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Alexandra Wade wins 2023 Hepatitis NSW Cheryl Burman Award
Alexandra (Alex) Wade, the Clinical Nurse Consultant for the Mid North Coast Liver Clinics across the Northern NSW and Mid North Coast LHDs, is the recipient of Hepatitis NSW’s prestigious 2023 Cheryl Burman Award.
The Cheryl Burman Award acknowledges outstanding work or achievements by an individual or team in NSW within the viral hepatitis sector.
Alex was recognised for her substantial contribution to improving the quality of life of people living with viral hepatitis through her unwavering commitment to affected communities, exceptional healthcare delivery, and pioneering work in improving the wellbeing of marginalised and vulnerable people across both her LHDs.
With an impressive breadth of understanding and experience with all the varied ways in which both hepatitis B and C manifest in regional NSW, Alex spreads that knowledge as far as she can. Alex has worked extensively with many different communities, like farm workers on temporary visas living with hep B, people experiencing homelessness in Coffs Harbour, and alternative communities in northern NSW.
Always looking for ways to support and assist her clients, Alex has been an integral part of a pioneering effort on the Mid North Coast to use work development orders (WDOs) to reduce the debts of marginalised and vulnerable people at risk of, or affected by hep C. So far, through this innovative approach, Alex’s team has erased more than half a million dollars of debt from the community. This is a truly unbelievable achievement.
Alex has also been a huge advocate of involving people with lived experience in her outreach work and has been a long and steadfast supporter of Hepatitis NSW’s peer programs, involving them in outreach work for years.
In announcing Alex’s win, Hepatitis NSW President Dr Denise Jarratt said, “Alex is not just an incredibly talented nurse and a wonderfully committed hepatitis champion, but someone who has always nurtured and developed the peer workers lucky enough to work alongside her. By any measure, Alex is a very worthy recipient of this prestigious award.”
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