Shantha is a Queensland based FACEM, currently at Logan Hospital Emergency Department.
Since medical school, she has been a champion of gender equity in medicine, particularly in addressing intersectional and structural bias in medicine.
She is a core member of the Network of Women in Emergency Medicine (NoWEM) and moderated and organised webinars on ‘Antiracism in Emergency Medicine’ and ‘Moral Injury in Emergency Medicine’, as well as being secretary of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM) Gender Equity Special Interest Group.
She holds several positions within ACEM, including on the Queensland Branch Council and Deputy Chair of the Advancing Women in Emergency (AWE) Network Executive, and sits on the Council of Advocacy, Policy and Partnership (CAPP), the Equity and Inclusion Committee and the Education Strategy and Engagement Committee.