist.  My special guest is Professor Gopi Rangan, a nephrologist staff specialist at Westmead Hospital and a clinician scientist at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research.  Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/9/spotlight-on-a-rare-kidney-disease-this-world-kidney-day/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

Today we discuss pregnancy supplements, including the need for clinicians to reconsider widespread prescriptions for pregnancy supplements, and instead promote whole food diets. My special guests are Associate Professor Shelley Wilkinson and Dr Linda Gallo.  Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/6/pregnancy-supplements-is-there-too-much-of-a-good-thing/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing how GPs can help women improve their self-compassion and reduce depression.  My special guest is Dr Lydia Brown, a senior lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Melbourne. Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/4/how-self-compassion-can-help-reduce-depression-in-women/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.

Today we discuss how doctors can help reduce psychological distress among patients after cardiac surgery. My guests are Snezana Stolic, a senior lecturer of nursing and William McCann, a PhD student in psychology, both at the University of Southern Queensland.  Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/4/managing-psychological-distress-following-cardiac-surgery/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing the deadly impact of wood heater smoke in the ACT and across eastern and southern Australia.  My special guest is Professor Sotiris Vardoulakis from the University of Canberra.  Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2024/220/1/wood-heater-smoke-and-mortality-australian-capital-territory-rapid-health-impact With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins

Today we discuss the importance of Australia’s national bowel cancer screening program, including rates of program participation and the need to maintain public confidence in it.  My guests are Professor Mark Jenkins and Associate Professor Belinda Goodwin. Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/43/misunderstandings-about-bowel-cancer-screening-programs-dangerous/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing heart valve disease as part of Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week. My special guests are Dr James Roy and Associate Professor Kaleab Asrress, who are structural and interventional cardiologists from Sydney. This podcast is sponsored by Medtronic Australasia Pty Ltd.    With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins.

Today we are discussing the prevalence of Australians exposured to potentially cardiotoxic cancer medications.  My special guests are Dr Benjamin Daniels and Dr Maria Aslam.  Read more: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/44/listen-to-your-heart-how-cancer-medications-affect-cardiovascular-health/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing a supplement published in the Medical Journal of Australia about tracking the health and wellbeing of children and young people. The supplement is sponsored by Vic Health.  My guest is Dr Kate Lycett, a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Health in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, who co-authored the supplement.  Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/10/supplement With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.

Today we are discussing socio-economic status and water fluoridation in Queensland.  My special guest is University of Queensland biostatistician, Mr Christopher Sexton.  Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2024/220/2/socio-economic-status-and-access-fluoridated-water-queensland-ecological-data With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 11 mins.

Today we are discussing Australia’s health system from the perspective of health economics, including the problems in the system, the challenges to reform, and how to improve affordability. My special guest is Professor Tony Scott, the Director of the Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School.With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 12 mins.

Today we are discussing the updated position statement on chronic cough in Australia. My guest is Associate Professor Julie Marchant, a paediatric respiratory physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital and a research fellow at the Centre for Children’s Health Research in Brisbane.Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2024/220/1/cough-children-and-adults-diagnosis-assessment-and-management-cicada-summaryWith MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

The importance of medical record management – including legal obligations, codes of conduct covering patient records, and key things for doctors to remember.  My special guests are David Maddocks, a senior lawyer and partner with Perry Maddocks Trollope, and Dr Owen Bradfield, the Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Indemnity Protection Society, which sponsored this podcast.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 25 minutes.

Today we are discussing iron deficiency in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with Dr Sam Heard, the medical director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. This podcast is sponsored by Viatris. With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 15 minutes. 

Today we are discussing iron deficiency in the general Australian population, with Professor Arumugam Manoharan, a specialist physician in clinical haematology at St George Private Hospital in Sydney. This podcast is sponsored by Viatris.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 23 mins.

How clinicians can help improve the care and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse patients.  My guest is Associate Professor Reema Harrison, a Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University.  Read her article: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/34/clinicians-must-adapt-their-approach-to-culturally-or-linguistically-diverse-patients/  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 18 mins.

