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Geriatrician Bunbury Regional Hospital | Adj Ass Prof @uwanews | Adj Clin Ass Prof @curtinUni | Hon Clin Ass Prof @LivuniILCAMS
Bunbury, Western Australia
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Arriving to my workplace this winter morning at Bunbury Regional Hospital. Beautiful view to start the day🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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30years & 6 months working as a medical doctor in Nigeria (2years), England (27years), USA (1year fellowship) & Australia (6 months). I love my job & consider it the greatest privilege & honour working within a multidisciplinary team focusing on what matters 2 people 🇳🇬🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺
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We are grateful to our mother Dr Izabella Sielewicz-Akpan (rtd) who left her homeland 🇵🇱 and raised us with her husband and our Dad (died in 2008) in 🇳🇬 Thank you mum. We wish you the very best for 2024 ❤️😊🇵🇱🇳🇬🇬🇧🇦🇺👍🏽
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29 years after arriving in England from Nigeria with a one page A4 sized CV, I am emigrating for the third and possibly final time in my life to Southwest Australia.Taking a last early morning stroll to my favourite cafe before heading for the airport ✈️🇵🇱🇳🇬🇬🇧🇦🇺❤️🙏🏾😊🌎
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2 geriatricians who trained in d same medical school
#UCHIbadan
,Nigeria🇳🇬,did their postgraduate residency training in geriatric & general(internal) medicine in the UK 🇬🇧 & now working together in d dept of geriatric medicine, Bunbury Regional Hospital, Bunbury WA🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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For Friday’s freestyle scrub day I am delighted to be wearing the number 36 jersey
@ChelseaFCW
of my niece
@AshantiAkpan
who is on loan to
@BCFCWomen
🇬🇧🇳🇬🇵🇱👍🏽
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Last week I voluntarily gave up my licence to practice medicine in the United Kingdom. A key moment & milestone for me as I commit the next chapter in my life journey to my new homeland Australia where I was granted provisional registration to practice in October last year 🇦🇺👍🏽
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I am always grateful for all the opportunities I have had. At this stage in my life and career creating opportunities for others is my main focus 🙏🏾❤️😊
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Since I first held them in my arms, it has been a joy and fulfilment to be a father. All grown up now and finding their own way in this 🌍❤️
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First week in my new place of abode and work, Bunbury in Western Australia about two hours drive south of Perth. My dreams keep on taking me to wonderful places on this 🌎 I shall start as a consultant geriatrician in a couple of weeks. In the meantime some more travelling😊
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This move 2 Western Australia feels so good. I have knowledge & expertise that is needed here & my employer Bunbury hospital
() have given me excellent terms & conditions of service. Everyone has been so friendly & kind. I enjoy everyday at work🇦🇺❤️😊🙏🏾
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Settling into my role as a substantive geriatrician at Bunbury regional hospital in Bunbury, Western Australia🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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Never seen such big chocolate bars😂
Our wonderful patients are so kind. Cards, flowers and now chocolates😊❤️👍🏽🇦🇺
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Six months since I relocated to Australia my new home where I have been welcomed, supported & encouraged to have a great lifestyle enjoying my new job as well as a great work life balance 🙏🏾❤️🇦🇺😊
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Today is our last full day together before my daughter
#MaitaneAkpan
returns to England after spending four weeks exploring Australia ❤️🇦🇺😊
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My first Christmas Day in Australia providing clinical care to older people with my colleagues 🎅🏾🌲🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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I am so grateful for the years we had together. Being a father has been my greatest achievement ❤️😊
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I am delighted to have been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Internal Medicine at
@uwanews
@UWAresearch
and
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Medical School, Faculty of Health at
@CurtinUni
🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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The woman who carried me in her body, then in her arms and ever since in her heart. My mother Dr Izabella Sielewicz-Akpan ❤️🙏🏾❤️
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Today was awesome flying from the platform at the Agincourt reef on the outer barrier reef (The Outer Reef marks the point where the complex coral system meets the great, wide ocean) to Port Douglas, north of Cairns 🚁🪸🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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It truly is beautiful here. On my way to work this morning 🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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Thank you 2
#SueMusson
Chair of
@LivHospitals
4 congratulating me on receiving employee of d month award nominated by patients. I am delighted, humbled & honoured 😊
@Mersey_Care
@NHSSSCCG
@NIHRCRN_nwcoast
@GeriSoc
@LivuniILCaMS
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“Lay your troubles on my shoulder &
put your worries in my pocket”
During my consults as a community geriatrician this is really what I try to convey. A significant time spent listening actively & being a coach.
