VICDOC Autumn 2023 - Magazine - Page 32
DR
INES
RIO
—
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
I
nes is a specialist general
practitioner with postgraduate
qualifications in public health,
law, obstetrics, venereology, and
governance. Her special interest
areas are maternity care, child
health, women’s health and the
care of marginalised women
and children. Ines is also a GP
obstetrician and head of the General
Practice Liaison Unit at the Royal
Women’s Hospital, Chair of North
Western Melbourne PHN, a
member of the TGA’s Advisory
Committee on Vaccines, a member
of the Department of Health’s
CALD Communities COVID-19
Health Advisory Group, and an
Executive member of AMA Federal
GP Council. She is committed to
quality, effective, efficient, equitable
and integrated health care services
and the central importance and
role of general practice and primary
care in this provision. Ines is also a
mother to a 24-year-old daughter
and a 22-year-old son.
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