Dr Katina D’Onise
Dr Katina D’Onise completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1999 for which she was included on the Dean’s List for academic merit. In the course of her medical degree she was awarded a scholarship to undertake her final year of medical training in rural South Africa which exposed her to the effects of extreme poverty on the health of a population. On completion of her degree she practiced 6 years of clinical medicine, with an interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
Over this time she completed training in General Practice and was awarded a Fellowship to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2005. Dr D’Onise completed a Master of Public Health (2005) and began practising Public Health Medicine, involving a wide array of public health practice including in health systems, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and health services for homeless people. She has undertaken training and completed the requirements of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and will be awarded a Fellowship in 2008.
Through her Advanced training in Public Health Medicine Dr D’Onise was
selected in both 2006 and 2007 to represent South Australia in the National
Annual Scientific Meeting of Public Health Physicians. She was awarded the
Gerry Murphy prize for her presentation “Paediatric Influenza in South
Australia: Should universal influenza vaccination for young children be
considered in South Australia?” in 2007.