Wednesday 28th September

Gidget Breakfast Session (sponsored by Gidget Foundation)

Presentation by Dr Vijay Roach

“From Illness to Wellness; shifting the paradigm in perinatal mental health care”. Dr Vijay Roach, garden-variety obstetrician and certainly no academic, challenges the status quo. Do health professionals impose the illness model on pregnant women and their families? Is it time for us to take a back seat and to empower the consumer? Be careful not to choke on your muesli as the Vice-President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Chairman of the Gidget Foundation wakes you up in his inimitable, sometimes controversial, style.

Time:  7.30-8.45am

Cost:  included in full registration

Seats are limited - booking required

Vijay Roach is an obstetrician and gynaecologist working in private and public practice in Sydney, Australia. He is the Vice-President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Lecturer at the University of Sydney and Chairman of the Gidget Foundation, a not for profit organisation, whose mission is to promote the importance of emotional wellbeing among expectant and new parents, their health providers and the wider community to ensure that those in need receive timely, appropriate and supportive care. He is married with five children.