Dr Talat Uppal is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist who works at Macquarie, Northern Beaches and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospitals as a Visiting Medical Officer. She has additional
training using ultrasound in gynaecology.
She is the Director of Women’s Health Road (a RACGP-accredited practice). She has created an innovative, integrated multidisciplinary model with a strong patient-centred approach to women’s health care.
Her niche interest is managing women with abnormal menstrual bleeding (AUB), and she has founded Australia’s first AUB management Hub.
She has also organised a co-located charity with a ‘Bleed Better’ initiative and is advocating for an International Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Day to raise awareness of HMB, which affects 25% of women of reproductive age.
She is a Clinical Senior lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Macquarie University. Her previous decade-long role was at Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals as a Senior Obstetrics Staff Specialist and Clinical Director of Women’s Children’s and Family Health.
She is a Fellow of the Australian Association for Quality in Health Care and the Australasian College of Health Service Management. She is a clinical educator passionate about supporting General Practitioners’ role’ She is one of the RANZCOG media spokespersons and is fluent in 3 languages.