Contact Details:

Location:

The clinic is situated on the DF Malan Drive service road between Mendellsohn and Olive Schreiner road. It is easily accessible from the Central Business Districts of both Johannesburg and Sandton, and from the Free State and Pretoria via the N3 highway.

Parking:

Free secure parking is available in front of the clinic.

Staff:

The Clinic Director, Dr. Albie de Frey is a graduate of the University of Pretoria and holds post-graduate qualifications in Travel Medicine (University of Glasgow, Scotland), Primary Emergency Care, and Anaesthesiology. He is an Honorary lecturer in Travel Medicine at the Department of Community Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand.

Dr de Frey is a Designated Aviation Medical Examiner, a Dive Medical Examiner and Flight Medical Attendant.

His career path included working in Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, then two and a half years in a hospital in Malawi followed by a posting in the United Kingdom. On returning to South Africa he returned to Baragwanath, then became Medical Director of a South African based international assistance company, before founding WORLDWIDE TRAVEL MEDICAL CONSULTANTS IN 1995. Involvement in travel medicine has taken him all over the world, providing insight into the practice of medicine in the global village.

He consults to a number of multinational corporations, missionary societies and humanitarian aid organisations and frequently lectures on topics related to travel medicine, his special interest being traveller health education.

Along with Dr Anwar Hoosen, Dr De Frey is responsible for the introduction of The Travel Doctor Group into Africa, integrating the WTMC group into The Travel Doctor Africa, to the benefit of the corporate and casual clients of both groups.

Dr Therese Maarschalk, Travel Health Consultant is a graduate of the University of the Orange Free State and subsequently gained qualifications in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Obstetrics and Anaesthesiology. She is presently researching the attitudes and beliefs of expatriates regarding malaria and malaria prophylaxis as part of her studies in Occupational Health.

Dr Maarschalk spent several years in Malawi, central Africa where she took responsibility for the Tuberculosis programme in the rural hospital she worked in. A stint in the United Kingdom was followed by seven years in private practice, with a special interest in woman and child health.

Ms Lyn Croote, Clinic Manager, qualified as a Critical Care Attendant (Paramedic) and worked in the Gauteng and Soweto area at the height of the pre-election violence that preceded the 1994 elections. She subsequently spent two years in Mali, West Africa where she was responsible for the health, safety, emergency and primary health care of approximately 1500 construction workers.

Prior to and following this period she toured and worked extensively and in 2000 became one of the first recipients of a Certificate in Travel Medicine in South Africa.

Ms Croote has extensive experience in the equipping and stocking of remote site emergency services, invaluable to our clients.

Hours of Operation:

After Hours Arrangements:

We have a 24 hour emergency service for Corporate Clients

Clinic Specialities:

WTMC / The Travel Doctor Africa Johannesburg provides comprehensive expatriate health risk management to a broad spectrum of Corporate clients. In addition to the standard travel clinic functions of vaccination, malaria prophylaxis and travel health advice, we provide our clients with expert advice on expatriate health risk management policy and protocol drafting, assessment of travel insurance suitability and the evaluation of host country health care providers.

We are the only practice in South Africa dedicated exclusively to travel medicine in all its facets.

Your Clinic Visit

We look forward to welcoming you to our clinic. You may care to visit our patient information section for details of what to expect when you visit us, what to bring to your appointment, and some background information on some of the more common vaccines.