Meet Our Team

Dr Sol Adibson
Dr Sol Adibson MD, FRACGP, DoD (SCCA), DSCMS (SCCA)

Sol is a passionate medical educator who started his medical career in Australia in 2006. He spent a good five years working in the public health sector as a hospital medical officer and registrar, gaining valuable experience in Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, General Medicine, Specialty Medicine, and Urology. In 2012, Sol decided to dive into rural general practice, and he's been loving the variety of patients and cases he gets to see in this incredibly rewarding field of medicine.

Dr Simon Wilding
Dr Simon Wilding MBBS, FRACGP

Dr Wilding is an experienced examiner for the RACGP who graduated from Monash University in 1996. He has worked in many fields of medicine and practiced around Australia, including South Gippsland, Darwin and Northern Territory. He is currently also a tutor at Melbourne University.

Dr Melissa Ardley
Dr Melissa Ardley MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG

Dr Ardley is a keen medical educator who graduated from The University of Sydney in 2009. She had undertaken an intership at Western Hospital in Melbourne before being accepted into the Royal Children's Hospital training program as a JRMO, SRMO and Paediatric registrar before deciding on a move to general practice. A detour through Obstetrics/Gynaecology at Monash Health restulted in the DRANZCOG. Her areas of interest include paediatrics, women's health, antenatal care and family planning.

Dr Joanne Mountford
Dr Joanne Mountford MBBS, FRACGP

Dr Mountford graduated from the University of Sydney in 2005 and completed her hospital training at The Canberra Hospital. She completed her general practice training in 2010, and has been a GP supervisor for many years. She is also currently the Clinical Services Manager/Clinician at Sexual Health Victoria.

Dr Wendy Pakes
Dr Wendy Pakes B.Sc, B. Med. Sci (Hons), MB.BS (Hons), FRACGP

Dr Pakes is a passionate medical educator and a RACGP examiner. She graduated from Monash University and after several years in hospitals, commenced general practice and completed her FRACGP in 1992. She has worked in a variety of Melbourne general practices and is currently working as a tutor at Melbourne University and a Liaison Physician with VCS, while continuing in general practice. She has special interest in Women's health, travel medicine and sexual health.

Dr Melissa Hynes
Dr Melissa Hynes MBBS

Clinical Examiner

Dr Snya Chadha
Dr Snya Chadha MBBS, MS(ENT), FRACGP

Dr Chadha is a keen medical educator and an OSCE examiner for RACGP. She completed her MBBS from India in 1997 followed by a Masters degree in ENT and continues her interests in academics by being part of part of the expert team at GP Academy. Dr Chadha's area of interest in research is allergic rhinitis, asthma, snoring, sleep apnoea, hearing loss and tinnitus.

Dr Anna Proietto
Dr Anna Proietto B. Med. Sci, B.Sc (Hons), PhD, MBBS (Hons), FRACGP

Dr Proietto is a passionate medical educator at GP Academy. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 2007 in Immunology and a Post Doctoral fellowship in Immunology concurrent with medical school. After completing medical school in 2013, she worked in a number of metropolitan and rural hospitals in Melbourne before embarking on her GP training. She practices part-time as a GP in outer Melbourne and has special interests in obesity, child and adolescent health, women’s health and chronic disease management.

Dr Kimberley Yew
Dr Kimberley Yew MBBS (Hons), FRACGP, JCCA

Dr Yew is currently a clinical skills tutor and OSCE examiner at Monash University and has mentored undergraduate medical students from Monash Univsersity and University of Tasmania. After graduating from Monash University with first class honours in 2011, she worked at Monash Health as a specialty resident for several years before embarking on general practice training. Kimberley is fellowed with the RACGP and is also a qualified GP anaesthetist having obtained her JCCA credentials.

Dr Rowan Purtell
Dr Rowan Purtell BBS, MBBS, DCH, FRACGP

Dr Purtell is passionate about all things GP and since RACGP fellowship, he has become a passionate medical educator. He has been a GP working in a small but busy tourist town since 2016 when he commenced his registrar training at the current practice. In the winter months, Rowan works at the Mt Hotham Ski fields practicing truly remote medicine in a challenging environment.

