Contributors to Of Doctors By Doctors

Although the editors for this project are the same research team that led the pilot study Of Doctors By Doctors, we are privileged to collaborate with a number of distinguished researchers in this new research anthology.

Below you will find the names of our collaborating researchers, the chapters they are contributing to the project, and short biographies.

Dr. Clarissa Fabre

Chapters:

History of Women in Medicine

United Kingdom

After completing her medical training in Sydney, Australia, Dr Fabre worked for a year in Canada (including work with indigenous Indian and Eskimo children) before moving to the UK (London and then Oxford). Her initial specialist training was in adult medicine and paediatrics, including two years of clinical research in Oxford on perinatal factors affecting child growth and development.

For the last 30 years she has been the Senior Partner in a semi-rural general practice in the UK. She also developed an interest in medical politics, culminating in the presidency of the UK Medical Women’s Federation (2010-2012), and representative of all East and West Sussex general practitioners at the British Medical Association (BMA) in London (2005 to 2012).
Dr Fabre was appointed to the position of Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) representative at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2012. She became MWIA president-elect in 2016, and took up the presidency in New York in 2019. She was closely involved in developing MWIA’s training module on Violence against women and girls, and is particularly interested in the involvement of men and boys in prevention

Dr. Ian Freckleton

Chapters: International Law and Workplace Violence

Dr. Dabota Buowari

Chapter: Nigeria

Dr Dabota Yvonne Buowari is a Nigerian anesthesiologist, emergency physician, poet and author. She is member of the Research and Scientific Committee of the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) since 2010 and Vice-Chair of the work life balance special interest group in 2019. She is a victim of sexual harassment at the workplace, which triggered her interest in the topic. Dabota was part of the team that conducted the MWIA sexual harassment study. She is a member of the Research Collaboration Network of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria conducting the Challenges of Residency Training and Early Career Doctors in Nigeria Study (CHARTING STUDY).