A great honour & privilege to serve our older adults
@GeriSoc
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Was my turn to deliver a lecture to my medical doctor colleagues (interns & resident medical officer) in the teaching, training & research hub at Bunbury regional hospital. Lecture was on delirium. Good interactive session 🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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Every weekday morning I go through my patient list. This in addition to the journey board MDT helps me plan the ward round with my colleagues. Very similar to pre flight checks that pilots go through before take off 🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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After reviewing patients as part of my on call duty in Bunbury regional hospital in the morning, I spent the afternoon of the first day of 2024 🚶🏽in my neighbourhood reflecting on the last 12 months & looking forward to the next months & years in 🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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My mum is 79 years old today. Celebrating with her in her hometown Warszawa 🇵🇱 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Delighted 2 be appointed Deputy Chair
@GeriSoc
England Council.Look 4ward 2 supporting our membership in all that we do with & 4 OP
@SarahMistryBGS
@LivuniILCaMS
@kazstuart480
@NIHRCRN_nwcoast
@OlderTrialsProf
@LivHospitals
@Mersey_Care
@BlackInGeron
@DunhillMedical
@TheIHI
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Relocated from Liverpool, UK on the 23 October 2023 to take up a role as a consultant geriatrician in Bunbury Regional Hospital, part of WA Country Health Service
Excellent terms and conditions of service including a great work life balance 🇦🇺😊👏🏽👍🏽
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“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” Michael Palin 🚙✈️🚶🏾🚂⛵️😊👍🏽
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Proud of my dual heritage 🇳🇬🇵🇱. Here I am dressed in one of our 🇳🇬 traditional dresses at an end of year party in Perth a couple of weeks ago organised by Genesis, the Western Australian association of Nigerian doctors 🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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A son and his mother. Our roles might evolve & change but the love remains the same ❤️🙏🏾❤️
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My favourite airline when am in Nigeria. Captain Aniema Violet Enaharo is the first female Airline Captain from Akwa Ibom State. She is also the Fleet Captain for the CRJ900 series of
@ibomairlines
🇳🇬
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Don’t forget 2 take yr medication 💊
Name: Physical activity 🚶♀️
Dose: 20-60 minutes ⏰
Frequency: daily
Cost: £0 / €0 / $0
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So lucky to be a Dad to these two wonderful young adults Maitane & Imanol Akpan 🇳🇬🇪🇸🇵🇱🇬🇧❤️😊🙏🏾
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People are ever so kind. This lovely group of Nigerian medical doctors and their families organised a surprise birthday meal for me. Lovely things were said. Really touched. Thank you❤️😊❤️
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Bunbury in Western Australia my new home is beautiful. Enjoying a stroll as the sun sets🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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Yes we can...
The Importance of Ageing Research Dr Asan Akpan Consultant Geriatrician via
@YouTube
@NIHRCRN_nwcoast
@SarahMistryBGS
@TashMasud
@Burns61Jenny
@DaleMaskell
@LivHPartners
@livuniAgeing
@C4ARLancs
@activeageingUoC
@GeriSoc
@britgerontology
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I am content, feel healthy and find my work meaningful. My employer takes the wellbeing of its staff seriously and does a lot to take care of us. This includes providing several places in our hospital grounds for one to have a quiet place to relax / have a cuppa 🇦🇺❤️😊👍🏽
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Tomorrow travelling 2my home country Nigeria 🇳🇬 Apart from a brief visit in 2008 I have not been back since I left in will be a working holiday facilitating a workshop, teaching princ of geriatric medicine & reconnecting with family,friends & colleagues ❤️
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray” Rumi (1207 - 1273) ❤️😊🇦🇺👍🏽
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After careful consideration & consultation with my family & colleagues, I have ruled myself out of the race to be our next leader. Instead I will continue to serve my constituents as a community geriatrician…..
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OP with Alzheimer’s dementia & recurrent falls referred. My suggested intervention below as she could not remember she needed her walker. Follow up recently no further falls. I love my job❤️😊👍🏾
@GeriSoc
@LivHospitals
@Mersey_Care
@NHSCandM
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I cannot put into words the emotions going on inside me as I arrived in my home country Nigeria 🇳🇬. I did not appreciate how much I missed it. So good to be here ❤️🇳🇬😊👍🏾🙏🏾
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Ashanti Akpan joins Blues Women on loan! | Birmingham City Football Club
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“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life” Rumi (1207- 1273) ❤️🙏🏾😊🇦🇺👍🏽
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Today the last day in 2023 I went for a walk next to the Indian Ocean parallel to Ocean Drive in Bunbury. This ocean connects to others keeping us connected. Wishing all of us the very best for 2024 ❤️🇦🇺
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Ward round with Dr Mythili RMO (Resident medical officer) on the Sub acute rehabilitation unit (SARU), Bunbury Regional Hospital, Bunbury, Western Australia🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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Todays home visit involved helping the person referred for a review to fix the fence. Life as a community geriatrician 😊👍🏾
@GeriSoc
@LivHospitals
@Mersey_Care
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In search of the pot of goodies at the end of the rainbow 😊🇦🇺👍🏽
