Dr Mya Cubitt

Dr Mya Cubitt is a champion of relational coordination in healthcare with clinical experience across multiple teams, in multiple stages, and at multiple geographical locations along the patient healthcare journey. She has held leadership and committee roles and driven projects to advance shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect in healthcare. Her primary clinician research area is geriatric trauma, where relational coordination at system and clinician levels is key to improving patient centred outcomes. 

Mya is a New Zealander, living in Australia with her South African husband and their three Australian children. She trained at Otago University, with a peripatetic clinical journey in Emergency Medicine training through NZ, NSW, QLD, WA and VIC, winning the Buchanan Prize as the highest scoring candidate for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) . She completed a fellowship year in Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at The Royal Children’s Hospital, and practices as an Emergency Physician at The Royal Melbourne Hospital - one of two adult major trauma units in the state. Mya has also worked as a consultant in the inpatient patient flow ward, Acute Medical Unit and now practices in the Hospital in the Home team.