Deana Henn
Co-Editor
Deana has worked in Australia and the USA on a range of business titles. Before joining Medical Observer in 2003 as associate editor she worked as the assistant managing editor of two New York-based business titles. She also has 15 years' experience in newspaper and magazine publishing as a business and news editor, political reporter, and travel writer and editor. Deana has won multiple industry awards as a reporter and editor and holds a BA in Communications (Journalism).
Phone: (02) 9902 7876
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: deana.henn@medobs.com.au
Kellie Bisset
Co-Editor
Kellie has been a journalist for 18 years and during that time has edited both MO and Australian Doctor and worked as a reporter at The Daily Telegraph, The Newcastle Herald, and The Daily Commercial News. She rejoins MO after running her own business for two years, writing and editing for publications such as Medical Observer, The Australian, The Sun-Herald, The Journal of Complementary Medicine and PathWay, the magazine of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.
Phone: (02) 9902 7850
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: kellie.bisset@medobs.com.au
Dr Libby Harris, MBBS (Hons), FRACGP
Medical Editor
Libby obtained her MBBS (Hons) from UNSW in 1990 and has practised as a GP in Sydney and Canberra for the past 15 years. She obtained her FRACGP in 1996. Libby was student affairs co-ordinator at the University of NSW from 2005 until mid 2007 when she joined Medical Observer. She continues to work part-time as a GP on Sydney’s north shore and has a weekly live radio spot on ABC Radio in Canberra.
Phone: (02) 9902 7861
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: libby.harris@medobs.com.au
Simon Wooldridge
Digital Editor
Simon has been a journalist for 15 years, writing features for the likes of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and working on staff at HQ Magazine covering politics, social issues and profiles. He has worked as an online contributor for the News Corp property whammo.com.au, via the Content Company. Most recently he was editor of Rolling Stone Australia, from 2003-2007. He joined Medical Observer in 2008.
Phone: (02) 9902 7804
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: simon.wooldridge@medobs.com.au
Brad McLean
News Director
Brad has been a journalist for eight years, working primarily in medical media and communications. He was clinical news editor for Australian Doctor for five years and deputy managing editor of Medicine Today before joining Medical Observer in 2008. He has won two National Press Club awards for medical feature writing. Before becoming a journalist, Brad spent 10 years nursing in a range of clinical, education and research roles.
Phone: (02) 9902 7867
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: brad.mclean@medobs.com.au
Chris Brooker
Medical News Editor
Chris has worked as a journalist for health-related titles for the past six years, covering mainly health politics and drug-related issues. Before joining Medical Observer, he was news editor of a pharmacy magazine. He has also contributed freelance articles to other trade magazines and online publications. He has a Bachelor of Arts with postgraduate journalism qualifications.
Phone: (02) 9902 7869
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: chris.brooker@medobs.com.au
Shannon McKenzie
Political News Director
Shannon has worked as a journalist for the past 10 years in Australia and the UK, including work as acting editor of Public Health News and features editor at Optician. She has also been a regular freelance contributor to Drink & Drug News and the Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. In 2006 Shannon was shortlisted by the UK Health Writers Guild for the trade/specialist feature writer of the year award.
Phone: (02) 9902 7862
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: shannon.mckenzie@medobs.com.au
Dr Bianca Cannon, B Med, MBBS (Hons), FRACGP
Clinical Review Editor
Bianca coordinates Medical Observer’s GP education platform, ‘Update’ and also works part-time in private practice in Sydney. Before joining Medical Observer in 2007 she worked as a lecturer in general practice for the University of Sydney. Her special interests are women's health and paediatrics.
Phone: (02) 9902 7866
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: bianca.cannon@medobs.com.au
Martin Foster
Chief Sub-Editor/Business Editor
Martin has been a journalist for almost 15 years, with experience in daily and weekly newspapers, monthly titles and TV news in Australia and England. He has worked as a writer and sub-editor with regional daily newspapers in the UK, covering international sporting events and off-diary stories, and filled a senior communications and editing role with the Australian Medical Association (NSW) Limited for four and a half years. Martin has worked at Medical Observer since 2003 in various roles including chief sub-editor, business editor, and administrator of MO’s GP online education platform.
Phone: (02) 9902 7870
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: martin.foster@medobs.com.au
Andrew Bracey
Political News Reporter
Andrew joined Medical Observer in 2006 after graduating with a Communications degree from Charles Sturt University. He reports on medico-political issues relating to general practice, focusing on rural health, and was highly commended as best newcomer to journalism 2007 (Australian Bell Awards). Andrew also has a degree in Sport and Recreation.
Phone: (02) 9902 7872
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: andrew.bracey@medobs.com.au
Elizabeth McIntosh
Political News Reporter
Elizabeth has been writing since graduating from the University of South Australia in 2003. She’s worked for The Naracoorte Herald and ABC Radio in regional South Australia, and as a senior reporter for Scotland’s The Falkirk Herald. Elizabeth also volunteered as an English teacher in Vietnam and Kenya before joining Medical Observer in 2008.
