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Jodie Cameron has worked across emergency, rural and general practice, in remote communities throughout Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and as Nurse Practitioner aboard Sea Shepherd's MV Steve Irwin. That range has built the assessment skills she now brings to complex, overlapping presentations. Her interest and education have centred on women's health which has been driven by the shortage of experienced practitioners and the limited availability of dedicated women's health care across Australia. Across her own practice and her family, she began noticing connective tissue, mast cell and autonomic conditions sitting alongside women's health concerns rather than standing apart from them.
Perimenopause and menopause bring fluctuating, then declining, hormone levels whose effects reach well beyond the reproductive cycle. This hormonal change is multifactorial and contributes to the development of chronic disease as women age — affecting cardiovascular, metabolic and bone health, among other systems. These symptoms are often dismissed as ordinary ageing or treated one at a time rather than recognised as part of a single hormonal transition. Jodie assesses where a patient sits within that transition, including hormone replacement therapy where appropriate, so women understand what is changing and can take an active role in the decisions that follow.
In some women, connective tissue laxity, mast cell activation and autonomic conditions such as POTS cluster together, each amplifying the others rather than presenting as separate problems. Care split across specialties tends to miss this, with each condition investigated and treated on its own. Jodie looks at how these systems interact rather than assessing them one at a time, and it's this overlap — more than any single diagnosis — that now shapes the referrals she's best placed to take on at biio. The aim is a clearer read on what is driving symptoms.