Today we are discussing new Australian guidelines for diabetes related foot disease.  Associate Professor Pete Lazzarini is a podiatrist and a conjoint Principal Research Fellow at Metro North Hospital & Health Service and QUT in Brisbane.  Professor Stephen Twigg is a Clinical Academic, and the Kellion Professor of Endocrinology and Stan Clark Chair in Diabetes at the University of Sydney.  Read more: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/10/australian-evidence-based-guidelines-prevention-and-management-diabetes-related With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 24 mins.

Today we are discussing the new Australian Cancer Plan, released last week by Australia’s national cancer agency Cancer Australia. The plan aims to improve cancer outcomes for all Australians, and particularly for people have the poorest health outcomes.   My special guest is Cancer Australia CEO, Professor Dorothy Keefe Read more: https://www.australiancancerplan.gov.au/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 20 mins. 

Today we are discussing the urgent need to improve access to dental care for Australia’s children to diminish the burden of disease. My guests are Professor Sharon Goldfeld, a paediatrician, and Dr Mihiri Silva, a consultant paediatric dentist.  Read their article: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/33/improving-australian-childrens-access-to-dental-care-vital-to-diminish-burden-of-disease/With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 minutes. 

Today we are discussing the experiences of Australian and New Zealand doctors who have received disciplinary notifications or have been investigated by the regulator due to alleged mental health impairment.  My special guest is Dr Owen Bradfield, the Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Indemnity Protection Society, which sponsored this podcast. Read more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252722000838  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 32 mins.

Today we are discussing the National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce, featured in the latest MJA supplement published on Monday 16 October 2023.   My special guests are the National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce (NIKTT) deputy chair, Professor Jaquelyne Hughes, and NIKTT National Community Engagement Coordinator, Ms Kelli Owen. Read the supplement: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/8/supplementWith MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 26 mins

Today we are discussing the new cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk guidelines and calculator.  My special guests are Professor Garry Jennings AO, the Chief Medical Advisor of the Heart Foundation, and Professor Mark Nelson, chair of the Discipline of General Practice at University of Tasmania.  Learn more: https://www.cvdcheck.org.au/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.

Today we are discussing improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.  My special guest is Professor Fiona Stanley, a prominent epidemiologist, public health researcher and former Australian of the Year.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 21 mins.

Today we are discussing new research into breast cancer and rare cancers.  My special guests are Professor Peter Baade, a biostatistician and the senior manager, of descriptive epidemiology and Dr Kou Kou, the senior research officer (epidemiology), both at Cancer Council Queensland.  Read their breast cancer research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/mja2.52091Read about their rare cancer research in InSight+: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/30/rare-cancers-result-in-unique-challenges/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 15 mins.

Today we are discussing improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander outcomes and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum. My special guest is Professor Ian Anderson who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Tasmania. He trained as a medical doctor and was the first Indigenous Australian to be appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor of an Australian university.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 23 mins.

Today we are discussing a recent study looking at lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative.  My special guest is Associate Professor James Mallows, who is director of emergency medicine research at Nepean Hospital and is also a senior emergency physician there.  Read his research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/mja2.52034 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 18 mins.

Today we are discussing the mental health of young Australians and what can be done to change the health system.  My special guest is Professor Pat McGorry, a psychiatrist and executive director of Orygen. He was named Australian of the Year in 2010.  Read his research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/mja2.52047 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum.  My special guest is Professor James Ward, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland. With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 15 mins.

Today we are discussing organ donation after voluntary assisted dying.  My special guests are Associate Professor Neera Bhatia in the faculty of business and law at Deakin University and Associate Professor James Tibballs, a retired intensive care physician.  Read their research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.52016 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 15 mins.

Today we are discussing hospital utilisation in Australia, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age.  My special guests are Dr Natasha Reid, a research fellow, and Professor Len Gray, a Professor of Geriatric medicine, both at the centre for health services research at the University of Queensland.  Read their research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.52026 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 13 mins.

