Women are under-represented in some areas of health research and fundamental differences between women and men are not adequately included in medical school curricula. As a result, Australian women with chronic conditions report feeling dismissed and disbelieved by their doctors. Join Dr Lea Merone as she discusses this phenomenon.
Dr Merone graduated with honours in the top 10% of her cohort with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2011. Following emigration to Cairns, Australia, she completed two Masters degrees in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Health Economics. She obtained her Fellowship of The Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FAFPHM) in June 2020 and subsequently worked as a Public Health Physician in sexual health.
Dr Merone went on to complete her PhD in women's health and is now working at the UQ Academy for Medical Education. She is now studying for an MSt in Practical Ethics at Reuben College Oxford, and her interests are in the ethics of clinical diagnosis and empathy in medicine. She is also pursuing her second PhD in the Philosophy of medically unexplained syndromes.
