05/06/2023
Updated biography I submitted for a recent presentation I gave on a career in General Practice - a snapshot about me.
Dr. Rikki Priest
MBBS(Hons), BSc, MRACGP, DRANZCOG, GCertHPEd, GCertHL, GCertHCoach.
Rikki Priest is first and foremost a mother to her two young kids. She is also a GP Obstetrician Registrar in her final year of GP training.
She was born in Kalgoorlie and had a modest upbringing by her single mother and worked hard to get into medical school and pursue a career in medicine and obstetrics, graduating from the University of Notre Dame Fremantle with honours in 2013.
Her postgraduate qualifications include a Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Professional, Executive and Health Coaching Certification and Postgraduate Certificates in both Health Professional Education and Health Leadership.
She was nominated for Junior Doctor of the year state finalist during both her internship and first year of residency, and has received the clinical audit prize, best research poster prize and social justice prize during medical school.
Rikki is a passionate paid professional speaker, educator and executive and health coach. She is an Associate lecturer at The University of Notre Dame Fremantle and an Adjunct Lecturer with Curtin University School of Nursing and Midwifery. She hosts workshops for Doctors and medical students nationally on motivational interviewing and behaviour change and also does mental health advocacy work and promotional speaking with Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia and the Doctors Health Advisory Service of Western Australia.
In 2020 she collaborated with Ana Ayala, friend, midwife and sleep consultant, to develop a course on beyond birth preparation for expecting parents.
Her current mixed methods research focus is on how GPs can work with expecting families to plan for better support in the first few months beyond birth with grant funding from the Australian Government.
She HATES running.