Today we are discussing the supplement in the Medical Journal of Australia from the Office of the Rural Health Commissioner on the theme: building a rural and remote workforce with place-based education.  My guests are the National Rural Health Commissioner, Adjunct Professor Ruth Stewart and Professor Richard Murray, who is the Dean of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University and the immediate past president of the Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand. Read the supplement: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/3/supplement With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 20 mins.

Today we are discussing clinical practice guidelines for deprescribing opioids. My specialist guests are Aili Langford, a research fellow and pharmacist, and Associate Professor Carl Schneider, a pharmacist and registered nurse. Read more in the MJA: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/2/clinical-practice-guideline-deprescribing-opioid-analgesics-summary With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 13 minutes.

Today we are discussing artificial intelligence and the potential consequences for medicine and health care in Australia. My special guest is Professor Enrico Coiera, the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University. Professor Coiera trained as a medical doctor and leads the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare. Professor Coiera and his colleagues wrote on this topic in The Medical Journal of Australia recently: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.51992 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins. 

Today we are discussing the issues doctors face when running their own practice, whether they are starting out or are running a large practice. We will also look at what doctors can do in their own practice to save time and money. My special guest is Associate Professor David Williams, a neurologist and the general manager of Avant practice solutions, which sponsored this podcast. With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 18 mins.

Today we are discussing the future of food and nutrition, in the context of a rising global population and the need for nutrition from sustainable sources. My specialist guest is Professor Johannes le Coutre, a professor of food and health at the UNSW Sydney’s School of Chemical Engineering. With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins.

Today we are discussing new research into the barriers and facilitators to voluntary assisted dying in the state of Victoria. My special guests are Professor Ben White, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, and Ruthie Jeanneret, a PhD Student, both in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, at the Queensland University of Technology.  Read their research in the MJA: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.52004 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 21 mins.

Today we are discussing how to handle challenging patient interactions with some tried and tested methods. My special guest is Dr Owen Bradfield, Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Indemnity Protection Society, which sponsored this podcast. Dr Bradfield is a general practitioner and a lawyer.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins.Photo supplied by the Medical Indemnity Protection Society.

Today we are discussing 3D printing and its uses in limb reconstruction, deformity correction and complex arthroplasty. My special guest is Dr Mustafa Alttahir, an orthopaedic surgeon at Macquarie University Hospital which sponsored this podcast.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 14 mins. Photo supplied by Macquarie University Hospital.

Today we are discussing how to improve health outcomes in regional Australia.  My guests are A/Prof. Bernadette Ward and Dr Pam Harvey, both at the School of Rural Health, at Monash University in Bendigo. You can read more about this topic at: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/8/doctors-not-used-efficiently-in-the-bush/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 17 mins.Photo by Shutterstock / Taras Vyshnya

Today we are discussing advances in breast cancer treatment and how innovation can lead to earlier detection, more effective treatments and better quality of life. My guests are Dr Negin Sedaghat, a specialist breast surgeon and surgical oncologist, and A/Prof. Jeremy Hsu, a specialist breast cancer surgeon. Both my guests practice at Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney, which sponsored this podcast. With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.Photo by Shutterstock / BigmanKn

Today we are discussing innovations in hand and wrist surgery. My guest is Dr Matt White, an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hand and wrist surgery from Macquarie University Hospital (MUH), which sponsored this podcast With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 13 mins.Photo by Jennifer Taylor, vividity.com.au

Today we are discussing innovations in robotic-assisted surgery. My guests are Prof. David Gillatt, a specialist urological surgeon and the director of medical services at Macquarie University Hospital (MUH), and Professor Michael Wilson who is a specialist cardiothoracic surgeon at MUH, which sponsored this podcast.   With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

Today we are discussing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) with Prof. Jennifer Smith-Merry, who is the Professor of Health and Social Policy and the Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney. She has written about the need for better equity in the NDIS in the Medical Journal of Australia: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/mja2.51899 With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins. 

