Dr Georgina Hale gained her medical degree at Monash University (Hon) and completed her basic physician training at the Repatriation Hospital in Heidelberg, Melbourne. She did her infectious diseases advanced training (infectious diseases and microbiology) in various hospitals, including the Alfred (VIC), John Hunter (NSW), and Royal North Shore hospitals (NSW).
Dr Hale worked as an infectious diseases consultant in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, before moving to Los Angeles for two years, where she did a two-year research fellowship at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center. There she published two clinical trials on the cardiovascular and endometrial effects of plant and soy isoflavones (with professors Claude L. Hughes and Noel C. Bairey Merz).
Dr Hale returned to Sydney to complete her PhD at the University of Sydney with Professor Ian Fraser in the hormonal dynamics underlying the midlife and menopause transition, publishing several peer-reviewed papers from her data.
During her PhD and for several years after, Dr Hale was the primary specialist physician at the Port Hedland hospital in WA, gaining valuable experience in general medicine, community acquired and chronic infections, type II diabetes, heart failure, alcoholic liver disease and Indigenous health/disease.
In 2011, she moved to the Sunshine Coast where she resumed both general medicine and infectious diseases clinical work. She has also studied the ‘systems biology’ approach to diagnosis (with the Institute of Functional Medicine in the USA). She incorporates these functional medicine principles in her private clinic in Yandina.
Dr Hale’s areas of interest include:
- Hospital acquired and surgical infections and antibiotic management
- Chronic infections including osteomyelitis
- Perimenopausal and menopausal hormonal health
- Functional GI symptoms including IBS
- CFS/FM, POTS, mast cell dysfunction (MCAS), long COVID.