Alphington Medical Centre

MBBS. Dr. Bernadette Hess graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1982, working at St Vincent’s then the Western Hospital. In 1990 she moved to General Practice, initially in Footscray and joined Alphington Medical Centre in 1997. Over many of those years, she also worked in General Practices attached to Emergency Departments in the northern suburbs. She has interest and experience in many areas of General Practice and enjoys seeing all, from babies through to people in their later years. Please Note: Dr Hess is not taking New Patients

MBBS, FRACGP, DCH.
Dr. Shirley Au graduated from Melbourne University in 2006 and has been working at Alphington Medical Centre since 2011. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has completed Diploma in Child Health through Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology through RANZCOG. She speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.

Please Note: Dr Raftopoulos is not accepting New Patients at the moment.
MBBS, FRACGP. Dr Maria Raftopoulos Graduated from Melbourne University in 1995. She is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She speaks fluent Greek. Her main interests are women’s health, mental health and paediatrics.

Please Note: Dr Nguyen is not seeing New Patients at the moment.
FRACGP.
Dr Thanh-Thuan Nguyen is a passionate family Doctor enjoying broad variety and at times challenging complexity in General Practice. Having grown up for thirty years in Germany, he graduated in medicine in 2005 and obtained his Fellowship in 2016 with the Royal Australian College of GPs.

Since relocating to Melbourne in 2008, he gained valuable hospital experience in Ballarat, Frankston and Rosebud (2012-2015), and enjoyed marvellous GP Training in rural Gippsland (Korumburra, Warragul) and 4 years in Cowes on Phillip Island. Since mid-2018, he has settled in Melbourne and last worked in the Preston area.

Dr Nguyen has special interests in Preventive Health, Lifestyle Medicine, and Aged Care. Additionally, Implanon insertion/removal and minor skin surgery. Languages: German, Vietnamese and petit French. Dr Nguyen enjoys time with his family, tennis and swimming.

Please Note: Dr Gates is not seeing New Patients at the moment. (with the exception of IUD and Antenatal appointments).
MBBS FRACGP, B.MUS, GradDip (HUMSS). Special Interests: General Medicine, Woman's health and Family planning. Dr. Merilyn Gates graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1991. Her interests lie in general medicine, women’s health, and antenatal shared care. For 19 years she worked with Dr. Chris Apostolopoulos at Darebin Road Medical Clinic. Merilyn sang with the Melbourne Chorale/ MSO Chorus for 10 years and loves opera. On occasion, you may see her hacking away on the local golf course or enjoying a good frappe.

Dr Jude Gerald is a male doctor.

Dr Monica Singh is a Fellow of RACGP and has extensive experience working in Australia and overseas. She has worked at various regional and city hospitals and clinics in Victoria. She has undergone training with RACGP and also holds specialist qualification overseas. She enjoys all aspects of General practice with interest in mental health, sexual health, women’s health & chronic diseases. She has level 2 Mental Health Training in providing focused Psychological Strategies. She speaks Hindi fluently. She conducts driver’s license assessments, completes insurance and Work Cover forms and prescribes S4 and S8 medicines to her regular patients only. Aside from spending time with family and friends, she enjoys creating meals to share with friends, gardening & reading.Important: Please note, Dr. Monica Singh requires patients to wear face mask during the consultation.

Dr Chabbou’s special interests are mental health, emergency, paediatrics and drug rehabilitation. Dr Chabbou was born in Syria and completed his medical training in Romania. Dr Chabbou has worked in Tasmania, Frankston, Swan Hill, Kyabram and Western Hospital before settling in Cobram in 2001. Dr Chabbou speaks English, Arabic and Romanian and is a Registrar GP trainer.