Today we are discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted medical staff on the frontline. Dr Marion Mateos was juggling being a new mother and her first consultant role, as the pandemic began. Marion is a paediatric oncologist based at the Kids Cancer Centre in Sydney, a clinical academic at the University of New South Wales and a clinic research fellow at the Childrens Cancer Institute. You can read more here: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/4/balancing-oncology-and-motherhood-in-a-pandemic/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 16 mins.

Today we are discussing doctors at war, as part of ANZAC Day commemorations, with Colonel Robert Likeman (Retd). Colonel Likeman served in the Australian Army for 24 years as a medical doctor. You can read more at: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/14/doctors-at-war-stories-from-the-frontline/With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19 mins.

Today we are discussing Long COVID with Dr Danielle Hitch, an occupational therapist and a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Geelong and Western Health in Melbourne.  Dr Hitch and her team have published the first Australian study into lived experience of Long COVID and COVID recovery. You can read more at https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/8/long-covid-why-isnt-anyone-listening/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 21mins.

Today we are discussing the importance of investing in mental health care to help improve economic and social participation with Associate Professor Jeffrey Looi, a clinical academic psychiatrist and Head of the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology.  With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 19mins.

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study is published as a supplement in the 3 April 2023 edition of The Medical Journal of Australia. We are joined by researchers David Lawrence, who is Professor of Mental Health in the School of Population Health at Curtin University, and Associate Professor Holly Erskine, who leads the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiology and Services research stream at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 12 December 2022. Associate Professor Andrew Morokoff is a neurosurgeon with The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne. He talks about the role of spinal surgery, particularly spine fusion, in the treatment of low back pain, to accompany his coauthored narrative review published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 5 December 2022. Professor Anne Kelso AO will be stepping down as CEO of the National Health and Medical Research Council in 5 months' time after 8 years in the role. She talks about gender equity in medical research funding and a new program introduced by the NHMRC, to accompany her MJA article on the subject. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 5 December 2022. Dr Sandro Demaio is Chief Executive Officer of VicHealth. He wrote recently for InSight+ about five design principles which should be the foundation of any national centre for disease control, and in this podcast he expands on those ideas. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 30 November 2022. Dr Violet Kieu, Dr Antoinette Anazodo and Professor Kate Stern are coauthors of new COSA guidelines for fertility preservation for people with cancer, and of a guideline summary published in the MJA. They talk about options for preservation, recent advances, and the importance of early referral to fertility specialists after cancer diagnosis. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 11: 28 November 2022. Professor Markus Schlaich is Director of the Dobney Hypertension Centre in Perth, and Dobney Chair of Clinical Research at the University of Western Australia. His recently published research on dual endothelin antagonist aprocitentin for resistant hypertension can be found at The Lancet. His op-ed for InSight+ is free to access and can be found here. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 7: 21 November 2022. Associate Professor Louise Stone is a GP, researcher, and medical educator. She is a vocal advocate for her GP colleagues through her articles at InSight+, other media and her Twitter account, @GPswampwarrior. Her new coauthored book on sexual abuse between doctors is in the works. For more information about the book and how you can help make it open access, visit ofdoctorsbydoctors.com ... With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 10: 14 November 2022. Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT in Brisbane, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. Her coauthored MJA Perspective on the need for Australian standards for indoor air quality is available here. Prof Morawska is a member of OzSAGE. Their advice on ventilation and air quality is available here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 10: 14 November 2022. Professor Eddie Holmes is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and one of the world's leading experts on emerging viruses and zoonotic diseases. He talks the need to fix the politics before we can fix pandemics, the toxicity of conspiracy theories and the three viruses that worry him the most. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 9: 7 November 2022. Sarah Larkins is Professor of Health Systems Strengthening at James Cook University. Dr Nicole Allard is a GP and COVID Clinical Lead at cohealth in Melbourne. Their Perspective -- Management of COVID‐19 in the community and the role of primary care: how the pandemic has shone light on a fragmented health system -- is part of an MJA Supplement -- Managing mild to moderate COVID-19 in Australia. They would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Primary and Chronic Care Panel of the National Clinical Evidence Taskforce. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 9: 31 October 2022. Professor Raina MacIntyre is Professor of Global Biosecurity at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales. Her new book, Dark Winter: an insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity is available from NewSouth Books from 1 November, 2022. Prof MacIntyre is one of the founders of OzSAGE, and developer of EPIWATCH. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 8: 17 October 2022. Dr Johanna Birrell is a public health and general medicine advanced trainee at the Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control. Professor Bart Currie is from the Royal Darwin Hospital and the Menzies School of Health Research. They discuss the prevention of invasive group A streptococcal disease, to accompany their research published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 8: 10 October 2022. Professor George Braitberg AM is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital. He is also the Emergency Medicine Head of the Centre for Integrated Critical Care Medicine. He talks about the way we can think about and respond to climate change through the lens of disaster medicine. To accompany his MJA Perspective published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Mark Frydenberg is a Melbourne-based urologist, specialising in urologic oncology and cancer surgery. He talks about modern paradigms for the detection and management of prostate cancer, to accompany his Narrative Review published in the MJA. There is also an InSight+ article on this topic. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Rosemary Calder AM is Professor of Health Policy at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University. Professor James Dunbar is Honorary Professor in Deakin University's School of Medicine. They discuss the Being Equally Well program for people with serious mental illness, which is the subject of their MJA Supplement and Editorial. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 6: 26 September 2022. Dr Bailey Dunn is a Canadian who did her medical school and training in Australia, falling in love with Tasmania. She and her husband bought John Street Medical in Kingston, Tasmania just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She introduced burnout prevention strategies which have saved the sanity and health of her GPs, given her patients more options, and have turned the practice into a financially viable proposition. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 6: 19 September 2022. Professor Ginny Barbour will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and InSight+ on 23 January 2023. She was one of the founding editors of PLOS Medicine, and is currently Director of Open Access Australasia. She talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about her vision for the MJA going forward. 

