Contact Details:

Location:

In Gilbert Place next to Red Star Cafe and around the corner from the Pancake kitchen.

Parking:

Is available in the Hindley St Wilson Parking

Staff:

Director: Dr Robert Kass MBBS, MRCP, MScMCH, DCH, FAFPHM. Dr Kass is a Director of the Travellers' Medical and Vaccination Centre group of clinics. He is an international health consultant and has served on the Executive Board of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) for 4 years. He holds specialist qualifications in paediatrics and public health medicine and has worked in a number of overseas countries, including Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tokelau, Thailand, Laos and Burma.

He has also worked as a paediatrician in Central Australia where much of his work was with aboriginal communities. During his period as paediatrician for the Islands region of PNG Dr Kass was responsible for overseeing the care of not only the local people but also the considerable number of expatriate children living in the region. His maintains a special interest in tropical child health.

In 1998 he was invited as a plenary speaker to the Asia Pacific Travel Health Association meeting in Taiwan where he spoke on the role of International Travel Medicine clinics. In October 1998 he was an invited speaker at the Australian College of Tropical Medicine meeting in Perth where he introduced a new concept on the surveillance of travel related illness through Travel Medicine Clinics. At the recent Asia Pacific Travel Health Society meeting in Bali, July 2000, he was elected to the Board and will serve as treasurer.

Dr David Scrimgeour MBBS BMedSc MPH FAFPHM

David Scrimgeour is a graduate of Melbourne University, with postgraduate qualifications in public health from Harvard University. He has worked on a refugee health program in Sudan, on tuberculosis control in Indonesia, with WHO on malaria control in Namibia, and with WHO and AusAID on non-communicable disease control in various Pacific Island countries. He also has extensive experience working with Aboriginal people in remote areas of Australia. He also enjoys travel, and has traveled through many countries especially in Asia and Central America.

Dr Maggie Phillips MBBS, DTM&H;, DRCOG

Dr Phillips has a special interest in tropical medicine and infectious diseases. She has many years experience as a primary health care provider in the Northern Territory, P.N.G. Western Samoa, Bangladesh and suburban Adelaide. She is currently a regional co-ordinator for an international surveillance programme on travel related health problems - Geosentinel. This programme is a joint operation between the International Society of Travel Medicine and the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Dr Phillips is experienced in women's health care and accredited to perform medicals for recreational divers. Her MPH treatise on "User acceptability of currently used antimalarials" and follow up paper in the Journal of Travel medicine is well quoted in medical literature.

Dr Michael Sorokin MBBCh, FRCP(Edin)

Dr Sorokin has extensive experience as a physician and G.P. in South Africa, the U.K., the Pacific Islands and rural South Australia. He has special interests in rheumatology, infectious diseases and preventative medicine. He was recently awarded the Order of Fiji in recognition of his services to health care in Fiji.

Dr Sorokin is partly responsible for the maintenance of the TMVC Database and helps with reference material for the continuing education of TMVC medical staff.

Registered Nurses: Cath Pugh (Clinic Manager)

Reception:
Judy Barnes
Veronica Pecir

Hours of Operation:

After Hours Arrangements:

TMVC House is not only the location for travel health advice and vaccinations in Adelaide, but is also the national headquarters for the TMVC group. TMVC House offers a general practice service (City Centre Medical Clinic) and Shacklock Physiotherapy. TMVC Adelaide is able to provide an on site occupational vaccination program for groups of over 20 or more. In the past we have vaccinated companies in 30 sites for flu vaccination as well as merchant seamen requiring vaccines while in port. We are regularly involved in vaccinating students on campus for overseas trips. If you would like to know more about this service please contact Catherine Pugh on 08 8212 7522.

Clinic Specialities:

TMVC House is not only the location for travel health advice and vaccinations in Adelaide, but is also the national headquarters for the TMVC group. TMVC House offers a general practice service (City Centre Medical Clinic) and Shacklock Physiotherapy.

TMVC Adelaide is able to provide an on site occupational vaccination program for groups of over 20 or more. In the past we have vaccinated companies in 30 sites for flu vaccination as well as merchant seamen requiring vaccines while in port. We are regularly involved in vaccinating students on campus for overseas trips. If you would like to know more about this service please contact Catherine Pugh on 08 8212 7522.

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.