Margaret Oziemski
Dr Margaret Oziemski has been a fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists since 1994 working earlier in 1989 as Clinical Research Fellow on Extracorporeal Photochemotherapy in Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma at the royal Melbourne Hospital. In 1995 she worked at various Hospitals in Melbourne as a Visiting Dermatologist and in Private Practice before studying at St Thomas Hospital London after being awarded the FC Florance Bequest and the Paul Eddington Memorial Fellowship in 1996. On returning she and her family moved to Queensland where Dr Oziemski has been in private practice in Morris Towers Spring Hill to this day. In this time she has been active in setting up a website on sun safety and a brochure on Sunsafety, being on the QCOMP Dermatology Assessment tribunal for 9 years, and was a Australasian College of Dermatologists representative to the Queensland Cancer Council contributing to the brochure on skin cancer as well as was appointed to the Skin Cancer Prevention Working Group for QHealth. She has been a member of the Queensland Medical Womens Society, The Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group, the Australasian Dermatolopathology Society and the Medicolegal Society Queensland. She has presented work on Vitamin D deficiency in a Sunny Climate at the International Vitamin D Conference in Warsaw in 2012 and has been involved in registrar training as well as presentations to general practitioners on dermatological conditions and skin checking. Her continued interest in sun safety and patient education was translated into fundraising also for Melanoma Patients Australia and in providing lectures.Her current focus on sunburn in open sided beach shelters has allowed a production of a Preparing for summer brochure as well as representations to State and Federal members of parliament to look at legislative compliance with the Australian Standard for the open sided beach shelters. In her spare time Dr Oziemski is a keen quilter and creative artist painting and undertaking crochet projects for friends and family.
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