Contact Details:

Location:

We are located between Bourke and Lonsdale St, and Elizabeth and Queen St, right in the heart of the Hardware St precinct.

Parking:

Wilson Parking, 392 Bourke Street. Entrance via Hardware Street.

Staff:

Our Medical Staff are trained in international public health and travel medicine. TMVC staff have travelled extensively and many have worked in less developed areas for extended periods.

Medical Director: Dr Sonny Lau MBBS, MRCP(UK), MPHTM

Dr Lau is a medical graduate of the University of Melbourne. He has been working specifically in the travel medicine field since 1993. Prior to this Dr Lau worked in Hong Kong between 1985 to 1991. He then gained training in Infectious Diseases at the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital in Melbourne. He completed his Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the James Cook University of North Queensland in Townsville in 1998. He is a certified medical examiner for recreational diving medical. His special interest is tropical diseases in returned travellers.

Doctors:

• Dr Heather Carmichael - Dr Carmichael has worked in Kathmandu for 3 months and Pakistan for 18 years in primary health care and community development and speaks Urdu and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of traveller's problems to our clinic.

• Dr Richard Wright - Dr Wright has been with TMVC for many years and has been the expedition doctor for Nepal trips in 1994 and 1995 and several group trips including a large group of elderly travellers in 1997. His special interest is in HIV medicine and Sports medicine.

• Dr James Beeson - Dr Beeson has spent time in Malawi working in malaria research; and in the Maela Camp for Burmese Karen refugees Tak Provence, Thailand working in antimalarial drug trials and primary health care. Besides his work at TMVC he is involved in a 3 year research project on malaria pathogenesis and protection with particular focus on malaria in pregnancy.

• Dr Michael Henderson - Dr Henderson has worked with TMVC since 1991, prior to this he has worked in South Africa, The United Kingdom and PNG.

Registered Nurses: All of our nurses have travelled extensively and most have worked overseas or been involved in volunteer programs or nursing training abroad. They are all highly skilled and trained to give injections and are able to alleviate the fears of the most anxious `fully grown child`!

Hours of Operation:

After Hours Arrangements:

Dr Sonny Lau is on call for emergencies on 0427 546 325.

Clinic Specialities:

All aspects of "one stop" travel medicine services.

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.