A gut feeling that your brain is the key
Considering the debilitating and socially restricting effect digestive and gut health issues can wreak on people’s quality of life, there is still a huge amount we […]
Medicine
Giving back leads to personal progression
After some gentle encouragement from his parents, a shy 13-year-old Dr Felix Ho ASM OAM (MD ’15), or just Felix at the time, would begin volunteering […]
A whole-hearted commitment to improved cardiac care
His nickname at school was Cardiac – such was Professor John Beltrame AM’s (BM, BS ’86) fascination with the heart. Although, his high school grades didn’t […]
Producing cells that reset a damaged immune system
As many as one in 10 people worldwide are affected by autoimmune diseases – but many treatments that manage the symptoms have had inconsistent results and […]
Advocating for a better way
There’s a saying that ‘the dissatisfied dead cannot noise abroad the negligence they have suffered.’ For Dr Roger Hunt (BM BS ’81, FAChPM ’00, MD ’03) […]
Defying danger to provide urgent health care in Gaza
The horrors of war have loomed large before Australian surgeon Dr Bushra Othman (BM, BS ’10), who has been volunteering to perform emergency surgery on war […]
Skating to better rehabilitation thanks to an ingenious idea
Great medical ideas can come from the most unlikely places – such as a grandmother on a farm using a skateboard to rehabilitate after major knee […]
New Indigenous doctors strengthen NT’s medical future
In December 2024, 21 new graduates – including three Indigenous graduates – received their Doctor of Medicine (MD), marking a milestone in the Northern Territory […]
The professors who laid the foundations
The great ambition and risk taken by Flinders University to create Australia’s first integrated Medical School with a new clinical hospital was brought to life […]