Mya Cubitt is a New Zealander, living since 2005 in Australia with her South African husband and their three Australian children. There is always a winning rugby team in her household! Mya trained at Otago University, finishing her clinical training in Wellington and her first years as a doctor in Hawkes Bay, NZ. She then embarked on a peripatetic journey through NSW and QLD, completing her advanced training in Emergency Medicine in WA and VIC. Mya won the Buchanan Prize for the highest scoring candidate in the fellowship exam for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). Mya has lived in Melbourne since 2011 and completed a year long fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at The Royal Children’s Hospital, before beginning practice as an Emergency Physician at The Royal Melbourne Hospital – one of two adult major trauma units in the state. Mya also works in the Acute Medical Unit where she has evolved a passion for improving the care of injured older patients. In 2018, she completed a masters in Trauma Science at Queen Mary University with a dissertation on frailty assessments in trauma. In 2021, Mya convened the first seminar and research workshop on Geriatric Trauma, #GEMSEM2021. Mya is a member and past Chair of The Royal Melbourne Hospital Medical Advisory Committee, Chair of the Victorian Faculty Board for ACEM and an expert advisor to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission review of Ambulance Victoria, and the National COVID19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. You will also find her on your TV screens in Emergency – an observational documentary series filmed at The Royal Melbourne Emergency Department, and as a member of The Royal Melbourne Hospital scrub choir.
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