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Published on: 12/30/2008
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President, Dr Desiree Yap
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Desiree is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.She has appointments at two of Melbourne's major Women's Hospital's: Monash Medical Centre (Part of Southern Health and a Monash University Hospital) and The Royal Women's Hospital (a University of Melbourne teaching hospital) and currently works part-time in her East Melbourne Private Practice whilst trying to mother two young children (3 and 4 ½).She is trying desperately to reach a goal of three days a week, but runs along at about 4 days per week!
Before becoming so domestic, she travelled widely, working both in rural and remote Australia as well as overseas including with WHO.She joined VMWS after attending the Sydney MWIA conference in 2001 to present a paper on Refugee Health, and where she found the conference a rather transforming experience.The recent Regional Conference in Melbourne provided a little taste of this!She believes that VMWS springs from a fine tradition, as does AFMW and MWIA.She also believes that as one who has reaped the benefits of those who went before, in addition to having strong feelings about social justice, that she has a responsibility towards maintaining the organisation and furthering its aims, many of which are unfortunately far from being accomplished, although things are much better that in the past.
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Desiree Yap
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Dr Desiree Yap
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