Resy van Beek

Resy van Beek

Resy has been working as intensive care specialist in the Royal Darwin Hospital on Larrakia Country for almost 10 years. Resy was born in The Netherlands, she she studied medicine and completed specialist degrees in international and intensive care medicine in Belgium and arrived on the lands of the Kaurna people in 2010. Resy is a passionate medical educator, although she sees herself more as a facilitator than a teacher. She has had the opportunity to travel around the Top End of Australia (and beyond) to join course faculties and, in collaboration with regional hospitals and clinics, developed and delivered workshops to suit the needs of multidisciplinary group of participants. Resy is a member of AUSMAT and has had the privilege to be part of a humanitarian aid mission in Samoa. She had further educational and leadership opportunities with the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre. What she values most in this role, as well as in her day-to-day intensive care practice, is working with and learning from people from a variety of professional and cultural backgrounds. Resy is a supervisor of training of the College of Intensive Care Medicine and thoroughly enjoys supporting and observing the growth of doctors-in-training. Resy is also a part 2 examiner for CICM. In her spare time, Resy enjoys cooking and baking with a strong preference for desserts containing chocolate. She can be seen on Darwin stages regularly as a singing member of the Darwin Chorale. She enjoys exploring Australia’s backyard on multi-day bushwalks. There are many more countries on the continent (and Aotearoa New Zealand) that she hasn’t visited yet so you might see her out and about in the region where you live.