Dr Angela Dos Santos

Angela is a Gumbaynggirr and Kwiamble woman from the NSW mid north coast. She is Australia's first and only Aboriginal neurologist. She graduated medicine from the Western Sydney University in 2011. She completed physician and neurology training in Sydney in 2018, and then underwent further Stroke speciality training with a Fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2019. She is currently employed as a neurologist and stroke physician at the Royal Melbourne and Campbelltown Hospitals. She works on Australia’s first Mobile Stroke Unit (ambulance equipped with mobile CT) in Melbourne. She also is a stroke neurologist for the Victorian and Queensland Stroke Telehealth network. She does outreach neurology clinics in Alice Springs, Darwin and Moree. She is a Scientia Fellow with the University of New South Wales. She works as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow for the Australian Stroke Alliance and completed PhD at the University of Melbourne focussed on Stroke in First Nations people in 2024.