'Laying bare the pain down there'
A book sharing lived experience to support
1 in 7* Australian girls and women +
to navigate and live well with
endometriosis
and chronic inflammatory conditions.
ADVOCATE. INFLUENCE. EMPOWER.
Maree Davenport
Former Member of Parliament in Victoria
Master of Leadership
(Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) (Deakin)
GCertLdshp (Deakin) FacCertComn (Monash)
BPRE (RMIT)
CertGov&RiskMgt (GIA)
G&MAICD
NMAS-accredited Mediator ​
Maree Davenport was Chief Executive Officer of Endometriosis Australia from March 2023 for a year, during which time she elevated media coverage and government action, resulting in successful awareness campaigns leading to Federal Government funding and subsidies through Medicare.
She previously served as Chair and on the Board, and served on the Federal Department of Health Endometriosis Expert Advisory Group. She is currently on the organising committee for the World Congress on Endometriosis (hosted by Sydney in 2025) and Chair of the Patient Liaison Committee. ​
Maree was the youngest woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria (aged 28), the first to have a baby while serving and was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Housing, Community Services and Aged Care, Member & Deputy Chair of the Joint All-Party Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, Chair of the Redundant Legislation and Regulation Review SARC Committees and other senior policy roles.​
A Member of Chief Executive Women and accredited Mediator (NMAS), she holds a Master of Leadership specialising in gender equality, diversity and inclusion, along with tertiary qualifications in property, communications, risk (GIA) and governance (AICD).​
Maree is an inaugural Foundation member at Monash Children’s Hospital, a Board Member of Dandelion Wishes Foundation, and previously President of WavLink disability service for 7 years.
She is an Ambassador for Carlton Football Club, appointed 2013, an Ambassador for the Housing Industry Association (HIA) Building Women; and is a Member of Chief Executive Women.​
Maree is a Mum of 3 and Nanree to 3 grandchildren. She has shared the life defining-challenges of endometriosis and adenomyosis through her daughter, who developed symptoms at the age of eight. The challenges when symptomatic affect all facets of her life.
Brianna is committed to helping other 'endowarriors' and became a nurse, working through Covid-19 in Monash Health's emergency department. Brianna understands the challenges with fertility and pregnancy risk, and is now a fertility nurse. She and husband Daniel, a paramedic, welcomed son Oliver, in August 2022.​
Maree's niece Alicia was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2023, and after undergoing treatment, welcomed daughter Margot with husband Nick, in May 2024.
Jane Fletcher
Health Psychologist MAPSBA., Grad.Dip.Appl.Psych.
Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher
School of Psychology and Psychiatry,
Monash University
Jane Fletcher is a health psychologist with over 30 years’ experience working with individuals with chronic diseases and cancer.
Jane had a double lung transport aged 25 in 1993, after developing Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans. She was the 7th person to have the procedure in Victoria, Australia, and among the longest surviving recipients of a donor transplant.
Having established Melbourne Psycho-oncology Service in Melbourne in 2008, Jane practices at Cabrini Health's Malvern and Brighton Hospitals, and at Melbourne Integrative Oncology Group in Bentleigh.
Jane continues to offer evidence based intervention to individuals, couples and families from medical team pathways, symptom management, integrative health, and psycho-sexual issues associated with endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS and pelvic pain.
She has extensive experience using cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, a range of existential approaches and mindfulness based interventions.
She is qualified in medical hypnosis and uses this for the treatment of cancer related sleep disorder, phobic and conditioned responses. She has a special interest in sexuality and is experienced in a range of specific interventions.
In addition to Endometriosis, Jane's special interests include breast, gynaecological, prostate, bowel, lung and haematological cancers.
Jane is passionate about offering care to those diagnosed with less common cancers. She also works with those who have tested gene positive for cancer who may require prophylactic surgical intervention.
Jane speaks widely, both locally and internationally, to peers and those living with a cancer diagnosis and holds adjunct appointments with Monash University and the Szalmuk Family Psycho-oncology Unit.
Friends for over 4 decades, we have shared every joy and challenge.
We are so grateful to work together to empower others through
Endo Encompass.
We are supporting EndoZone through book purchases.
Rights Holder
Endo Encompass (2024)
Contributors
Maree Davenport and Jane Fletcher
endoencompass@gmail.com
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*1 in 7 diagnosed by their 50th birthday in Australia (AIHW)
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+ Born with a uterus, Assigned or Presumed Female at Birth.
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