Dr Brett Ritchie
is a paediatric infectious disease physician who has a special interest in sustainable health care improvements through the transfer of knowledge and skills using an evidence based approach.

He is a full time staff specialist in the Infectious diseases unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and first visited Indonesia with FOHG in 2006. He has made regular trips since, with a focus on supporting the implementation of local clinical practice guidelines for doctors and nurses.

For more information on how FOHG is achieving sustainable health improvements in paediatrics in NTT, please contact Dr Brett Ritchie.

Dr Sean Beggs MBBS, FRACP, MPH
is a general paediatrician and clinical pharmacologist who has a longstanding commitment to child health in the Asia Pacific region. 

He has a particular interest in essential medicines for children and their rational use.  He also has a strong interest in medical education.  He is a staff specialist at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania.

His day to day work involves caring for sick children, co-ordinating the paediatric teaching for the medical students and the training of doctors studying to become paediatricians.  He has also completed a Masters of Public Health specialising in International Health.

Dr Helen Bradley
is employed full time as a senior lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery at the University of South Australia.

With a passion for improving health in developing communities, she has worked as a volunteer in Timor, Leste, Indonesia and Aboriginal Australia, and researched in Laos and the Philippines. 

She has facilitated visits to Adelaide for Indonesian Hospital Administration and Management staff and worked as a consultant with the WHO to evaluate the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Making Pregnancy Safer program. 

Helen provides seminars in Global Health for the Uni, aimed at encouraging young professionals to assist education programs overseas.

Helen is currently the project leader of the FOHG program for Maternal & Neonatal Health in Flores.

Dr Meredith Craigie
Honorary Secretary, FOHG
Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre
Clinical Senior Lecturer,Flinders University
Qualifications: MB, BS, B Med Sc, MM (PM), FANZCA, FFPMANZCA
Dr Craigie helped to form FOHG in 2007 as a means of “giving something back”. 
Each FOHG visit to Indonesia reminds her how lucky Australia is.  She is amazed that communities living so close to us only receive the most rudimentary of health care.  By sharing her medical knowledge and skills she hopes to help raise the standards of health care for the people of the Nusa Tenggara Timor region.
Dr Craigie has worked as an Anaesthetist since 1984.  During this time she has specialised in paediatric anaesthesia and pain medicine and holds a particular interest in paediatric chronic pain.
Her role at Flinders Medical Centre also allows her to support the medical education of 3rd and 4th year GEMP medical students, Anaesthesia trainees, nursing and paramedic students.  Dr Craigie is also an Examiner for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and for the Faculty of Pain Medicine.

 

Dr Peter Riddell
Executive Committee, FOHG
General Surgeon, Flinders Medical Centre
General Surgeon, Flinders Private Hospital
Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Flinders University
Qualifications:
Dr Riddell has a long interest in teaching and surgical work in Nusa Tengarra Timor, and started travelling to West Timor in 1995.  Since then he has spent time each year in the region and has helped establish the Flinders Overseas Health Group as a major deliverer of medical expertise and training in West Timor. 
He has worked in hospitals in Kupang, Soe, Atambua, Kefamenanu and Ende and feels privileged to have met and worked with so many wonderful people in NTT.
He has been a specialist General Surgeon (FRACS General Surgery) for 24 years, and worked in all the major teaching hospitals in South Australia, and in Darwin NT.  Dr Riddell undertook further training in plastic and reconstructive surgery and gained specialist registration (FRACS Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) in 2004. 
He works at Flinders Medical Centre public hospital and Flinders private hospital, both in Adelaide.