Tanja Bohl's Page

Profession

Physician

Title

Dr

Organization

Private practice assoc. with Gippsland School of Rural Health &Latrobe Regional Hospital

Educational Experience (College, Graduate Training, Residency, Fellowship)

Undergraduate MBBS (Monash University, Melbourne), 1980&81 Alfred hospital Melbourne, 1982 DipRACOG, Latrobe Hospital Moe (RACOG), 1983&4 Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1985 St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne (FACD)

Honors and Awards

Fred Bauer Award for presentation paper 'Lichen Planus of the female Anogenital region'F. Florance - Ewan Murray Will Grant, Overview of vulvar pruritus through the life cycleVulvar ulcers and erosions--a dermatologist's viewpoint.Vulvodynia and its differential diagnoses.Plasma cell balanitis and vulvitis (of Zoon). A study of 10 cases.(co author).The use of mupirocin before skin surgery.(co author)

Research, Professional, and Clinical Interests

Vulval Disease, Undergraduate and Patient education

Associations and Memberships

ACD, AAD, ISSVD, ECSVD, ANZVS, ISD, MWIA

Procedures performed

Biopsy, photherapy, minor surgical procedures

Interested in

Networking, Expanding Clinical Skills, Clinical updates, Conference Roundups

Hobbies and Interests

Shih Tzu breeding, quilting

More About Me

I have a long standing interest in vulval disease. I established the first vulval diseases clinic in Victoria with Sexual Health Physicians at the Skin and Cancer Foundation, we then developed a similar clinic at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and then the Royal Women's Hospital opened a 'vulva disorders' clinic thish I attended as dermatologist with Dr. Ross Pagano as gynaecologist until 2006. Multidisciplinary approach to disease and especially vulval disease is something I enjoy and think is vital in increasing our understanding and management problems affecting the female genital tract.
Whilst I am now in rural private practice I maintain an active practice in vulval disease and also in the vulval societies to which I belong. I have the opportunity to teach via the Gippsland School of Rural Health as I believe firmly in the passing on of knowledge and skills and this also provides me with a means to improve my skills. As a clinician I am concerned as to the dependency on technology that seems to have developed in our medical community with resultant loss of some fundamental clinical skills. I also believe there is a great need to educate women about their own health. I see lot of fear and misunderstanding contributing to sub-optimal therapy.
On a personal note I have several Shih Tzu dogs and have a breeding programme aimed at maintaining genetic diversity and preserving many features of the breed that are being lost in the focus of the show ring. I love to quilt and find this a pleasant way to relax and reuse old fabrics in a useful manner. I have a yet to be fulfilled passion for photography and whilst I thoroughly enjoy my work I find it can be isolating and leave little time for a personal life. I have come to realise that the internet offers a great opportunity to meet like minded professionals, particularly in relation to vulval disease although I am on the lookout for a well conformed , black shih tzu>G< I was promted to write to you having seen you are speaking at the EADV premeeting to the upcoming ISD meeting which I unfortunately cannot attend.