Current Doctors

Dr Leigh Trevillian

Profile and photo to follow soon

Dr Megan Cope

Dr Megan commenced employment at Wurli in August 2006. She has worked as a GP in Wollongong for more than three years, completing her RACGP qualifications in July 2005. Megan was a late bloomer, entering medicine as a mature age student having previously completed a BA (Hons) in Anthropology. She has travelled extensively, with great work opportunities in both the Philippines and in the north of Iraq, where she worked as a field coordinator for CARE Australia.

“Moving to Katherine to work in an AMS is fulfilling a lifetime dream.”

See Dr Megan's "GP lifestyle change video"

Adam, Jamal, Sammy
and Dr Megan

Dr Bruce Hocking

Dr Bruce worked as a General Practitioner in suburban Adelaide for 25 years, and for the past 4 years has worked within Aboriginal Medical Services in the Northern Territory. He has worked for Wurli on long term contracts since 2004.

“I love working in an AMS because the challenges for health care extend beyond pills and surgery to more fundamental issues of justice and equality. There is an opportunity for real healing to take place here, not only individually but culturally for black and white alike. And I keep coming back to Wurli because there is ample support, a well run organisation and a staff committed to providing the best quality care we can”.

Dr Bruce

Dr Shelly Pisani

Dr Shelly trained in Internal Medicine and Paediatrics in the United States, and has been working as a General Practitioner in the US and Australia for the past 10 years. She has only just arrived at Wurli - prior to this, she was employed at the Aboriginal Health Service in Port Augusta.

She is currently working on a Master of Public Health and tropical Medicine at James Cook University.

Dr Shelly

Dr Rajkumar Ramasamy

Dr Raj is a frequent “visitor” to Wurli, having worked with us on short and long term contracts since January 2005. Originally, Dr Raj trained in the United Kingdom as a Physician, but is now a vocationally registered General Practitioner.

“Since 2001, I have worked part of the year as a volunteer in a remote primary health centre in India, and part of the year in the Northern Territory. Most of my time in the Territory is with Wurli, although I spent almost two years at Kalkaringi in 2001 and 2002.

In India, my work includes health care for Indian Indigenous people, who have many cultural similarities to Australian Indigenous people. By and large, they live in mountainous or forested areas, making access to health care very difficult. Unfortunately, there is significantly less resource available in India to improve this situation.

With the support of my family and others, we established a primary health centre in the Nilgris Hills in South India. This centre makes primary health care available to about 17,000 Indigenous Indians.

I have been enriched and learnt a lot by working with Indigenous people, both here and in India, and enjoy the challenge of providing health care to them.”

Dr Raj and Family