Speaker

Dr Carrie-Anne McKenzie is an Indigenous doctor, RACGP Fellow and Rural Generalist originally from Darwin. She has spent 12 years in the Northern Territory, with almost 10 of those in Katherine, before moving back to Mt Gambier, South Australia early 2022. She graduated from Flinders University medical program at the end of 2010 and did 2009 and 2010 of the course in Mt Gambier before moving back to Darwin for her internship. In the NT, Dr McKenzie worked in Royal Darwin Hospital for two years, predominantly in Emergency, and then moved to Katherine to work in mainstream general practice for 18 months. Dr McKenzie became the sole doctor in an Aboriginal community for 6 years, as well as working in the Katherine Hospital ED. She then moved on to Clinical Lead in the main town-based Aboriginal Medical Service, as well as doing Aged Care. Prior to leaving Katherine, Dr McKenzie went back to work in Katherine Hospital and developed, coordinated, and led the COVID response for the Big Rivers Region alongside the two physicians, facilitating timely access to advice for clinicians across the region as well as streamlining access for hospital admission for patients. In Mt Gambier, she was clinical educator for the third-year medical program, Director of the Rural Clinical School and Director of the Flinders University Regional Training Hub. Currently, Dr McKenzie is a Medicolegal Advisor for MIPS, as well as a non-executive Board Director on the Limestone Coast Local Health Network Board, and in 2023 completed the Future Leaders Program through RACGP.