Vol 217, Issue 6: 13 September 2022. Dr Lachlan McIver is an Australian rural generalist, currently working as the Tropical Diseases and Planetary Health Advisor for Medicines Sans Frontieres in Geneva. His book Life and death decisions, is now available from all good bookstores. If you are interested in working for MSF, visit https://msf.org.au/join-us. If you are a rural generalist interested in making a difference in Pacific Island nations, visit https://rocket-ship.org/rocketship. If you are interested in delivering telemedicine in rural and remote New South Wales, visit https://wnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/our-services/telehealth/. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 5: 5 September 2022. Dr Wendie Berg is Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Ms JoAnn Pushkin is a breast cancer survivor and advocate for breast density notification. Together they founded DenseBreast-info.org, providing resource and educational material for patients and doctors about the importance of breast density for breast cancer risk. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 5: 29 August 2022. Dr Karen Price is a GP, and President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Monash University. She talks about her term as President, priorities for general practice reform going forward and her reflections on what the GP theme song should be. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 4: 22 August 2022. Dr Kean-Seng Lim has been a GP in Mt Druitt in Sydney's outer west for almost three decades. He is dedicated to prevention, and has a passion for delivering high-quality care both face-to-face and via digital technologies. He has just been given the AMA's 2022 Excellence in Health Care award. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 4: 15 August 2022. Professor Steve Robson is an ob/gyn, former President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and has just been elected as the President of the Federal Australian Medical Association. He spoke with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about his priorities for his upcoming term in office. 

