Stories

Most public hospitals reserve places for domestic students. So she was delighted when MQ Health accepted her into the Doctors in Training program. “What really attracted me was that it was very strongly based around teaching and research, which I di...

MQ Health’s Professor Martin Ng successfully performed a minimally invasive repair of the tricuspid valve to address tricuspid regurgitation, a condition where the damaged valve leads to the backflow of blood from the right ventricle to the right at...

An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain or spine, with haemorrhage a major risk. Melbourne-based Jack developed an AVM at the age of five. He was treated with LINAC radiosurgery, which obliterated most but n...

“It took a long time to sink in and I felt pretty horrible,” says Luke. “But I came good after about six months.” Newly married to Cobie, the couple, both 24 years old at the time, decided to use IVF to conceive. “It was pret...

As a New Zealander, Associate Professor Sumit Raniga sub-specialised in shoulder and elbow surgery with an aim to work with the All Blacks. But when MQ Health asked him to develop an orthopaedic research program and set up a Shoulder and Elbow clinical pr...