About Us
Accessible via ramp, stairs and lift.
2hr undercover & disabled parking is available for patients underneath the building
Convenient, Expert, Local Healthcare at Affordable Prices
Coorparoo Clinic has been delivering quality service for over 15 years, offering easy parking, personal touch and focussing on maintaining a high standard of personal care and clinical patient outcome.
Care for our patients is not just a value statement, we aim to meet the expectations of our patients.
We value relationships to lead the way with a positive environment and outcome. We work to continue to improve and take pride in achieving our goals and to challenge ourselves to find a better way. We care about our community.
Expert Doctors.
Professional Care.
Dr Mark Fletcher
MBBS
Dr Fletcher has practised continually in the Coorparoo area for the last 30-40years. He is married and has 3 grown up children. His interests include the love of nature, the outdoors, camping, bushwalking and the beach. He also enjoys rhythm and blues music. Dr Fletcher enjoys all aspects of family medicine including babies and young toddlers as well as adolescent care through to the elderly. He believes in being proactive regarding illness Travel advice is a special interest and he is able to offer a Yellow Fever vaccination service. Twice a year he travels to remote villages in the Solomon Islands with a small medical crew to offer free medical aid to the village people.
Dr Maura Connolly
FRACGP
Dr Connolly has over 20 years’ experience as a GP in Brisbane. She enjoys all aspects of family medicine with a special interest in sports medicine, along with women’s health and children’s health.
Dr Ginene Carmody
MBBS
Dr Carmody has worked and travelled all around Australia mostly in rural areas before settling in Brisbane in 2004. She is interested in all areas of medicine with a special interest in women’s’ health and also does muscular- skeletal acupuncture. She has a strong interest in fitness and does regular aerobic and dance classes, as well as being a member of a walking club. She is passionate about blues and rock music and is a member of the South East Blues Association.
Dr John Stevens
MBBS
Dr Stevens enjoys all aspects of family medicine, men’s health and skin surgery.
Dr Michelle Burrows
MBBS
Dr Burrows has been a GP all over Queensland and has moved back to Brisbane after raising children in Atherton. She is widely travelled, enjoys reading and playing hockey. She loves the incredible variety of General Practice and enjoys looking after a person ‘from cradle to grave’.
Dr Shimali Fernando
MBBS FRACGP
I have over 18 years of experience practising Medicine, including 15 years of General Practice. Worked in Mt Gravatt for 7 years and rural Tasmania for 4 years, prior to moving to Coorparoo. Before moving to Australia with my family in 2008, I worked in different areas of medicine, including Hospitals and General Practice in rural and remote areas of Sri Lanka. I obtained Fellowship of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2012 and obtained a Diploma in Sexual Health Medicine in 2007. I’m a provider of Shared Antenatal Care with Mater Mother Hospital, and provide Implanon insertions and removals. I’m interested in all aspects of General Practice. Work from Monday to Friday 8.30-3pm. I have 2 teenage children, one in University and the other in high school, and I speak Sinhalese and English.
Dr Amy Callaghan
MBBS FRACGP DCH
CURRENTLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE
Dr Callaghan is a GP with a strong passion for women’s health and wellbeing, including sexual health, cervical screening, contraceptive advice, antenatal care, and women’s mental health. She places emphasis on holistic, patient centred care and likes to take time to build trust, comfort, and shared health goals with her patients. She completed her medical school training in Melbourne in 2014 and went on to work at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and The Alfred Hospital. She returned to her hometown of Brisbane in 2018 and recently obtained her RACGP fellowship. In addition to women’s health, Dr Callaghan also has a keen interest in paediatrics, having completed her Diploma in Child Health. She also has experience working in a travel medicine clinic and can offer detailed travel advice and vaccinations, including yellow fever vaccines. Areas of interest: Women’s health, Sexual health & STI Screening and treatment, Contraceptive advice, Women’s mental health and Travel Medicine
Dr Heather Carcary
MBBS FACRRM
Dr Carcary grew up in a small town in far North Queensland on a dairy farm. She attended James Cook University (Townsville), which has a rural health focus. She had many rural placements in rural QLD and for the last 5 years she has been working at Mt Isa Hospital Emergency Department. After meeting her husband they relocated from Mount Isa to the Redland Bay area. Outside of work she loves to cook (but not wash-up), photography and to travel. She has hiked the Kokoda track, have walked on the Antarctic sea ice and sailed the fjords of Norway. She is enjoying the change from rural emergency medicine at Mount Isa to General Practice/Family Medicine with the team at the Coorparoo Clinic. Her passion is for women’s health/family medicine. She provides services in Immunisation, Travel Medicine and Chronic Disease Management.
Dr Hamidreza Saeedfar
FRACGP, MBBS
Dr Hamidreza Saeedfar has been in general practice for over a decade and continues to enjoy providing medical services and advice to the community. He is an avid gardener and is always happy to chat with patients about any medical concerns they may have. He welcomes new patients and is experienced in a wide range of general health.
Dr Kathleen Poon
FRACGP, MBBS, BSc
Dr Kathleen Poon grew up in Brisbane and graduated as a medical practitioner from the University of Queensland in 2016. Since then, she has worked throughout rural and regional Queensland, most recently returning from Cairns. She has done further study, completing the Sydney Child Health Program (formerly the Diploma of Child Health).
She is interested in the variety of general practice, including paediatrics, women’s health, and chronic disease.
Outside of medicine, Kathleen enjoys playing violin, and spending time with family.
Dr Christine Stathakis
MBBS
Dr Stathakis has been a long term local of the Coorparoo/Camp Hill community. She has been practicing for 30 years and her family are an integral part of her work, having reared her children in the practice! She has a keen interest in Orthopaedic and in particular spinal medicine and is working within the private and public hospital sector to improve patient continuing of care and outcomes.