About Ida
Ida is a Paediatric and Fetal Cardiologist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, with a visiting role in Darwin and the Northern Territory. She holds an MBBS with honours from Monash University (supported by the Monash University Scholarship for Excellence and Equity), a Diploma in Child Health from the University of Sydney with High Distinction and an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine from Oxford (supported by the John Monash Foundation and the Rotary Global Grant Scholarship), with a research thesis on paediatric rheumatic heart disease. Ida undertook a specialised fetal cardiology fellowship at Montreal Children’s Hospital/McGill University Canada in 2023, with the support of the McGill University Clinical Bursary Award and the MIGA Doctors in Training Grant. Ida has volunteered in six different low-resource countries in Oceania, Asia and Africa, and has had significant experience in the Northern Territory and remote Aboriginal communities in rheumatic heart disease work, research and advocacy. Outside of work, Ida loves running, spin classes, speaking French, and travel, and has taught flying trapeze to children in New York State during a gap year!