Phone: (02) 9902 7862
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: elizabeth.mcintosh@medobs.com.au
Rada Rouse
Medical News Reporter
Rada has been a staff reporter for Medical Observer since 2002, based in Brisbane. An experienced medical journalist, she has covered health politics in the Canberra press gallery, reported on medical research for the national wire service AAP, and freelanced articles to Nature Medicine In 2006 Rada won the inaugural RACGP award for clinical practice journalism.
Phone: (02) 3300 6536
Email: rada.rouse@medobs.com.au
Kirrilly Burton
Medical News Reporter
Kirrilly has a wide range of media experience working on a number of magazines and in TV production and scriptwriting roles. Before joining Medical Observer in 2007, she worked as a photojournalist for The Noosa Weekender magazine, covering lifestyle issues. She has also written episodes for the TV series Home & Away and On The Land, and worked as a film critic.
Phone: (02) 9902 7868
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: kirrilly.burton@medobs.com.au
Catherine Hanrahan
Medical and Political News Reporter
Catherine has a PhD in immunology and worked as a post-doctoral scientist in a rheumatology institute in London before moving into medical communications. She has experience in GP, specialist and allied health professional medical education and is an accredited Educational Activity Representative with the RACGP. Catherine joined Medical Observer in 2008 as a clinical and professional news reporter.
Phone: (02) 9902 7865
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: catherine.hanrahan@medobs.com.au
Dr Linda Dayan
Medical Observer’s sexual health writer Dr Linda Dayan is a previous director of the Sexual Health Service at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr Dayan now works in a private sexual health and HIV practice at Taylor Square Private Clinic in Darlinghurst, Sydney, and writes a monthly column - Sexual Healing – for Medical Observer.
Dr Stephen Fenton
Heart of the Matter author Dr Stephen Fenton graduated from Sydney University in 1976 and trained at Sydney Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Westmead Hospital. The leading cardiologist commenced private practice in March 1983 and this practice subsequently grew to become the Sydney Cardiology Group. Dr Fenton has membership of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the American College of Cardiology.
Dr Bob Kass
Dr Bob Kass is one of Australia’s pioneers in the discipline of travel medicine. After acting as general manager and then CEO and national medical director of the Travel Doctor-TMVC between 1989 and 2001, he moved on to work with and take on a senior lecturer’s appointment in the University of Adelaide’s department of general practice where he is involved in their International Health course. He writes Medical Observer’s monthly Travellers’ Checks column.
Professor Dédée Murrel
Professor Murrell is head of dermatology, St George Hospital, and conjoint professor at the University of NSW, Sydney. She is also consultant dermatologist for Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) at Sydney Children’s Hospital. Her special interests include blistering disorders, genodermatoses and clinical trials. Professor Murrell coordinates Medical Observer’s dermatology casebook, Occasional Spot
Professor Gordon Parker
Mind Over Matter author Professor Gordon Parker has been ranked as one of the world’s leading researchers in his field and is in the top 0.1% of cited authors on psychiatry/psychology research internationally. He is scientia professor of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, and executive director of the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales.
Margaret Pomeranz
MO film critic Margaret Pomeranz and At the Movies co-presenter David Stratton celebrated 20 years of on-screen partnership on Australian television in October 2006. Outside of the weekly ABC1 show, Pomeranz has served as a member of the Advertising Standards Board, is a past president of the Film Critics Circle of Australia, and is a past president, currently vice-president of Watch on Censorship.
Dr Stephen Schumack
Dr Stephen Schumack is honorary secretary of the Australasian College of Dermatologists, head and VMO at departments of dermatology at St George Hospital, Kogarah, University of NSW, and Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, University of Sydney. Dr Schumack coordinates Medical Observer’s dermatology casebook, Skin Things.
Dr Susan Towns
Dr Susan Towns is head of the department of adolescent medicine and a senior staff specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. Her special interests include how coping with chronic illness interacts with the developmental changes of adolescence. She has continued ongoing clinical research to advocate for adolescent health issues, and writes Medical Observer’s adolescent health column Teen Troubles.
Rob Millington
Art Director
Phone: (02) 9902 7790
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: robert.millington@medobs.com.au
Melissa Hartley
Graphic Designer
Phone: (02) 9902 7792
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: melissa.hartley@medobs.com.au
Saidie Malki
Graphic Designer / Pre Press Coordinator
Phone: (02) 9902 7853
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: saidie.malki@medobs.com.au
Lynda Wilton
Sub-editor / Online Editor
Phone: (02) 9902 7871
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: lynda.wilton@medobs.com.au
Robert Santos
Sub-editor
Phone: (02) 9902 7873
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: robert.santos@medobs.com.au
Frazer Mackenzie-Andrew
Group Advertising Manager
Phone: (02) 9902 7854
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: frazer.mackenzie-andrew@mims.com.au
Rose Fulete
Sales Manager
Phone: (02) 9902 7831
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: rose.fulete@medobs.com.au
Mike Mata
Sales Manager/Classified Advertising Manager
Phone: (02) 9902 7851
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: mike.mata@medobs.com.au
Lee Priday
Advertising and Production Manager
Phone: (02) 9902 7852
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: lee.priday@medobs.com.au
Romina Villanueva
PA - Sales and Management
CMPMedica Australia
Phone: (02) 9902 7857
Fax: (02) 9902 7778
Email: romina.villanueva@medobs.com.au