Vol 217, Issue 4: 8 August 2022. Professor Brendan Crabb AC is the Director and CEO of the Burnet Institute in Melbourne. He talks about the latest evidence about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, including long COVID, reinfection, rebounding, and the new modelling from the Burnet about the benefits of mask use. National COVID numbers here. State-by-state breakdowns here. Global comparisons here. Burnet Institute COVID-19 hub here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 3: 1 August 2022. Professor Kelsey Hegarty is an academic GP and joint Chair of Family Violence Prevention at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Women's Hospital. She leads the NHMRC Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence. Her coauthored narrative review is open access and can be found here. Other resources: 1800 RESPECT ... Personal Safety Survey ... InSight+ article by Kelsey Hegarty ... The Choice: Violence or Poverty by Dr Anne Summers AO. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. 

Voice of the GP Episode 3: 25 July 2022. Dr Lilon Bandler is a GP, medical educator and researcher, with a long history of working with and developing education programs for Indigenous medical students and practitioners. Her new enterprise is collaborating with the Wayside Chapel in King's Cross to provide health services for Wayside visitors. 

Vol 217, Issue 2: 18 July 2022. Dr Michelle Kennedy from the University of Newcastle, and Dr Raglan Maddox from ANU are coauthors, codesigners and co-owners of research published in the MJA Supplement, Indigenous-led evidence to inform smoking cessation care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The Supplement is also accompanied by an editorial here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 2: 11 July 2022. Dr Liz Sturgiss is a GP, NHMRC investigator and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. Dr Claire Madigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour at Loughborough University in the UK. This podcast accompanies their InSight+ article which can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 1: 4 July 2022. Dr Simon Quilty is a public health physician from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at ANU. Mr Norman Jupurrurla is a Warumungu Elder and Director of the Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation in Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. They talk about climate, housing, energy and their impacts on Indigenous health, to accompany their coauthored Perspective published by the MJA here. The MJA's Indigenous health issue is available here. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 1: 27 June 2022. Dr Tina Janamian is the CEO of Client Focused Evaluation Program Surveys Australia. She discusses achieving person-centred primary health care using a value co-creation approach, to accompany her co-edited Supplement, and co-authored Editorial, published in the MJA. 

Voice of the GP Episode 2: 20 June 2022. Dr Jillann Farmer is a Brisbane-based GP, who also happens to be the former Medical Director of the United Nations. Dr Farmer talks about her experiences managing the UN's response to Ebola, Zika, COVID-19 and the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, as well as her joy at being back in general practice, despite the current challenges of the profession. Accompanying article in InSight+ can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell..  

Vol 216, Issue 11: 13 June 2022. Associate Professor Fiona Shand and Dr Michelle Torok are with the Black Dog Institute. They discuss school-based youth suicide prevention programs, to accompany their editorial, and research by Grummitt and colleagues, published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Vol 216, Issue 10: 6 June 2022. Dr Adriana Nevarez Flores and Associate Professor Amanda Neil are with the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania. They talk about seasonal affective disorder and whether it should be taken more seriously in Australia, to accompany their coauthored Perspective published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