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Snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, then flying over it, exploring Port Douglas marina and relaxing with a few drinks were some of the activities we did today as part of our trip round🇦🇺❤️😊
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Good morning from the multicultural city of Liverpool where Africans have been living since the 1700s including my ancestors from southeast Nigeria🇳🇬😊👍🏾
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I love my job. Clinical, service development, teaching, mentoring, supervising, learning, research, making lots of new friends and a great outdoor lifestyle. Welcome to Western Australia 🇦🇺😊
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My first swimming lesson at the southwest sports centre in Bunbury. I was surprised at how well I performed🏊🏾♂️🏊🏾♂️🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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Appointed Honorary Associate Professor in d Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
@LivUni
Really pleased 🤓as affirmation of ongoing work in ageing research & clinical education/training
@GerisTpd
@NIHRCRN_nwcoast
@louiseckenny
@CleggPeter
@TashMasud
@runnermandoc
@mancunianmedic
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I cannot explain why I enjoy my job so much. Today I am on call (public holiday) and reviewed our patients on SARU resolving any issues that came up 🙏🏾❤️😊🇦🇺
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First day with my new work colleagues including Anita the ward clerk in charge of us & the Subacute Rehabilitation Unit (SARU). A honour and delight to be part of this wonderful team at Bunbury Regional Hospital, Bunbury, Western Australia
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The end of my first week working in Banbury, Western Australia. Heading out to Perth the capital for the weekend hanging out with old and new friends🚎🚶🏽🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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As parents we strive to do our best. But we are never sure if we have done our best. It’s wonderful to see our children grow into self assured and caring human beings. Beautiful time spent with my daughter Maitane ❤️😊👍🏾
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Home visits reviewing older adults with frailty & multiple chronic conditions. It has been a long & satisfying day. Life as a community geriatrician 🚶🏾♀️🚶🏾♀️🚂😊👍🏾
@GeriSoc
@LivHospitals
@Mersey_Care
@NHSCandM
@LivuniILCaMS
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Christmas Eve 2023 in Bunbury, Western Australia. In or outside work I have been welcomed with open arms. I look 4ward in d coming months & years 2 contributing my very best 2 🇦🇺 & sharing some of my knowledge / learning with my home country 🇳🇬 Wishing all of us d very best ❤️
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No one told me climbing to the top of the O2 Arena was in a Dad’s job description 😳❤️😊👍🏾
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Congratulations
@AshantiAkpan
well done. You have worked hard for this & your mum
@AkpanMags
Dad
#IkemesitAkpan
& brother
#AshleyAkpan
have been your greatest supporters. Well done to you all👏🏽❤️😊🇬🇧🇵🇱🇳🇬👍🏽
Ashanti Akpan has signed her first professional contract with the club! ✍️💙
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Spending time with Maitane and Sam at the Great Barrier Reef 🪸🇦🇺❤️😊👍🏽
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The tropical rainforest in Kuranda is the oldest continually surviving tropical rainforest on earth at 120 million years.Dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years & humans beings have been in existence for only 300,000 years 🇦🇺😊👍🏽
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After work I 🚶🏽from the bus station via the local supermarket Coles back to my apartment overlooking the bay where you can sometimes see dolphins 🇦🇺
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I am an academic community geriatrician in the northwest of England based within an interdisciplinary team providing clinical care to older people in all settings and my research interests are older people with frailty..👍🏾😊
#BIGGRollCall
#BIGGWeek22
@BlackInGeron
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Decided to take up swimming lessons and start jogging. Stay tuned for updates on how I get on🏊🏽♀️🏃🏾😊👍🏾
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On the 08 August 2023 I contributed to discussions on the wellbeing of older adults on the Nigerian Television Authority Good Morning Show
@NTAGMN
with Dr Emem Omokaro Director General
@nsccofficial
& other guests. Our interview starts at 36 minutes into
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Taking some time out before settling down into my new job 🇦🇺😊👍🏾
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Beautiful Monday morning in Bunbury. My chill out time before going in to work🇦🇺😊
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End of my 4th week at work doing what I love. Providing clinical care to older people within a multidisciplinary team supported by managers & resources 😊
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Congratulations to my nephew Ashley Akpan on getting his first professional football contract 👏🏾🇵🇱👏🏾🇳🇬👏🏾🇬🇧👍🏾
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I am a hope monger. I am not ignoring the challenges we face and it will not be easy to solve any of our problems poverty, education, jobs, sustainable energy, health & conflicts.
However anything worthwhile begins with hope ❤️🙏🏾😊🇳🇬🇵🇱🇬🇧🇦🇺👍🏽
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Geriatrician on duty this Friday 26 January 2024 that is a public holiday here in Australia. Completed a ward round on our subacute restorative unit with my two RMO colleagues and now available by 📞 for clinical advice rest of the day 😊🇦🇺
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On duty for geriatric medicine on ANZAC day. Brief journey board with our nurse coordinator, then a SARU ward round including reviewing new
#NOF
on the orthopaedic ward & reviewing all requested consults from other specialties 🇦🇺👍🏽😊
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The first thing my mum asks me each time I visit is ‘what do you want to eat’ My answer is irrelevant as she goes ahead anyway to prepare one of her signature dishes 😂😊❤️😊
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