Our Doctors

City East

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Dr Brenton Martin

MBBS, DipRACOG

Dr Martin is an experienced GP, with many years of both rural and city experience, which has provided him with a broad scope of practice and seen him develop a wide range of clinical interests. Over the last 15 years he has worked in both Yankalilla and Adelaide, and has developed a passion for working with students and University staff.

Special interests
Chronic Disease, Women’s Health, Contraception, Mirena/Implanon insertion, Menopause, Pelvic Pain, Travel Medicine, Skin Cancer, Dermoscopy

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Dr Joanne Chew

MBBS, FRACGP, DCH

Joanne enjoys the breadth of general practice and has a strong interest in women’s, mental and preventative health. She also holds a Diploma of Child Health and is accredited to insert and remove implanons. Joanne grew up in Malaysia, and completed her medical degree at The University of Adelaide. She is a fellow of the RACGP, and is happily married and with 2 young boys.

Special interests
Women’s Health, Implanon, Mental Health, Preventative Medicine, General Medicine

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Dr Zori Penkoff

MBBS FRACGP

Zori was awarded RACGP Fellowship in 2016 after completing her rotations in a number of GP practices in Adelaide and regional South Australia. Zori previously worked in a number of hospital posts in Adelaide, Darwin, NT and the United Kingdom, gaining experience in Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.

Special interests
Women’s Health, Mirena IUD/Implanon, Preventative Medicine

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Dr Denise Braica - GP Registrar

MBBS, FRACGP, PhD Medicine

Denise is a GP registrar who has a strong interested in

  • Women’s health
  • Sexual health
  • Aboriginal health
  • Preventative medicine
  • Shared Care
  • IUD Insertion

Denise graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2019 and has done multiple rotations throughout South Australia and Darwin. She has spent the last two years at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital working in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and has her Certificate in Women’s Health and Diploma of Women’s Health along with accreditation in Shared Care.

Special interests
Women’s Health, Sexual Health, Aboriginal Health & Preventative Medicine

Dr Isabella Simpson - GP Registrar

BSC, PHD, B.M.B.S

Bella graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2019

She has worked in multiple hospitals in Australia including the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Modbury Hospital and Lyell McEwin Hospital in South Australia, and the Sunshine Coast University Hospital, and Nambour General Hospital in Queensland.

She has also worked as a GP in a clinic in Kadina, and still works a few days a week at a clinic in the Adelaide Hills.

She enjoys every day general practice, and has a particular interest in

  • Women’s health
  • Obstetrics
  • Paediatrics
  • Travel medicine

She is trained in Implanon insertion, Yellow fever immunisation, and GP obstetric shared care. She is currently undergoing her IUD (Mirena/Kyleena) insertion training, and will happily see new patients interested in this.

She lives locally in the Adelaide Hills and enjoys going running with her friends.

Special interests

Women’s Health, Contraception, Mirena/Implanon insertion, Shared Care, Travel Medicine

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Sarah has interest in women’s and children’s health. She grew up in Malaysia. She completed her medical degree at the University of Adelaide. She then completed her GP training in the country and obtained her RACGP fellowship in 2011. She has worked in a few different practices over the last 10 years.

She also likes to spend quality time with her young children. In her free time, she likes to do photo editing, playing badminton and quilting.

Special interests
Women’s and Children’s Health

City West

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Dr Charles Christie

BMBS, BHSC, FRACGP

With 14 years’ experience as a rural GP, Dr Christie quickly develops lasting rapport with patients, and because of this, has a loyal patient following. He finds working with UniSA staff and students to be greatly rewarding, and is committed to providing quality training to GP Registrars and Medical Students.

Special interests
skin cancer medicine

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Dr Thomas Shaw

MChD, BPharm (Hons)

Tom grew up in Adelaide and studied Pharmacy at UniSA. He later studied medicine at ANU and completed his internship in Canberra. He returned to SA to work as a junior doctor at the RAH and the WCH, before starting GP Training as a Registrar in the Barossa in 2019, and continuing at UniSA Health & Medical in 2020. Outside medicine, he enjoys cricket, football, and playing touch footy.

Special interests
paediatrics, men’s health, travel medicine, general medicine

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Dr Malene Smith

MBBS, FRACGP

Dr Malene Smith (She/Her)

Malene graduated from The University of Adelaide in 1995 and worked in various areas of General Practice before discovering a passion for student (domestic and international) and young adult health over the past decade.

She is comfortable dealing with mental health, sexual health and travel medicine, amongst regular general practice issues, and is interested in the impact of cultural, family and life experiences on health presentations.

Outside of medicine, she is a lover of all things colourful and enjoys painting, knitting, reading and travelling.

Other languages spoken – Danish

** Please note, she does not see patients under the age of 16

Special interests

Student Health, Mental Health , Travel Medicine, Sexual Health

Our Allied Health Practitioners

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Olga Djuric

MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORKER (AMHSW)

Olga Djuric is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has developed a specialisation in the field of grief, loss and bereavement. Olga worked for 19 years Olga in a Palliative Care setting as a Specialist Bereavement Care Social Worker. She provides grief and bereavement counseling to a wide variety of people including individuals, couples and families, experiencing a range of psychological difficulties. For the last 17 years Olga has run support groups for bereaved widows, widowers, children, and adult children. When pursuing quality therapeutic alliance with clients, Olga sees as her primary goal the establishment of rapport and building trust with core-centred attributes of congruency, acceptance and empathy.