Mount Barker District Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital surgical services and specialists

The list of specialists who provide surgical services at Mount Barker District Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital is provided to assist GPs and members of the community with information about each specialist, including an indication of procedures performed, referral information, and the location of their consulting rooms.

The information listed has been provided by each specialist.

Information about surgeons can be found on the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons website ‘Find a Surgeon’ directory. The listing includes surgeons who meet the requirements of the College’s Continuing Professional Development program and have opted to be on the list.

Anaesthetic Assessment

Patients may also need to book and attend an appointment for anaesthetic assessment and if this is the case, a surgeon, specialist or a member of our nursing team will let the patient know. Costs may be involved as appointments will be required within the rooms of a specialist or GP.

A patient’s responses to the pre-anaesthetic screening, which is either completed digitally or via a paper-based form, will also indicate the need for a Pre-Anaesthetic Consult (telephone or face-to-face) and/or additional assessment(s).

Ear, nose and throat

Theodore Athanasiadis

  • Procedures:
    • Tonsillectomy (child and adult)
    • Adenoidectomy
    • Functional endoscopic sinus surgery
    • Septoplasty

Referrals — phone (08) 8185 1661, fax 7123 6401

Consulting rooms — Adelaide & Hills ENT, 191 Wakefield Street, Adelaide

Website — www.ahent.com.au

Samuel Boase

  • Procedures:
    • Tonsillectomy (child and adult)
    • Adenoidectomy
    • Functional endoscopic sinus surgery
    • Panendoscopy
    • Myringotomy
    • Septoplasty

Referrals — phone 8185 1661, fax 7123 6401

Consulting rooms — Adelaide & Hills ENT, 191 Wakefield Street, Adelaide

Website — www.ahent.com.au

General surgery

Matt Lawrence

  • Procedures:
    • Adult inguinal hernia
    • Haemorrhoidectomy
    • Colonoscopy

Referrals — HealthLink ID: standwmc, Argus: argusreports@colorectalsa.com.au, fax 8227 1150

Consulting rooms — Summit Health, 85 Wellington Road, Mount Barker; private at Stirling Hospital and St Andre’s Medical Centre

Fees — contact rooms on 8232 9115

Website — www.colorectalsa.com.au

Tiong Cheng Sia

  • Procedures:
    • Cholecystectomy
    • Pilonidal sinus surgery
    • Colonoscopy
    • Upper GI endoscopy
    • Perianal disease
    • Bowel pathology
    • All hernia types (inguinal, femoral, incisional, umbilical)

Referrals — HealthLink ID: drtwilsn, fax 8275 3197, email admin@gisurgery.net.au

Consulting rooms — Adelaide Hills O&G, 89 Wellington Road, Mount Barker; private — Ashford Hospital, Flinders Private hospital; public —  Mount Barker Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre

Fees — no gaps on most surgeries, consult fees apply, private and public patients, initial consultation (and pensioner), subsequent visit (and pensioners)

Website — www.colorectalsg.com.au

Comus Whalan

  • Procedures:
    • Cholecystectomy
    • Vasectomy
    • Adult inguinal hernia
    • Colonoscopy
    • Gastroscopy
    • Wedge resection for ingrown toenail
    • Carpal tunnel
    • Excision of lesions
    • Pilonidal sinus/fistula

Referrals — phone 8326 5044, fax 8326 5721

Consulting rooms — Strathalbyn Medical Centre for patients within the area of Strathalbyn and Mount Barker only

Fees — consult fee with Medicare rebate

Website — www.comuswhalan.com.au

Philip Worley

  • Procedures:
    • Epigastric/umbilical and femoral/incisional hernia
    • Cholecystectomy
    • Pilonidal sinus surgery
    • Toenail surgery
    • Circumcision (adult)
    • Vasectomy
    • Carpal tunnel release
    • Lipoma (excision of and grafting)
    • Other plastic surgery (skin lesions)
    • Hydrocoele repair
    • Gastroscopy and colonoscopy
    • Other general surgery

Accepts referrals — GP or patient to contact rooms: phone 8363 5233, email drworleyadmin@internode.on.net, some GIT Endoscopy available by ‘Facilitated Access’

Consulting rooms — Angaston, Stirling and Evandale

Fees — may be a fee for consultation, may be a gap for private procedures

Website — www.drphilworley.com.au

Gynaecologist

Heather Waterfall

  • Procedures:
    • Hysterectomy
    • Curettage and evacuation of uterus
    • Endometrial ablation
    • Hysteroscopy/dilation and curettage
    • Laparoscopy
    • Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix
    • Terminations of pregnancy
    • Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy
    • Vaginal repair (anterior and posterior) 

Referral criteria — relevant scans, pathology reports

Acceptance of referrals — HealthLink, fax 8485 1917

Consulting rooms — Adelaide Hills O&G, 89 Wellington Road, Mount Barker, with other locations at Stirling Hospital, Burnside Hospital, Mount Barker District Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Southern Fleurieu Health Service, Kangaroo Island Health Service

Fees — payment required on day (concession rates available), non-gap for minor procedures, gap for major procedures

Website — www.adelaidehillsoandg.com 

Obstetrician — Gynaecologist

Melanie Johnson

  • Procedures:
    • Hysterectomy
    • Curettage and evacuation of uterus
    • Endometrial ablation
    • Hysteroscopy/dilation and curettage
    • Laparoscopy
    • Large loop excision of the transformation zone cervix
    • Terminations of pregnancy
    • Salpingo-oophorectomy/oophorectomy/ovarian cystectomy
    • Vaginal repair (anterior and posterior) 

