The TOP 10 BEST Doctors—specialists in Yaven Creek NSW

Welcome to Gundagai Medical Centre, where your health and well-being are our top priorities. We are a leading healthcare provider located in the heart of Gundagai, dedicated to serving the local community and surrounding areas with comprehensive medical services and compassionate care.

Blamey Street Surgery was established in Turvey Park, Wagga Wagga in the early 1960s and has provided a broad based family practice with Wagga doctors and GPs who specialise in obstetrics and other services. The team of doctors and GPs at Blamey Street Surgery are highly experienced and committed to the provision of quality family healthcare. Each member is able to provide you with current information and to discuss your appointments and general requirements.

Our mission is to provide quality, compassionate health care to the most vulnerable, including those reaching the end of their life.

Peter Street Medical Centre The general practitioners in the Centre specialize in a number of fields including skin cancer, women’s health, respiratory disease, adolescent health, prenatal care & pregnancy management, preventative medicine, paediatrics & family planning, anesthetics, men’s health, diabetes, mental health, and pre-employment medicals.

RFM is a relatively newly established practice in Wagga with excellent, local, committed General Practitioners. At RFM, we embrace a holistic philosophy of "cradle to grave" General Practice care, and our doctors and staff are passionate about all of your health care needs in the years in between. We have dedicated, professional clinicians, nurses and administration staff who care about the service that you receive. We work as a team to ensure that you receive the very best of healthcare at all times. We are committed to being a training facility and are passionate about training doctors for our future. We have a Registrar in practice with us, and often have medical students too. We firmly believe that this is essential to providing sustainable health care for you for the future and for future generations.

St George Family Medical Centre Wagga Wagga is a modern, and fully equipped Doctors Surgery staffed by fully qualified, vocationally registered General Practitioners. We are privileged to gain a unique insight into the inspiring achievements taking place within the health care environment. We are proud to announce that our practice is a teaching practice and regularly host registrars and medical students.

Trinity Medical Centre came to fruition on the 9th of May 2011, when we saw the need for more doctors due to Wagga’s growing population. Our doctors are passionate about rural health and aim to ease the burden rural locals face to attain quality healthcare, such as; long waiting lists and needing to travel to Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra for their treatment. As a full accredited practice (accredited by Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited), you can expect clean and sterile equipment, the safest security measures to protect your medical records, and you can rest assured knowing that we meet the standards of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). We are a family practice, catering for the needs of everyone. We offer general check ups, vaccinations, chronic disease management, skin checks and more. To reduce travel costs for our patients, we also have a pathology collection centre on site, as well as a dietician on our team. Our facilities are child friendly (with a special play corner and a wall mounted baby changing table in the toilets) and have disability access (parking ramp and disabled toilets).

Dr Azab is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Dr Azab is interested in Women’s Health and Geriatrics

Dr Howard provides a comprehensive range of orthopaedic services to the Riverina including surgery for the shoulder, knee and hip. Dr Howard is the only regional member of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australasia in New South Wales providing a full range of arthroscopic and open procedures for the shoulder for degenerative and sports-related conditions.

Prof Carroll is a St Vincent’s trained cardiologist with over twenty eight years experience as a consultant physician and cardiologist. He has expertise in the sub-specialties of general and interventional cardiology; and complex internal medicine. He is recognised as a leader in regional medical service delivery and is the principal of Riverina Cardiology, and a co-principal of Cardiology at the Mater in Sydney. He has been director of Cardiac Services at the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory at Calvary Hospital, Wagga Wagga, for 20 years. Prof Carroll has also enjoyed a long-running involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and holds conjoint professorial appointments with the University of New South Wales and the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is a longstanding member of the National Examination Panel of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He has a longstanding interest in the expansion of specialist services in regional Australia. Prof Carroll was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2005 for “Service to medicine as a cardiologist and as a general physician, particularly through the provision of health services to regional and rural areas, and to medical education".

After doing his general surgical training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, he spent another year there as the Senior Registrar in Colorectal Surgery. He maintains a close working relationship with RPAH Colorectal Unit in management of more complex cases. He then worked for almost 2 years as a rural surgical locum in places as varied as Cairns, Orange, Wollongong and Wagga Wagga, first coming to Wagga Wagga as a locum in 1992. He commenced full time work in Wagga Wagga in 1994 and at around that time, was the only member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand working in rural New South Wales. His surgical interests are in the major aspects of colorectal surgery – colorectal malignancy (bowel cancer in all its forms), inflammatory bowel disease and colonoscopy – as well as the general surgical components of abdominal surgery, in particular, hernia repair and abdominal wall surgery. Away from purely clinical interests, Henry has always had an interest in being involved in medical politics to promote rural medical services. He was the Federal AMA Councillor representing the craft group of Surgeons for 6 years before being the NSW AMA Councillor representing Southern NSW for almost 10 years. Mainly for his advocacy for rural issues, he was admitted to the AMA Roll of Fellows in 2012. Henry has been married to Helen for over 25 years and they have 2 sons attending university in Sydney. Helen and Henry were very involved in the equestrian sport of eventing for most of their first decade or so in Wagga, managing to get 2 horses in to Olympic squads, but not quite in to the team. Both are also keen rugby followers, with Henry in his 15th season of refereeing rugby locally…when the body holds up!