This doctor’s ‘one-year’ trip to Australia in 2006 ended up reshaping international guidelines
Wins in her research career lessens the sting from disappointing clinic days.
Professor Britta Regli-Baronin Ungern-Sternberg von Purkel arrived in Australia with her husband in 2006 for a one-year stay.
Almost 20 years later, she is still here.
Now one of the country’s leading paediatric anaesthetists, she says she fell in love with Australia’s medical culture, which has encouraged her to embrace her curiosity and pursue research while practising.
“In Switzerland — where I originally trained — it is mandatory, if you are on an academic pathway, to do one year abroad.
