Dr Heather McNamee

MBChB MRCGP (UK) FRACGP DFFP

Born in Belfast – qualified from Edinburgh University in 1989. Completed GP training and Family Planning Diploma in 1996 and emigrated to Australia shortly afterwards. Established and managed Healthy Women, a private Women’s Health GP clinic in Brisbane from 2000-2005. Joined Cairns Sexual Health Service in 2005 and became an S100 HIV prescriber in 2007. For many years Dr McNamee was the GP at Youthlink, a support service for homeless and at risk youth. She maintains a special interest in the health of young people. Dr McNamee continues to work part time at Cairns Sexual Health Service and has an active role in sexual health education for healthcare providers and the general community. She established Cairns Doctors in 2013 to provide the people of Cairns with high quality, up to date sexual, reproductive and preventative healthcare.

Dr Nisha Manoheran

BMED Sc, MBBS, DRANZCOG and FRACGP

Dr Manoheran grew up in Penang, Malaysia. She completed a basic science degree (BMed Sc) in Kuala Lumpur.

Dr Manoheran moved to Australia for her medical degree and graduated from the University of Queensland in 2010.

Subsequently, Dr Manoheran worked primarily in Mackay where she underwent training for the DRANSCOG (Diploma of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) in 2012. She greatly enjoys working in the women’s health area and caring for patients from a variety of backgrounds.

Dr Manoheran also completed a certificate to become a Yoga Teacher, partly to remind herself about what is important in health and well-being. This helps to keep things in perspective.

Dr Manoheran gained a Fellowship in General Practice which allows her to help people with a variety of conditions, while still spending time on her interests in preventative medicine and women’s health.

Mrs Karen Warburton

RN (Dip HE) Masters of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) Cert Diabetes Primary Care

Karen was born in Malaysia and moved to England aged 18 to study nursing.

She graduated from the University of Wolverhampton in 1999 and worked for 7 years in a urology hospital ward.

She met Dr Warburton in 2002 and they married in 2006. Together they moved to Australia in 2008 (along with their 3 cats) and then later to Cairns in 2010.

She initially worked as a Chronic Disease Nurse in Cairns whilst studying a Master of Nursing at Flinders University in Adelaide.

In 2012 she graduated as a Nurse Practitioner and has worked in general practice alongside Dr Warburton since then.

As a nurse practitioner Karen can investigate, diagnose, treat and manage most conditions and works collaboratively and effectively with the medical practitioners in Cairns Doctors.

She has greatly increased her scope of practice (her skills, knowledge and abilities) but her passions and emphasis remain in chronic disease and diabetes.

When she isn’t working, Karen is passionate about her three fur babies (the cats) and enjoys travelling and eating out in Cairns’ best eateries.

Dr Amarjit Singh

MBChB, MRCGP, FRACGP

Cairns Doctors are pleased to welcome Dr Amarjit Singh (formerly at Omega Health Medical Centre). Dr Singh hopes to enhance and provide a wider range of medical services. He is a British graduate with over 35 years medical experience. He has worked in the UK , NZ and has been working in Australia for 11 years. After over 6 years at Omega Health Medical Centre, he has DECIDED to relocate and join our team at Cairns Doctors Barr St. His Areas of special interest include:

• Family Medicine and  usual GP Services for the local community
• Complicated/complex medical needs
• Palliative care
  Contraception including IUD insertion
• Sexual health prevention + Tx of Hep C etc
• Providing ongoing empathetic support built with mutual trust
• Addiction and Opiate Management registered opioid prescriber
• Indigenous Wellbeing with emphasis on illness prevention and sustained lifestyle change
• Medicinal Marijuana
• Allergy Management including  Desensitization
• Mental Health ‘fixing the imbalance’ with client centred multidisciplinary approach

Dr Kerryn Lewin

MBBS, FRACGP, DRACOG

With a passion for caring for people, Dr Lewin enjoys working as a GP where she is involved with people in all stages of their lives but is particularly interested in antenatal care and working with families. She has done post graduate studies in obstetrics and sexual health and is a qualified Mirena inserter, having been trained by Cairns Doctor’s own sexual health physician, Dr Kay Haig. Originally from Victoria, Dr Lewin brings international experience, having worked and studied in Canada as well as here in Australia. Having decided to settle in the tropics 15 years ago, Dr Lewin is excited about joining the team at Cairns Doctors. “The warm welcome I’ve received has been so rewarding. I feel like part of the family already and am looking forward to paying the care forward to patients in my care” she said. Special Interests include:

