Victoria is a medical doctor and a PhD research student at the Menzies School of Health Research in the Northern Territory. She graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School before reading for an MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford as a John Monash Scholar. Her work in the Northern Territory is focused on tropical skin disease and how best to implement community skin health programs in remote Aboriginal communities across northern Australia. Victoria successfully co-authored a submission to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to include ivermectin as a first-line treatment for scabies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. She will spend 2025 working with the Director of Global Health Dermatology at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as a Fulbright Scholar.

Beyond her work at the hospital, Victoria is an accomplished sportswoman who made history as the first Australian to complete the ‘Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming’ within a single season—achieved in just 2 months and 2 days in 2017 (including the 34km English Channel, 33km Catalina Channel, and 46km 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Marathon Swim). While at Oxford, she broke several university swimming records and earned a Full Blue. After many years patrolling with Glenelg Surf Life Saving Club, she was deterred from continuing her open water pursuits in the NT after witnessing too many croc bite injuries! These days, if she’s not at the hospital, you’ll likely find her surfing the waves at Komune in Keramas.