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Male, FRACGP, MBBS, Clin Dip Palliative Medicine
Dr Scott is a specialist GP who enjoys working with kids and families, he is also one of our two Clinical Directors.
He has experience in children’s health, veterans health (DVA), men’s & women’s health, aged care and chronic disease, chronic pain/ fibromyalgia (non-opiate management) and palliative care.
He graduated from James Cook University and has been practicing in the Townsville region ever since, earning a Clinical Diploma in Palliative Medicine at the Townsville Hospital.
During his GP training, he worked at various practices in Townsville, Charters Towers, Ayr and Home Hill.
Reuben is not currently accepting new patients.
Female, MB BCh BAO BA Dip Obs MRCGP FRACGP
**Orna is not currently accepting new patients. If you have not previously seen Orna, please book with another GP.
Orna moved to Rockhampton from Ireland in 1996 where she worked at the Base Hospital for 18 months.
Orna spent 7 years working in different specialties at the Townsville Hospital before moving to the UK in 2003 for 2 years to complete her Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Returning to Townsville in 2005, she joined the team at Health & Wellbeing North Ward in 2007 and is our longest serving GP.
She is also one of our two Clinical Directors and takes the lead in all things clinical.
Male, MB BCH BAO DRCOG FRACGP
Dr Doris is not currently accepting new patients.
Female, FRACGP, MBBS
Speaks English and Hindi
Dr Meenal Barwal was born and raised in India where she completed her medical degree and worked for a few years before moving to Australia and obtaining her GP Fellowship.
Her special interests are mental health, including managing antenatal and postnatal depression, and depression in menopausal women, women’s and men’s health, and skin diseases.
She encourages proactive and preventative, patient-centred care among her patients including immunisation and chronic disease management and prevention.
Meenal is bilingual and is fluent in Hindi and English.
Male, MD, BAppSc(micro)
Speaks English
Female, MBBS, MPHTM
Speaks English
Josie is a GP registrar and Townsville local who graduated from James Cook University in 2016.
She has spent the last seven years working across Emergency Medicine and Paediatrics at the Townsville University Hospital.
In 2021 Josie completed a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Female, FRACGP, MBBS
Deirdre graduated in 2005 in South Africa and immigrated to Australia in 2007.
She spent the next few years working in emergency medicine in regional Western Australia before moving to Queensland to complete her GP training.
Deirdre enjoys all aspects of general practice but especially loves working with children and has her diploma in child health from the University of Sydney.
Female, FRACGP, MBBS, MPH
Dr Sarah attained her primary medical degree in Bangladesh and then worked at Bangladesh Civil Service Hospital for four years.
Sarah then completed Masters in Public Health and was engaged as a lecturer at Dhaka Medical College for two years.
In moving to Australia, she has worked in a rural hospital for a year and subsequently worked in Indigenous health for 7 years. During this period, Sarah worked in a wide range of rural and remote communities of far north Queensland.
Sarah welcomes new patients but has a strict policy of not prescribing opioids or benzodiazepines.
Female, FACRRM, MBBS, FRACGP
Vicki has extensive experience in Indigenous health and rural and remote medicine.
Vicki has completed her Fellowship for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and is also an accredited GP Registrar Supervisor with GMT (Generalist Medical Training).
Vicki is not currently accepting new patients.