• General Practice
• Ante/Post Natal Care
• Women’s Health
• Long acting reversible Contraception including Mirena/IUD and Implanon

Dr Charlie Dixon

BSc (HONS), MBBS, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP, FRACGP

Dr Charlie studied to become a doctor at University College London, qualifying in 2005. She underwent her General Practice training in East London, managing patients with great cultural diversity.

In 2013 she started working for London’s Margaret Pyke (Contraception) Clinic and found this to be her passion. Upon migrating to Australia in 2017 she began learning new skills in Sexual Health at Cairns North Sexual Health Clinic and has since become an S100 prescriber for HIV medication.

Doctor Charlie practices and teaches Yoga and is a strong believer of the power of the mind and how important a ‘less is more’ approach can sometimes be when it comes to medical management.

Special Interests include:

• Sexual Health
• Women’s Health
• Long acting reversible Contraception including Mirena/IUD and Implanon

Sexual Health Physician

Doctor Kay Haig graduated in 1980 and came north to Cairns to The Cairns Base Hospital as an intern. She fell in love with the tropics and is still here. Doctor Haig worked at Family Planning Cairns for 26 years and Sexual Health for 15 years. She was invited to join the College of Sexual Health Physicians in 1997 because of her extensive experience with sexual and reproductive health. Doctor Haig feels passionate about all aspects of sexual health and believes we should all be able to enjoy the most intimate part of our lives.

Specialist Geriatrician & Stroke Physician

Dr Ramesh Durairaj completed his specialist Geriatrics/Stroke Medicine advanced training from Mersey Deanery, UK in 2005. He worked as clinical director of Aged care services/Stroke services in University Hospitals Aintree, Liverpool, UK for 10 years before moving to Cairns to continue his career.

Dr Ramesh Durairaj will be welcoming referrals for

Geriatric medicine [Bulk Billed]

• All patients aged 65 and over with geriatric syndromes like complex comorbidities, falls and cognitive impairment
• Domiciliary visitations for patients in aged care facility

Stroke medicine [Bulk Billed]

• Management of Low risk TIA with ABCD2 score less than 4 [>4 needs hospitalisation]
• Management of patients with post stroke medical complications
• Post stroke rehabilitation in outpatient setting

As a preference, all referrals to be sent to Cairns Doctors either electronically (we use Medical Objects) or via:

• email info@cairns-doctors.com.au
• by fax (07) 4242 5353
• or posted to PO Box 666, Earlville, Qld.  4870.  Please note posted referrals can take up to 10 days to receive and process

Nursing Home Visits

Visits to an Aged Care or Assisted Living facility can also be arranged, please send referral details through including the name of the facility where Dr Ramesh needs to visit.

ONLINE BOOKINGS NOT AVAILABLE.  REFERRAL FROM YOUR GP REQUIRED FOR BULK BILLING APPOINTMENT.

Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Dr Amir Seif graduated in 1986 and had his specialist training in South Thames London Deanery rotating between King’s College hospital and other affiliated teaching hospitals in the Deanery.

He practiced as consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in South London Healthcare NHS Trust from 2003 and until he moved to Australia in 2012.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London (FRCOG) and also a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (FRANZCOG).

Dr Seif has special interest in colposcopy and cervical cancer screening in addition to general surgical obstetrics and gynaecology.

