Sandra Eades

Prof Sandra Eades is a Noongar physician and researcher, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. She is Dean of the Curtin Medical School, Australia's first appointment of an Indigenous Dean to a medical school. Prof Eades previously worked as a general practitioner; and has served as the Head of Indigenous Maternal and Child Health and Associate Head of Preventative Health Research at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute; as a Senior Research fellow at The Sax Institute; as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney; and became Associate Dean Indigenous at the University of Melbourne.