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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.
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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.
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.
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 Carolyn Masarei is an experienced Palliative Medicine Specialist with extensive experience working in a regional area.
She was the first palliative care specialist resident in the region and was instrumental in setting up the specialist palliative care unit and overseeing the growth of the service. She is passionate about ensuring patients living in rural and remote areas are able to access high quality specialist palliative care close to home. She was awarded Specialist of the year in the 2020 Rural health Awards
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 Ahmed Nagla is a Palliative Care Physician at Latrobe Regional Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. As the Palliative Care Clinical Lead at The Latrobe Regional Health, Nagla is dedicated to advancing service development and education to ensure equitable and timely access to quality palliative care across Victoria. In addition to his full-time clinical and service leadership responsibilities, Nagla is deeply committed to Medical Education and building research capacity in regional areas, ensuring that the unique needs of these communities are addressed. He currently serves as a member of the Training Committee for Palliative Medicine, overseeing the training and certification of all specialists in Palliative Medicine across Australia and New Zealand. Furthermore, he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Clinical Education at the University of Melbourne, with his project focusing on clinical reasoning.
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.
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 Siva Subramaniam (Siva) obtained his postgraduate medical qualifications at the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom (London) before completing his consultant training in Palliative Medicine in London and Kent.
He completed a Masters in Palliative and Supportive Care at University of Kent, UK and worked in hospital, hospice and community settings in England.
He obtained his Fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians /Palliative Medicine in Australia and currently works in palliative medicine for GV Health and the West Hume Region. He delivers regular educational sessions at the University of Melbourne.
Siva has conducted multi-centre research studies, has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented at many national and international palliative care conferences.
He is passionate about patient-centred care, symptom control, palliative care education and early supportive care.
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.
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