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Connected Conversations | Kylie Dunning
Kylie Dunning has been dedicated to improving reproductive health since she pivoted her career from gene therapy. She hopes to create new technologies that make fertility care more effective and accessible. Having personally experienced some of the challenges of starting a family, Kylie wants to help hopeful parents who face the challenges of infertility—an often invisible and stigmatised condition affecting more than 15% of Australians. Alongside her work and family, she enjoys gardening and enjoying all that Adelaide has to offer.
Connected Conversations | Paul Mcliesh
After 23 years of nursing in the orthopaedic trauma department at the RAH, including running wards, Paul Mcliesh joined the university bringing his broad professional experience and translating it into interesting and insightful content for his students.
Connected Conversations | Dimitra Lekkas
Associate Professor Dimitra Lekkas is passionate about her role, she wholeheartedly wants her students to have the best study experience during their time at the University. She is committed to supporting them achieve their goals, just as she was during her studies. She believes a good mentor can really shape the university journey and help students become the best they can be. She loves gardening and the outdoors, if she isn’t at work, you will most likely find her in her garden or on a hike in the beautiful Adelaide Hills.
Connected Conversations | Mark Kohler
The first in his family to go to university, Dr Mark Kohler arrived in Adelaide from rural Tasmania with $2000 in his pocket and a dream to study psychology. His unbridled curiosity and interest in discovering the ‘whys’ of life had prompted his father to suggest a career as a psychologist. Hindsight shows it was a sage suggestion and today, Mark is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology—proving that, sometimes, parents really do know best. Now with five children of his own, Mark intertwines teaching and inspiring the next generation of psychology students with research endeavours focused on child wellbeing and learning.
Connected Conversations | Tom Nelson
What do commerce, Canada and cars have in common? Tom Nelson! After completing a commerce degree right here at the University of Adelaide, taking a gap year in Canada and working at BMW (with a myriad of jobs in between), Tom landed in the faculty marketing team as Product Specialist. Tom has been the product specialist over the last 2 years and assists with marketing and recruitment activities across the faculty. When not at work, you will find him riding his bike, enjoying drinks on Rundle Street or gardening.
Connected Conversations | Scott Clark
Scott Clark prefers to take the road less travelled and his remarkable journey to Associate Professor and Head of the Discipline of Psychiatry (among clinical roles) certainly came about via an unusual path that included leaving school after year 11, an electrical apprenticeship, singing in a cover band and a PhD alongside MBBS studies.
Connected Conversations | Kimberly Charlton
Kimberly Charlton’s love of science, unwavering determination and wanting to help others has seen her grow and excel in her career in Occupational Therapy.
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Connected Conversations | Tony Cambareri
An interest in science since childhood led Tony Cambareri to an early career in medical research and after a brief period away Tony’s heart led him back to health where he has worked over the last thirty years.
Connected Conversations | Zohra Lassi
From her early days in research, when she took a research position studying the community-based maternal and newborn packages in Pakistan, Zohra Lassi has been driven to help those who need it most. Her early experience sparked a passion for research that not only shapes global health guidelines but has the power to transform entire communities.
Connected Conversations | Laura Eadie
In geographical terms, Dr Laura Eadie has come full circle. After undertaking a Bachelor of Science at the University of Adelaide, she moved to Memphis to pursue a Fulbright fellowship looking at mouse models of leukaemia before returning to Adelaide, where she now leads the T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (T-ALL) group at SAHMRI.
