The Good Bowel Habit

Dr Nagel graduated in medicine at Melbourne University in 1977 and completed her specialist physician qualifications in 1984.
She spent 5 years in post-graduate study in England, the first two in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in a general Gastroenterology Unit. The following three years were spent researching liver failure at the King’s College Liver Unit, London. Robyn has worked with Queensland Health at the Royal Brisbane Hospital Gastroenterology Unit in 1990 and Toowoomba Base Hospital from 1992-2002 and has been engaged in private practice in Toowoomba since 1992.

She is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Gastroenterology Society of Australia (GESA) and the Continence Foundation of Australia. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and has represented the Downs Region on the Queensland College of Physicians Committee, the Queensland AMA and the educational committee of GESA.

Her areas of special interest include Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Celiac Disease, Pillcam, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Incontinence. Dr Nagel is accredited with the Gastroenterology Society of Australia for the following procedures . Upper and lower endoscopy (1988) . ERCP (1997) . Pillcam (2003)

Mrs. Shirley Owen Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association. Mrs Shirley Owen graduated in Physiotherapy from the University of Queensland and obtained postgraduate experience in Australia, England and Denmark.

 In 1972 she joined a private practice at St. Vincent's Hospital Toowoomba and became responsible for the Obstetric and Gynaecological patients in that practice. When Pauline Chiarelli introduced Australian physiotherapists to the physiotherapy management of incontinence in women, Shirley visited her and became inspired to set up her own women's health practice, "The Toowoomba Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Clinic" in 1982.

She was a founding member of the Continence Foundation in Australia in 1989 and maintains close links with this organisation. She has now retired from practice but still retains membership of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and the Continence Foundation of Australia and avidly follows the latest research in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction.