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Back in the late ’90s, Geraint Lenegan used to deliver groceries with his semi-trailer to Aboriginal communities in remote Western Australia. He didn’t know it then, but his ultimate delivery…

Partners of health professionals in rural WA can further their professional and skills developments through Rural Health West’s Partner Education Grants. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, the…

When COVID-19 started to make its way to the Pilbara, it wasn’t long before our most vulnerable population would become impacted. The three Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in the…

The University of Notre Dame Kimberley immersion program assists up to 100 second-year medical students develop an understanding of life in remote Western Australia. The program provides an opportunity for…

When Haydn Clancy gave up teaching in Melbourne to start a new adventure, he didn’t think he would end up practising medicine in the Pilbara. No stranger to regional life,…

It was at her uncle’s medical graduation where Dr Cherelle Fitzclarence (then aged five) proudly declared she wanted to be a doctor. Decades on, Cherelle is living that dream, working…

Growing up in the farming community of Denbarker fostered the love of a rural lifestyle for physiotherapist Karen Rodgers-Smart. Starting her own clinic MoveSmart Physiotherapy in her new hometown of…

He’s been around the world but there’s no place like Wagin according to Dr Pieter Van Maarseveen. Pieter qualified as a general surgeon in his native Holland in 1985. Shortly…

With three generations of eye care professionals in his family, Peter Tidman said a career in optometry was inevitable. “My father Harold Tidman and mother Anna Tidman (née Lee) were…

With the advent of COVID-19 and the subsequent border closures, many remote Aboriginal communities such as Tjuntjuntjara were left without their usual fly-in fly-out (FIFO) medical staff. For most of…