Referral criteria — relevant scans, pathology reports

Acceptance of referrals — HealthLink, fax 8485 1917

Consulting rooms — Adelaide Hills O&G, 89 Wellington Road, Mount Barker, with other locations at Stirling Hospital, Burnside Hospital, Mount Barker District Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Southern Fleurieu Health Service, Kangaroo Island Health Service

Fees — payment required on day (concession rates available), non-gap for minor procedures, gap for major procedures

Website — www.adelaidehillsoandg.com

Ophthalmology

Jaskirat Aujla

  • Procedures:
    • Cataract
    • Blepharoplasty

Referrals — phone 8391 2677, fax 8398 2288

Consulting rooms — corner Mann and Walker Streets, Mount Barker

Website — www.kingswoodeyecentre.com.au

Timothy Gray

  • Procedures:
    • Cataract extraction and intraocular lens
    • Excision of pterygium

Referrals — phone 8391 2677, fax 8398 2288

Consulting rooms — corner Mann and Walker Streets, Mount Barker

Website — www.kingswoodeyecentre.com.au

Matthew Little

  • Procedures:
    • Cataract extraction and intraocular lens
    • Excision of pterygium

Referrals — phone 8391 2677,  fax 8398 2288

Consulting rooms — corner Mann and Walker Streets, Mount Barker

Website — www.kingswoodeyecentre.com.au

Soo Ng

  • Procedures:
    • Cataract
    • Blepharoplasty
    • Trabeculectomy

Referrals — phone 8391 2677, fax 8398 2288

Consulting rooms — corner Mann and Walker Streets, Mount Barker

Website — www.kingswoodeyecentre.com.au

Andrew Simpson

  • Procedures:
    • Cataract extraction and intraocular lens
    • Excision of pterygium

Referrals — phone 8391 2677, fax 8398 2288

Consulting rooms — corner Mann and Walker Streets, Mount Barker 5251

Website — www.kingswoodeyecentre.com.au

Nadia Kerry Wittles

  • Procedures:
    • Lens extraction
    • Blepharoplasty
    • Correction of ectropion
    • Excision of pterygium
    • Cataract
    • Glaucoma surgery
    • Penetrating keratoplasty and deep lamellar keratoplasty
    • Removal of ocular surface neoplasias
    • Ectropion
    • Entropion
    • Blepharoplasty and other small lid procedures
    • Evisceration of blind eyes
    • Secondary implant of lenses
    • Iris repair
    • Penetrating eye trauma repair

Manages medical retina cases in the clinic and most adult general ophthalmology cases excluding strabismus

Referrals — phone 8391 2677, fax 8398 2288

Consulting rooms — corner Mann and Walker Streets, Mount Barker

Website — www.kingswoodeyecentre.com.au

Orthopaedic surgery

Jonathan Cabot

  • Procedures:
    • Total hip replacement
    • Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
    • Arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression
    • Arthroscopy
    • Total knee replacement

Referrals — phone 8267 8228, fax 8267 2007

Consulting rooms — 1 Kermode Street, North Adelaide

Website — www.jcabot.com.au

John van Essen

  • Procedures:
    • Total hip replacement
    • Arthroscopy
    • Total knee replacement

Referrals — phone 8267 2590, fax 8224 2249

Consulting rooms — Adelaide Orthosports Clinic, AMA House, Level 1, 161 Ward Street, North Adelaide

Website — www.drjohnvanessen.com.au

Peter Stavrou

  • Procedures:
    • Total Knee Replacement
    • Total Ankle Replacement
    • Bunion Correction/Toe Deformity
    • Knee & Ankle Arthroscopy

Referrals — phone 8224 2277, fax 8224 2270

Consulting rooms — 215 Hutt Street, Adelaide

Website — www.kneefootankle.com.au

Jan Tomlinson

  • Procedures:
    • Total hip replacement
    • Arthroscopy shoulder/sub acromial decompression
    • Shoulder joint replacement
    • Arthroscopy
    • Total knee replacement
    • Carpal tunnel release

Referrals — private only, phone 8339 7711, fax 8339 7722

Consulting rooms — 3 Stonehenge Avenue, Stirling

Plastic surgery

Nicolas Marshall

  • Procedures:
    • Carpal tunnel release
    • Excision of ganglion
    • Fasciectomy
    • Excision of skin lesions
    • Trigger finger/thumb release

Referrals — phone 8213 1800, fax 8213 1811

Consulting rooms — APSA Level 4, 18 North Terrace, Adelaide

Website — www.apsa.com.au

Urology

Richard Wells

  • Procedures:
    • Adult circumcision
    • TUR prostatectomy
    • Prostate biopsy
    • Cystoscopy
    • Vasectomy
    • Other urology

Referrals — phone 8215 9444, fax 8232 3316

Consulting rooms — South Terrace Urology, 326 South Terrace, Adelaide

Website — www.sturology.com.au

Vascular surgery

Peter Subramaniam

  • Procedures:
    • Varicose veins
    • Toe amputations (minor)
    • Debridements

Referrals — Medical-Objects, fax 8239 0644

Consulting rooms — Stirling Hospital, 20 Milan Terrace, Stirling; Suite 1, 183 Tynte Street, North Adelaide

Fees — full payment required on day of consultation

Website — www.adelaidevascular.com.au

Also consulting at the Mount Barker District Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital

Referral information is yet to be confirmed for:

  • Steve Ivett – Oral, dental
  • Tony Mavrokokki – Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  • Zahi Khouri – Oral and maxillofacial surgery
  • Mark Lewis – General surgeon
  • Janina Kaczmarczyk – General surgeon
  • George Balalis – General surgeon
  • Rebecca Cooksey – Paediatric surgery and urology