Dr Cindy Pan is a medical practitioner, best-selling author and media personality. She has worked in general practice as well as sexual health and women’s medicine and she appears on television, lectures, speaks and writes about health, lifestyle and relationship issues. She is based in Sydney and has extensive experience and interest in a wide range of areas including preventive health, stress management, relationships, family issues, parenting, babies and kids, self-esteem, body image issues, motivation and sexual issues.

She is the author of ‘Pandora’s Box – lifting the lid on life’s little nasties’ (HarperCollins), a humorous book about health, relationships, sex and drugs, as well as ‘Playing Hard to Get’ (HarperCollins), a light-hearted look at courting and dating in the 21st century.  Her new book ‘Headstarts-100 tips for raising clever, confident, creative kids’ was written in collaboration with Vanessa Woods.

She has written for newspapers and magazines in Australia and Asia, including a weekly health column in ‘Body and Soul’ for Sunday papers all over Australia and a regular column on relationships and sexual health in ‘Cleo’ magazine in Asia, as well as appearing on many television shows including ‘The Morning Show’, ‘Q and A’,  and many more. 

Cindy is an Ambassador for Plan International Australia and a founding coalition member for the ‘Because I am a Girl Coalition for Investment in Girls’, joining Cherie Blair, Hilary Clinton, Australian Governor General, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, Nelson Mandela’s wife in raising awareness about the plight of girls in developing countries and the need to break the inter-generational poverty cycle and oppose exploitation of young women.

Cindy is also proud to be an Australia Day Ambassador.  She is a Patron for the Bonnie Babes Foundation, an Ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Northcott Disability Services, Breast Cancer Network Australia and Heartkids Australia and she is an Ambassador mentor for Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2010 Cindy was appointed as Medical Ambassador for the National Women’s Research Register, Register 4, an initiative of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Cindy is honoured to be a Butterfly Ambassador for the Life Changing Experiences Foundation. an Ambassador and spokesperson for Make-A-Wish Foundation Australia and The Salvation Army.  In 2011 Cindy was honoured to be asked to join the Diversity Board at Allens Arthur Robinson, and chosen as Ambassador for the Australian Red Cross Blood Bank.