 Vol 216, Issue 10: 30 May 2022. Dr David Williams is Group Leader of the Emergency Diseases Laboratory Diagnosis Group at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness at the CSIRO. He talks about Japanese encephalitis virus, to accompany a case study published by other authors at the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 1: 23 May 2022. Dr Alisha Dorrigan is a general practitioner, writer, and medical editor based in Sydney. She talks about what inspires her in general practice and the challenges facing primary care in the current economic and political environment. Dr Dorrigan's latest article for InSight+ can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 9: 16 May 2022. Professor Mark Harris is Scientia Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at UNSW Sydney. He talks about continuity of care in general practice to accompany his coauthored editorial, and Reed et al research, published by the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 9: 16 May 2022. Dr Rachel David is CEO if Private Healthcare Australia, the peak representative body for private health insurance. She discusses the big issues in the private health sector and some possible solutions. This podcast accompanies a news article published in InSight+. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 9: 9 May 2022. Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin is Chief Executive Officer of the Public Health Association of Australia. He talks about the big three issues plagueing the public health system, and offers some solutions. To read more on this topic, read our InSight+ article. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 8: 2 May 2022. Professor Claire Jackson is a GP, and Director of the Centre for Health System Reform and Integration at the University of Queensland. She discusses the big problems facing general practice, and possible solutions, to accompany her MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 8: 2 May 2022. Anne Woollett is the Director of TrialHub, a partnership between Alfred Health in Melbourne and hospitals in outer metro, regional and rural hospitals across Victoria, to give greater access to clinical trials for non-urban Australians. To accompany her InSight+ op-ed. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 8: 25 April 2022. Professor Martin Hensher is the Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health System Sustainability at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. He talks about the economics and COVID-19 vaccines and the opportunities Australia has to lead the region in vaccine development and manufacture, to accompany his coauthored Perspective published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 7: 18 April 2022. Professor Fraser Brims is a consultant respiratory physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Director of Early Years Clinical Skills at Curtin University Medical School. He discusses progress with lung cancer prognosis and management, to accompany his coauthored Perspective published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 7: 11 April 2022. Dr Alexa Seal is a Research Fellow at University of Notre Dame Australia's Rural Clinical School at Wagga Wagga. Associate Professor Matthew McGrail is Head of Rural Training Hubs Research in the Rural Clinical Schools Program at the University of Queensland. Their coauthored research is published by the MJA, where it is open access. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 7: 11 April 2022. Associate Professor Luke Grzeskowiak is a clinical pharmacist and Practitioner Fellow at Flinders University and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. He talks about hormonal contraceptive use following early medical abortion, to accompany his coauthored research letter published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 6: 4 April 2022. Associate Professor Paul Lacaze is Head of Public Health Genomics at Monash University. He discusses population DNA screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, Lynch syndrome, and familial hypercholesterolaemia, to accompany his coauthored MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 6: 28 March 2022. DR CR Robert George is a microbiologist and pathologist with John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. Professor Monica Lahra is Medical Director of Microbiology, NSW Health Pathology at the Prince of Wales Hospital. They talk about the decline of invasive meningococcal and influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic, to accompany their coauthored MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 5: 21 March 2022. Professor Fiona Kelly is Dean and Head of the La Trobe University Law School. Dr Ken Pang is a paediatrician with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. They discuss Re: Imogen's impact on access to treatment for transgender youth in Australia, and the concept of Gillick competency in mature minors. This accompanies their coauthored Perspective at the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 5: 14 March 2022. Associate Professor Jennifer Power and Associate Professor Timothy Jones are from the Australian Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. They discuss conversion practices and how health practitioners can help their LGBTQA+ patients to recover. This accompanies their open access MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Vol 216, Issue 4: 7 March 2022. Professor Evelyne de Leeuw is the Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation at UNSW Sydney. She talks about the need for action to help disadvantage and vulnerable communities recover from COVID, and long COVID, to accompany her coauthored MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 4: 28 February 2022. Associate Professor Michael Buckland is a neuropathologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, and one of the founders of the Australian Sports Brain Bank. He talks about findings from the first 3 years of the ASBB, to accompany his coauthored open access research letter, published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 

Vol 216, Issue 3: 21 February 2022. Dr Stephen Russell is from the University of Alabama. Dr Maja Artandi is from Stanford University. They discuss the practicalities of conducting a patient examination via video telehealth. To accompany their Perspective for the MJA ... other resources at digitalhealth.gov.au, and the RACGP ... InSight+ article here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 3: 14 February 2022. Professor Sabe Sabesan is Senior Medical Oncologist at the Townsville Cancer Centre and Clinical Dean at Townsville University Hospital. He discusses a framework for guiding clinicians through leading change management using clinician levers and collaboration. To accompany his coauthored MJA Perspective The art and science of clinicians leading change. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Vol 216, Issue 2: 7 February 2022. Associate Professor Amirali Popat and PhD candidate Liam Krueger, from the University of Queensland, talk about the potential of 3D printing for enhancing personalised medicine by tailoring medications. Their coauthored MJA Perspective is available here. The InSight+ article on this topic can be found here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.