Queensland State Branch
State Branch Calendar Queensland 2023
Meetings are held via TEAMs videoconference @5pm
Please forward queries to the secretary at [email protected]
Tuesday 17th Jan 2023
Tuesday 4th April 2023 (AGM)
Tuesday 4th July 2023
Tuesday 3rd October 2023
AASTN Queensland Executive Bios

Henrietta Martin – Sunshine Coast
AASTN Queensland President
Henrietta is originally from Canada and has worked as an intensive care nurse in the USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Henrietta commenced working as a stomal therapist in 2010 and has just completed her Master of Nursing in Clinical Leadership with a focus on wounds and stomas. Henrietta is interested in everything to do with the science of wounds and stomas, and in particular, the breakdown of incisions and the mucocutaneous junction. She can’t wait to be able to travel home to Canada again.
(07) 5202 8714
Stomal Therapy/Wound Management Clinical Nurse Consultant
Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Birtinya, Sunshine Coast

Louise Walker – Brisbane
AASTN Queensland Vice President
Louise started nursing in 1987 as an enrolled nurse at the Concorde Repatriation Hospital in New South Wales. There she met Heather Hill (life member AASTN) who inspired her to become a stomal therapist. After completing her degree, Louise commenced practice as a stoma nurse in 2008, working in several Brisbane public and private hospitals. She has held many positions on the Queensland and National AASTN committees and counts the highlight of her career (so far) as visiting the Cleveland Clinic to work with a team of 25 stoma nurses. She is an avid bowel cancer fundraiser, having raised over $9000 for Bowel Cancer Australia.
(07) 3182 4563
Stomal Therapy/Wound Management Clinical Nurse Consultant
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital
Coopers Plains, Brisbane

Lorraine Annandale – Sunshine Coast
AASTN Queensland Treasurer
Lorraine is originally from South Africa and moved to Queensland in 2009. She commenced her career in wound management in 2004 and will always be thankful to the Brisbane Metro North community stomal therapy legends Pat Sinasac and Shirley Jones who introduced her to stomal therapy in 2012. She was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to also learn from Brenda Sando and Louise Walker in the private sector before joining the fabulous team at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Services in 2017. Lorraine took on the role of treasurer to give a little back to the Association built by the stomal therapy greats in the past with the vision for a bright future for the AASTN Queensland Branch.
(07) 5202 7896
Stomal Therapy/Wound Management Clinical Nurse
Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Birtinya, Sunshine Coast

Michelle Carr – Sunshine Coast
AASTN Queensland Secretary
AASTN Website Coordinator
AASTN Education + Professional Development Subcommittee Chairperson
Michelle is originally from the South Island of New Zealand. Michelle commenced practice as a stomal therapist at a bayside hospital in Brisbane in 1998 before joining the Sunshine Coast team in 2001. She was lucky enough to return to New Zealand in 2008 for a year to learn about community stomal therapy from the stoma nurses in Otago, giving her a greater understanding of the challenges faced by ostomates on discharge. Her interests include high output stomas and optimising health literacy to improve health outcomes.
(07) 5202 8715
Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Birtinya, Sunshine Coast