Associate Professor Katrina Anderson
What I can offer as a Mentor
Associate Professor Katrina Anderson is an experienced General Practitioner who teaches across The Australian National University Medical School curriculum. She designed a vertically integrated curriculum that focuses specifically on interpersonal skills, self-care and reflective practices. Associate Professor Anderson’s teaching concurrently embraces medicine’s basis in science, and the human characteristics of emotion, compassion and empathy. The holistic merging of these two themes ensures that students understand the importance of the doctor-patient relationship in the healing process. Associate Professor Anderson’s outstanding contribution to teaching has been recognised through several Australian National University awards for teaching excellence and her teaching innovations have received funding support in excess of $1 million from various external bodies.