Dr Gundi Muller-Grotjan
Principal GP/Owner - Books Currently Closed
Dr Gundi Muller-Grotjan is a graduate of the University of Aachen, Germany and arrived to Narooma in January 2007. She holds a Diploma in Obstetrics from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (DRANZCOG) as well as a Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practice (FRACGP). Her interests and specialties include women's health and obstetrics, paediatrics and minor surgery. Dr Muller-Grotian has worked in South Africa, the United Kingdom and rural NSW.
Dr John Brown
General Practitioner - Books Currently Closed
Dr John Brown has been in family & general practice for 40 years. This has included time in Goroka in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and 23 years in Mudgee involving hospital practice including obstetrics, anaesthetics & emergency medicine. He has been in general practice in Narooma since 2002. His interests include skin cancer, diabetes and aged care; however he is most interested in whole of life care.
Dr Paul Barnett
General Practitioner - Books Currently Closed
Dr Paul Barnett previously worked at Royal Hobart Hospital, gaining experience in General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Rehabilitation Medicine and Drug and Alcohol Medicine. Dr Barnett and his partner are enjoying living in Narooma and have no immediate plans to move.
Dr Joseph Joseph
GP Registrar
Nurses
Chrissi Moody
Practice Nurse
Chrissi began her nursing role in a busy Canberra practice. She has worked in General Practice in both the city and rural areas, Aboriginal Health in both urban and remote Central Australia and some years as the Practice Nurse Support Project Officer at the ACT Division of General Practice.
Chrissi is a member of the Lighthouse Surgery and Bermagui Medical Centre where she provides lifestyle education, chronic disease management including cardiovascular, diabetes, asthma and COPD care, aged care, women's health, men's health, immunisations, wound management, mental health, health promotion, Aboriginal health and much more. Chrissi constantly maintains a standard of continued education in all fields of nursing to offer endless high standard of care to our community.
Bev Wright
Nurse
Bev joined the Lighthouse Surgery in 2016 after completing her degree with The University of Wollongong. She was prompted to study after several years of working at a local nursing home. Her interests outside of work are breeding fish and playing with her grandchildren.
Janelle Whiting
Practice Nurse
Janelle has lived in Narooma since 1988 and went to primary and high school locally. Janelle completed a Bachelor of Nursing through the University of South Australia. Janelle has been working for Lighthouse Surgery as a Practice Nurse since 2008 and Bermagui Medical Centre since it opened in 2011. She is a part of the management team for both practices and enjoys striving to continually improve the care given to the Narooma and Bermagui communities. Her special interests include preventative and chronic disease care, as well as assisting the training of GP registrars. Janelle is also an authorised nurse immuniser and women's screening nurse.
Sally Ritchie
Practice Nurse, Credentialled Diabetes Educator
Sally has been a Practice Nurse working in Narooma since 1987. She completed her general training at St Vincent's in Melbourne, where she also completed a cardio-thoracic course. Sally moved to the Mercy Maternity to complete her midwifery training and then to St George Hospital in Sydney to complete her Accident and Emergency training. Sally moved to Narooma in 1986 with her husband and children. In 2012 she became a Credentialled Diabetes Educator. Sally continues her ongoing education in all fields related to general practice and holds a wide variety of certificates.
Allied Health
Southern IML Pathology
Pathology Collection Service
Open Monday - Friday 8:30am - 1pm
This service works on a non appointment system, you arrive, take a number and will be seen in turn. This service is available to our patients and other patients who have pathology forms provided by other doctors.
Richelle Jackson
Podiatrist - Visits once a fortnight
Dr Tom Ward
Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon - Visiting once a month
Specialising in lower limb joint replacement
Audika
Visits The Lighthouse Surgery
Audio Clinic has made a difference to the lives of Australians with hearing difficulties by providing the highest standard of service. Audika specialises in personalised hearing care to identify and ensure all patients get the right solution for their particular needs. Please phone 02 6495 4233 to make an appointment to see Audika
Dr Robin Smart
Urologist - Visiting The Lighthouse Surgery twice a month
MBChb (Otago) FRACS FRCS(Eng) FRCSEd FNZMA Member of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Smart specialises in urological consultations, urological investigations such as flexible cystoscopy, TRUS prostate biopsies, urodynamics, and appropriate day case surgery including minor scrotal surgery and a range of cystoscopic procedures. Please phone reception to make an appointment to see Dr Smart.
Dr Fatma Lowden
Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist - Visiting every second Friday
Connect Hearing
Visits The Lighthouse Surgery
Connect Hearing ensures the very best treatment and care for people dealing with hearing problems by focusing on preventing hearing loss or restoring hearing abilities. Connect Hearing provides hearing testing & assessments, industrial noise assessments, hearing aids, listening devices, ear protection, fitting and repairing hearing aids. Please phone 02 4472 2077 to make an appointment to see Connect Hearing.
Registrar
Registrars are fully qualified doctors who have started a training pathway to become General Practitioners. They enroll in a training program that runs for three 6-month terms and in this time, they are required to work in at least two different rural areas.
Here at The Lighthouse Surgery we choose to employ registrars as we are committed to training new GP’s for the future. We hope that spending time in rural areas, will help them to see how rewarding being a rural GP can be and choose to stay rural where doctors are in short supply. We have been very fortunate to have some of our registrars stay on after their training has finished and become permanent with us.
Medical Student
The Lighthouse Surgery is committed to the teaching of the coming generation of medical practitioners and as such welcomes medical students from several universities for placements throughout each year. We have a particular commitment to ANU in Canberra, but also have had visits from students studying at UNE, JCU and Monash to name a few.
Our goal is to show the medical students how rewarding GP practice can be with the hope that someday they will return as GP’s to practice in rural areas where they are so badly needed.
Admin
Jane Taylor – Practice Manger
Sharon Young – Receptionist
Amey Middlemiss – Receptionist
Lizzie Simpson – Receptionist
Allison Aitken – Receptionist
Katrina Blyth – Receptionist
Helen Rose – Receptionist
Marion Bate – Receptionist