ACNEM Board, Annual Report and Strategic Plan

Dr Yeoh graduated from medicine at the University of London in 1999 and has obtained her membership with the Royal College of Physicians (UK). She has a Masters degree in Nutrition from King’s College London. After practicing hospital medicine, she worked as a physician in the field of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. She is a member of the American and British Academies of Environmental Medicine where she received her further NEM training. She moved to Australia in 2012 and is now working as a medical practitioner at Invitation to Health, where nutritional medicine is integrated with preventive health care and general practice. She has also been dedicated to developing NEM training for the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and is on the teaching faculty. She has a strong clinical interest in neurological, gastrointestinal and metabolic health. She is passionate about teaching on the interconnectedness of human metabolism, biology and behaviour. 

Dr Perlen graduated from medicine at Monash University, Melbourne in 1990. She completed her RACGP fellowship in 1994 before moving to Perth in 1995 joining Lockridge Medical Center in outer metropolitan Perth. She has a strong integrative focus and a passion for teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervising and mentoring medical students and GP registrars. In 2009 she was awarded the RACGP National GP Supervisor of the Year award. She first trained with ACNEM in 1995 and was surprised by how many pieces of the health puzzle this new training provided. She maintained an interest in integrative medicine however returned to nutritional medicine training in 2012 after her young son suffered a complex and undiagnosed illness. This led to renewed passion for the field of nutritional and environmental medicine that had developed significantly in the interim especially in relation to the impact of gut and the microbiome on all other areas of health. Nadine continues to practice in a busy conventional general practice and now integrates NEM into all of her patient care and teaching. She also travels monthly to a rural town with the Royal Flying Doctor Service for a women's health clinic. She joined the ACNEM Education Committee and board in 2016 and continues to be involved in teaching NEM to medical students, doctors and other health practitioners.

Dr Hayes graduated from Monash University, Melbourne in 1990. She has completed the Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of GP's, Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning, London School of O&G and a Diploma of Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr Hayes has worked for 3 years in the UK and has also worked in rural Victoria, Australia, as a family doctor. She has been in Singapore since 1997 working as a GP looking after families from the expatriate community.

Dr Parker started his academic career with 3 years of preclinical training in Chiropractic at the Sydney College of Chiropractic in the 1978. He completed a Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of NSW with a major in Anatomy in 1981. Dr Parker obtained a Bachelor of Medicine Degree in 1986 and worked in General Practice. He completed the Diploma of Obstetrics in 1992 and obtained his Specialist Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1999.

Dr Parker has been an advocate for healthy lifestyle, “natural birth” and minimizing obstetric intervention throughout his career and has been employed in a number of training, research and educational roles since 1982. He was a past Editor of the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.

Dr Parker is passionate about the role of nutritional and environmental factors in the prevention and treatment of gynaecological health problems and the epidemic of chronic diseases. He is committed to ensuring that Medical Students, General Practitioners and Specialists receive education and training in the rapidly developing area of the Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.