Women’s and Children’s Health Update: Cervical Screening Program

Dr Talat Uppal is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist who currently works both at the Northern Beaches and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospitals as a Visiting Medical Officer. She has a DDU sonographic qualification obtained in 2010 which gives her an advantage of being formally trained in ultrasound. She is the Director of Women's Health Road, and has set up an innovative, digitally integrated, multidisciplinary obstetric and gynaecology service with in-house ultrasound facilities. Dr Talat Uppal is also a Clinical Senior lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Northern Medical School, University of Sydney. Her past, decade long role was based at Many and Mona Vale Hospitals, as Senior Obstetrics Staff Specialist and Clinical Director of Women's, Children & Family health. She is the past Chair of both the NSW State Reference Committee and NSW RANZCOG Education Subcommittee. Dr Talat Uppal is a Fellow of the Australian Association for Quality in Health Care as well as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management. She is the joint coordinator of Diploma (DRANZCOG) OSCE examination as her special interest is supporting the role of General Practitioners in the Women's health context. She is enrolled in a University of Sydney PhD looking at collaborative models of maternity care. She is a RANZCOG media spokesperson and an active member of the RANZCOG Gender Equity and Diversity Working Committee. Dr Talat Uppal is fluent in 3 languages and has much overseas exposure with volunteer teaching work