Alisha Thomson

Ovarian cancer champion, fundraiser and advocate.
MBBS 2014- Med Ed reg and RANZCP trainee passionate about wellbeing.

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Raining socks with the medical education and workforce team @TownsvilleHHS #crazysocks4docs @DocHealthQLD We support mental health awareness and starting important conversations

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@crazysocks4Docs

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

#crazysocks4docs Townsville University Hospital and Townsville Med Staff Society supporting colleagues to sit together for coffee, cake and conversation #MentalHealthAwareness

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@aclairet @MonicaTCMIO @DrMelNaidoo @CCIM_official @DrBecStewart Thanks Allison, Bec and I actually live in the same street in Townsville :) We haven't met up for a while but we did have a little local medical education group going with @DrBecStewart @AsheCoxon @danny_tucker

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Thank you @MonicaTCMIO @aclairet @DrMelNaidoo and all. The health system certainly benefits from your super powers
#CCIM2020 @CCIM_official

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@BreneBrown as a health professionals currently learning leadership theory I would like to know after having read Dare to Lead where your approach fits. My view is that it is operationalised authentic leadership theory... Sorry for trying to put you in a box. I love your work.

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Thrilled to see the late @jillemberson recognised with a #OrderOfAustralia for advocacy work for women like myself with ovarian cancer @PinkMeetsTeal. Thank you Jill x

[Kate Engelke @KateEngelke]

How great is this cake!!! Thanks TMSS for sponsoring Crazy Socks 4 Docs Day @TownsvilleHHS @gdtoogood @crazysocks4docs @DocHealthQLD Support and kindness for your colleagues is essential everyday but today we do it with cake!

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@medManagerRACMA Townsville has joined in. Dr Hodge is making sure everyone gets cake 😉

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Thank you Townsville Medical Staff Society. 25 cakes around the hospital to share as a team and start a conversation #CrazySocks4Docs

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

#crazysocks4docs #crazysocks4docsday
For mental health awareness amongst health professionals

[The Sydney Morning Herald @smh]

Opinion: As Trump’s America shows, a system that restricts genuine education to the wealthy elite must eventually drown in its own ignorance. Educating the educable is about the culture we make. It is our best defence against world collapse https://t.co/2YaBaOHKpC

[Dr Krystal Evans PhD @dr_krystal]

The "pink-collar recession" @annabelcrabb nails it. "Women right now are more likely to lose work that is paid and also more likely to pick up work that is unpaid" #genderequity #womenatwork #covid19 https://t.co/Ma0JtZ84Nd

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Getting a friend ready for #crazysocks4docsday with the gift of personalised socks. @TownsvilleHHS will be in full support with the foundation selling socks in the lead up. #MentalHealthAwareness #crazysocks4docs

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@DrPaulaConroy @womenandmed @normanswan @HelenaTeede @DrESigston Hi Women in Leadership Champions. My hospital exec want to address the gender disparity within our medical leadership. Can you point me in the direction of some resources to start the discussion in the hospital and help us with a starting point for action? Thanks

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Jill Emberson addressing the inequality of cancer funding in Australia. All cancers deserve 90% survival rates and nurses based off need not cancer diagnosis. https://t.co/frWfADIwSl

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@CCIM2019 for me was about connectedness & being true to yourself. What did I take home? The importance of being honest and sharing your vulnerabilities something all the presentors did beautifully.

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

@Dochansra @crazysocks4Docs @CCIM2019 I think Drs wellbeing is at risk of being a tick box action if we don't keep pushing for real and meaningful change.

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

Today I was walking down the hall and recognised a nurse's crazy socks as ones sold to promote #CrazySocks4Docs last week. Me, 'Nice dachshund socks'. Nurse, 'Thanks. They are socks for the docs'. Me= 😀
In Townsville we sold 471 pairs of socks for #CrazySocks4Docs #mentalhealth

[Dr Neela Janakiramanan @NeelaJan]

Thank you, as ever, @WomensAgenda, for letting me write about friends and colleagues dearly missed, and how important it is we fix this. If only the subject of this story were the only one. https://t.co/XkDGsSAELu

[Alisha Thomson @alishathomson11]

#CrazySocks4Docs preparation in #Townsville. So keen to walk the halls tomorrow and see the support and awarness for health practitioners mental health. @gdtoogood keep up the awesome work, thank you.