Dr Melissa Wong
Dr Melissa Wong MBBS (Hons), FRACGP

After graduating from Monash University in 2013, Dr Wong worked at Monash Health for several years as an emergency registrar before deciding to specialise in general practice. During her hospital registrar years, she was able to hone her broad range of medical interests in child and women’s health, mental health, minor surgical procedures and medical education through the supervision of interns and residents. She has also completed the Sydney Child Health Program and is further developing her skills in medical education.

Dr Marjia Johns
Dr Marjia Johns MBBS, DCH

Dr Johns graduated from Western Sydney University in 2015 as a Dean's Merit List Recipient. She worked at Concord Hospital and Broken Hill Base Hospital as a resident, developing experience and honing her interests in Paediatrics, Dermatology and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and undertook the Diploma of Child Health in 2017. Marjia is passionate about ongoing medical education, and since completing her fellowship exams, has embarked on further training to develop her skills in skin cancer medicine, sexual health and mental health.

Dr Stephanie Eid
Dr Stephanie Eid MBBS

Clinical Examiner

Dr Terrance English
Dr Terrance English MBBS, BSc, BEd

Editorial Team and Clinical Examiner

Dr Kimberly Haladyn
Dr Kimberly Haladyn FRACGP, Clin Dip Pall Med, MBBS, MSc, BSc (Hons)

Clinical Examiner

Dr Thomas Dethlefs
Dr Thomas Dethlefs MBBS, GradDipOphthSci, BMus, FRACGP

Clinical Examiner

Dr Latimah Jones
Dr Latimah Jones MBBS

Editorial Team

Affie Farokhzad
Affie Farokhzad B.Eng, Dip. OHS

Accounts

Dr Joscelyn Gan
Dr Joscelyn Gan MBBS

Exam support

Clinical exam course co-ordinator

Clinical exam role-player

Dr Rafael Lee
Dr Rafael Lee MBBS

Clinical exam course co-ordinator

Laura Andersen
Laura Andersen -

Coordinator, Education Services and Administration

Kristy Taylor
Kristy Taylor BB BA

Training and Media Coordinator

Philippa Danks
Philippa Danks -

Training Coodinator

Dr Laura Machan
Dr Laura Machan MBBS

Clinical exam course leader

Dr Laura Cashman
Dr Laura Cashman MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Natasha Sosnin
Dr Natasha Sosnin MBBS

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Catriona McLaren
Dr Catriona McLaren MBBS

Clinical exam support team

Dr Sophie Einoder
Dr Sophie Einoder MBBS

Clinical exam support team

Dr Rachel Cheong
Dr Rachel Cheong MBBS

Clinical exam support team

Dr William Poh
Dr William Poh MBBS

Clinical exam team

Dr Allanah Howard-Bath
Dr Allanah Howard-Bath MBBS

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Julia Corfield
Dr Julia Corfield MBBS

Clinical exam team

Dr Cassandra Poon
Dr Cassandra Poon Clinical Exam Support

Clinical exam support team

Dr Christian Gan
Dr Christian Gan MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Thomas Moran
Dr Thomas Moran Clinical Exam Support

Clinical exam support team

Dr Emily Thrower
Dr Emily Thrower Clinical Exam Support

Clinical exam support team

Dr Micaela De Luca
Dr Micaela De Luca MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Claudia Crawford
Dr Claudia Crawford MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Lauren Clementson
Dr Lauren Clementson MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Paige Dissanayake
Dr Paige Dissanayake Clinical Exam Support

Clinical exam support team

Dr Sachin Phakey
Dr Sachin Phakey MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Louise Rait
Dr Louise Rait MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Hannah Webster
Dr Hannah Webster MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Emily Robertson
Dr Emily Robertson MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Miriam Belhadfa
Dr Miriam Belhadfa MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Jonathan Wong
Dr Jonathan Wong MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Susannah Westbury
Dr Susannah Westbury MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Margaret Taylor
Dr Margaret Taylor MBBS

Support team

Clinical exam course facilitator

Dr Emily Lai
Dr Emily Lai MD B-BMED

Editorial Team

Dr Jeremy Yang
Dr Jeremy Yang MBBS

Editorial Team

Dr Amelia Russell
Dr Amelia Russell BMed, MD, Clin Dip Pall Med, DCH

Clinical Examiner

Dr Emily De Luca
Dr Emily De Luca BBiomed, MBBS, FRACGP

Editorial Team

Dr Laura Townsend
Dr Laura Townsend BMed.MD, FRACGP

Clinical exam course content reviewer and role player

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