Natasha Yates

• General Practitioner, PhD Candidate, Bond University

Natasha Yates (MBBS, FRACGP, PhD Candidate) is a practicing clinician and passionate medical educator. She has her fingers on the pulse of what matters to her community and is frequently called upon to translate medical knowledge into everyday language. Previously the deputy lead of General Practice at Bond University, Gold Coast, she recently resigned in order to pursue a PhD in medical education.

True to General Practice in the Australian context, her clinical practice spans from 'womb to tomb'. She currently practices in mainstream general practice as well as working in Medical Education. Her PhD is in the area of teaching and learning in collaborative, co-regulated learning environments (especially Simulation Based Education). In addition to teaching General Practice at Bond University, she has also taught clinical reasoning and critical thinking. She served on the Bond University Research Ethics Committee from 2020 - 2024 which gave her a wealth of insight into research across faculties and the community.

Natasha is also the mother of four school aged children. She loves to see children fall in love with reading, and her first children's novel 'Rina's Story' was a finalist in the American Book Excellence Awards 2021. It is sold to raise funds to support child literacy in Mozambique.

• –present Assistant Professor, General Practice, Bond University

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