Elliot
Lead Humanities Tutor (Melbourne)
Elliot Dolan-Evans is a PhD student in political economy and feminist studies, a non-practicing medical practitioner, and a law graduate, awaiting admission in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Elliot was awarded an MBBS at Griffith University and hasy completed his internship at the Prince Charles Hospital. Throughout medical school and his early practice, Elliot has been strongly involved in the medical community. During medical school he pioneered and founded the award-winning Surgical Interest Association (www.surgia.org), helped establish the national student surgical body, the Australasian Students’ Surgical Association, represented his fellow medical students in roles with the Griffith medical society and in the university, and was also involved in work with the Australian Medical Students Association. Elliot published six research papers during his time in medical school, in neuroscience, medical/surgical/dental education, and thyroid cancer. Throughout medical school Elliot also held down numerous casual employments, as well as volunteering positions in refugee and asylum seeker health and legal representation. He still volunteers his time with the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, and the Salvation Army.