We introduce you to our latest Surfing Doctors member – Remote Area Nurse Mel Howard
Profile:
Work Experience
– RAN Coral Bay and Bremer Bay
– ED Perth, Margaret River, Tassie
– Offshore Medic on various pipe lay barges
Travel
– Surf — Most of Indo, Peru, Mexico, Maldives, Malaysia
– General — Europe, Asia, South America, USA, Africa, Japan, Fiji, NZ
Favourite surf spots
– Beng Beng, Mentawais
– Chickens, Maldives
– Grupuk, Lombok
– Tiger tracks, G-Land
– Dark Hollow, Tasmania
Studies
– Bachelor of Nursing UTAS; third year exchange in Sweden
– Postgrad Cert Tropical Medicine and Refugee Health
– Pharmacotherapeutics for RANs
– Vaccination and Immunisation certificate