Speaker

Dr Sarah Whitelaw is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She has held leadership positions in both AMA Victoria and the federal AMA, and chairs the federal AMA Equity Inclusion and Diversity Committee. She sits on both the Commonwealth Medical Workforce Advisory Collaboration and the Diversity in Leadership working group of the “A Better Culture” coalition. She is on the board of the Victorian Doctors Health Program, the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine Health System Reform Committee and on the national steering committee of the Advancing Women in Healthcare as the AMA partner representative. Her involvement in health system advocacy commenced in medical school and has never stopped, and she still believes it is our responsibility as doctors to improve Australia’s healthcare system for our patients and our community. No one else is going to do this “for us”, and no one else is better placed.