Contact Details:

Location:

On street level in royal parade, at the Melbourne Private Hospital, facing Melbourne University.

Parking:

Royal Melbourne Hospital Carpark entrance 1 on Royal Parade.

Staff:

Medical Director: Dr Tony Gherardin

Currently the National Medical Director of the Travellers' Medical and Vaccination Centre Group. Prior to joining the company he worked for three years as Medical Officer in charge of the Australian Embassy medical clinic in Beijing, China. His wide-ranging experience with expatriates overseas also includes work as a physician for a number of Australian Government departments on Cocos (Keeling) Islands for 2 years. Before his stint to China, Dr Gherardin was responsible for the early development of the TMVC Melbourne Clinic and is currently developing the TMVC Royal Melbourne Centre as a research institute specialising in international health and travel medicine.

Tony is particularly interested in the health-related concerns of expatriates on short and long term overseas postings who share a different range of illnesses and stresses. He has travelled widely over the last ten years and continues to communicate with various international colleagues whose responsibility involves expatriate families. His paper entitled "Malaria distribution in P.R. China - implications for prophylaxis" at the 4th International Society of Travel Medicine meeting in Mexico in 1995 has resulted in major changes to prescribing behavior world-wide. Dr Gherardin's broad experience in both urban and rural general practice allows the Group to provide support of regional and isolated medical practitioners.

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`!

Reception:

Hours of Operation:

After Hours Arrangements:

Dr Tony Gherardin (Medical Director) is on call for emergencies on 0418 566 975.

Clinic Specialities:

Treatment of post-travel illness
Pathology and radiology adjacent
Located at the Royal Melbourne Hospital with easy access to hospital services for the sick returned traveller

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.