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Dr Hester Wilson

General Practitioner, NSW
Panellists have generously contributed to our CPD webinars. Please note that they are not employed by MHPN, and we are unable to contact them or provide referrals on your behalf.

Hester is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, (RACGP), as well as a Fellow of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is the Chair of the RACGP Special Interest Group in Addiction and works for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Drug and Alcohol Service and in general practice in Sydney.

As an experienced medical educator, Hester has written widely on general practice and substance use issues and was involved in planning and facilitating the recent RACGP AOD training. She recently convened the 6th International Medicine in Addiction Conference and is a member of a number of state and national committees looking at Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, opioid stewardship and the roll out of real time prescription monitoring.

She is currently undertaking a PhD focused on GPs’ experience of patients with chronic pain and prescription opioid use disorder.

Dr Hester Wilson has presented on the following MHPN activities:

Personality Disorders and Substance Use – Tips on Effective Treatment Approaches, 04 Jun 2018
Complexities in working with co-occurring mental health and alcohol and other drug presentations, 04 Oct 2022
Working collaboratively to manage comorbid mental health and methamphetamine use, 04 Aug 2016

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