IVF and Beyond
Saturday 18 October 1500-1600
Speaker: Dr Lynn Burmeister, MB BS. FRANZCOG CREI Specialist Fertility Clinician
After graduating in medicine from Melbourne University in 1989 and completing an intern year at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, Dr Burmeister commenced training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Monash Medical Centre in Clayton. In 1998 Dr Burmeister commenced her Fellowship training in endocrinology and infertility before travelling to the USA where she completed a further two years of training at the Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility – Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Dr Lynn Burmeister has a formal post-graduate qualification in reproductive medicine (CREI), testifying to her specialist expertise and experience in the treatment of infertility. She is known as a Reproductive Gynaecologist. With more than 10 years’ experience in the management of obstetric and gynaecological conditions Dr Burmeister’s areas of interest and expertise include:
Having qualified and practiced as a medical practitioner in Australia, Ranjani developed a desire to add greater dimensions to western medical practice. To this end she has gained qualifications in a range of additional therapies, moving away from standard general practice. Some of these include training at the Mind-Body Institute at Harvard, Meditation practices with Dr Deepak Chopra, Neuro- Linguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy, and breathwork These together with her cultural background allows Ranjani to combine Eastern and Western practices and philosophies to empower her clients to integrate the body , mind and spirit. She currently runs her own practice in Mind- Body Medicine. She counsels using many modalities and runs meditation workshops. She has been involved in teaching medical students and running meditation workshops for a number of organisations. She has written articles on mind-body health and recorded meditation CDs.
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