Dr Cecelia O’Brien

Please listen to our newest podcast, in our Hometown Inverell series, portraying the people that are the faces and the fabric of Inverell. This is just another wonderful story about a young girls dream, battling all odds to achieve her goal and make her dream come true of being a doctor. It started all here in Inverell and we are talking to Dr. Cecelia O'Brien.

She has made it her goal to deliver high quality and equitable pregnancy care to women living in rural and remote North Queensland.

She has a background in perinatal research with ongoing interests in stillbirth, diabetes in pregnancy and improving access to timely antenatal care and outcomes for Aboriginal women and their babies.

She is a Senior lecturer at James Cook University. Dr. O'Brien shows a strong interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Dr. O'Brien has a strong leadership background with excellent communication and organisation skills.

It was a privilege for me to interview Dr. O'Brien who I met on one of my kayak tours at Lake Inverell.