2025 August Dinner
Event description
Queensland Medical Women’s Society (QMWS) invites members and guests to join us on Thursday 14th of August 2025 for our next Dinner Meeting event. Our special guest speaker will be Dr Loyola Wills.
Sensing that Salt Water - The Journey Home, A Spoken Yarn
Retelling the story of Igilyawa “Custodians of Life” who travelled as a group to Country in 2024
Dr Loyola Wills
Dr Loyola Wills, is a medical woman from the Wagadagam Tribe, situated at Mabuyag and Badu Lag in Zenadth Kes, the Torres Strait Islands. Loyola is “first and foremost a mother of two kaazi (young children)”, and training as a junior doctor (PGY2) on the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACCRM) Program. She is part of the Torres Strait Islander Doctors’ group (Igilyawa “Custodians of Life”) who travelled as a group to Country in 2024. This was the subject of her moving key-note presentation at the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Conference in Adelaide as Purple Bush Medicine Leaves Recipient in 2024. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Flinders University, before completing a Doctor of Medicine MD.
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