Dr Amir Seif will be welcoming referrals for:

Obstetric

Mixed Billing – Under 18’s, ATSI, Centrelink Card Holders, DVA

• General Obstetric Consults
  • Pregnancy management – (limited clinics from 18/08/2018)

Gynaecology

Mixed Billing – Under 18’s, ATSI, Centrelink Card Holder, DVA

• General Gynaecology clinics including cervical cancer screening
  • Colposcopy (from November 2018)

Birthing

• Birthing Management (limited clinics from 18/08/2018) including caesarean sections

Surgery

Private fees with Anaesthetist and Theatre costs additional

• Gynaecological surgeries including different types of hysterectomies, endometrial ablation, pelvic floor repair, labial reduction surgery for cosmetic reasons, laparoscopic sterilization.etc. Please call practice for more details if required
• Surgical Termination of Pregnancy (up to 16 weeks) click here

As a preference, all referrals to be sent to Cairns Doctors either electronically (we use Medical Objects) or via:

• email info@cairns-doctors.com.au
• by fax (07) 4242 5353
• or posted to PO Box 666, Earlville, Qld.  4870.  Please note posted referrals can take up to 10 days to receive and process

ONLINE BOOKINGS NOT AVAILABLE.  REFERRAL FROM YOUR GP REQUIRED FOR MEDICARE REBATE OR BULK BILLED APPOINTMENT.

Consultant Paediatrician.

Dr Arno Ebner originally trained as a Paediatric nurse at the Rudolf Virchow University Children’s Hospital in Berlin/Germany. After a short excursion into Geophysics at the Technical University of Berlin, he went on to study medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz/Germany and Albert Ludwig’s University in Freiburg/Germany.

He specialised in Paediatrics at the University Children’s Hospital in Greifswald/Germany with part of his training at the Tulane Hospital for Children in New Orleans/USA and at McMaster University in Hamilton/Canada.

He has worked in child nutrition and immunology and neonatology research in Germany and for the German Doctors for Developing Countries in Manila/Philippines and Chittagong/Bangladesh.

He graduated as a specialist consultant in Germany and New Zealand and became a Fellow of the RACP in 2012. From 2008-2015 he worked as a Paediatrician and senior lecturer in Timaru and Wellington / New Zealand in General Paediatrics and Paediatric Haematology and Oncology before moving to rural Australia in Mount Gambier and Traralgon 2015-2018.

His professional interests include Paediatric haematology and oncology, palliative care, rheumatology, chronic pain, behavioural, allergy, asthma, infectious disease and travel health medicine.

Please note that referrals will be accepted for one-year, indefinite referrals will not be accepted.

Dr Arno’s clinic will be offering Bulk billing to Pension & Concession Card Holders, DVA Families, and all Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander patients as part of the commitment to closing the gap.  Health Care Card holders will be offered a reduced fee.  A full list of fees is available from our Medical Reception team.

As a preference, all referrals to be sent to Cairns Doctors electronically (we use Medical Objects) or via:

• email info@cairns-doctors.com.au
• by fax (07) 4242 5353
• or posted to PO Box 666, Earlville, Qld.  4870.

Please note posted referrals can take up to 10 days to receive and process

ONLINE BOOKINGS NOT AVAILABLE.  REFERRAL FROM YOUR GP REQUIRED FOR MEDICARE REBATE OR BULK BILLED APPOINTMENT.

Anneke Bayer

PSYCHOLOGIST

BN, GradCertMidwifery

BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical)

Anneke grew up in The Netherlands and completed a Bachelor of Nursing (General and Mental Health) in 1989. She initially worked as a general and mental health nurse but continued full-time as a mental health nurse in 1990.

Prior to immigrating to Australia in 1993 she worked as a clinical mental health nurse in a forensic facility supervising rehabilitative care as well as caring for clients with complex psychiatric problems.

Once in Australia, she continued her career within the Queensland Health sector as a registered nurse. In 1999, Anneke became a midwife and has been working in Cairns Hospital as a registered midwife since then.

As well as being a midwife, Anneke studied psychology and graduated as a provisional psychologist in 2014 and continued postgraduate study. She worked as an intern psychologist in the Health Centre James Cook University (Townsville), Cairns Hospital and Cairns Sexual Health Services. She graduated Master of Psychology (Clinical) in 2017.

Anneke has a special interest in:

• Women’s health (all aspects around pregnancy)
• Sexual health
• Health psychology

ONLINE BOOKINGS NOT AVAILABLE.  REFERRAL AND A MENTAL HEALTH CARE PLAN FROM YOUR GP REQUIRED FOR MEDICARE REBATES

Lolita Hunter

Aboriginal Health Practitioner

Diploma Indigenous Health

Lolita has worked in the health industry for some 20 years before joining Cairns Doctors in 2017.