Meet the Team

Dr Andrew Hadjitofi

General Practitioner

Andrew completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and obtained fellowship with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2013.  Prior to this Andrew completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy and worked as a hospital and community pharmacist.

Andrew has worked as an Emergency and Rural doctor across QLD, NSW and Victoria as well as in metropolitan Melbourne.

Andrew is an experienced general family physician, providing minor surgical procedures and chronic disease management. He has a special interest in travel medicine, infectious diseases and women’s health. He is a member of the International Society of Travel Medicine and is a Shared Care Maternal and Antenatal affiliate with Frankston and Monash Women’s hospital. Andrew also holds a Certificate in Skin Cancer Medicine.

In addition to his above work, Andrew is involved in training and supervising medical students and trainee General practitioners on their specialist pathway.

Andrew takes a holistic patient centred and evidence-based approach to medicine. He focuses on prevention as well as treatment of complex medical conditions. Andrew enjoys assisting people within the community maintain independence and take back control of their health matters at all stages in life.

Outside of work, Andrew loves exploring our great local beaches and country side with his wife and two young children. He enjoys bike riding, swimming and whilst more seldom nowadays is an amateur mountaineer, aspiring power lifter and rock climber.

Dr. Saima Aftab

General Practitioner, Female MBBS, FRACGP

Dr. Saima Aftab graduated medicine in 1997 from Dow University, Pakistan. She obtained MRCGP (Int.L)UK in 2010 and Fellowship of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2016 and attained the FPAA National Certificate in Reproductive and Sexual Health in 2019. She has been working in general practice/family medicine for over 20 years in Pakistan as well as in Saudia Arabia and relocated with her family to Tasmania, Australia in 2014.

Her special interests include Women’s Health, Paediatrics, Mental Health, Chronic Disease management, Skin lesions and Aged care.
She is competent in English, Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi languages.

She also enjoys cooking, gardening and knitting in spare time.

Areas of Interest

• Womans health
• Chronic disease management
• Mental health
• Child & Adolescent Health
• Family medicine
• Skin Disease

Languages Spoken

• English
• Hindi
• Punjabi
• Urdu

Dr. Sai Andey

General Practitioner, Male MBBS, FRACGP

Dr Sai Andey did his Bachelors in India and completed his Post-Graduate on the Mornington Peninsula. He worked for over 8 years there as a GP. He likes all aspects of general practice but has keen interest in lifestyle medicine, geriatrics, skin cancer, occupational medicine, and ENT. He holds Certificate of Clinical Occupation Medicine from Monash University and recently completed Certificate of Dermoscopy and Skin Cancer through the Skin Cancer College of Australasia. He believes that a good Doctor is a lifelong learner and for the same reason, enrolled as a tutor with Monash University Peninsula campus. In his free time, you would find him watching movies, riding a bike, or reading Quora.

Languages spoken: Telugu and Hindi

Areas of Interest

• Weight loss
• Weight management
• Obesity
• Occupational health
• Ear, Nose & Throat

Languages Spoken

• English
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Telugu

Dr Shamini Wiknesh

General Practitioner, Female

Shamini obtained her medical degree in Sri Lanka where she trained in General Medicine, Surgery and Cardiology. On moving to Australia she worked at several leading hospitals in Victoria covering various specialities successfully completing General Practice training in Victoria. She is a Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP).

She has been trained as a Paediatric Registrar at West Gippsland Hospital where she acquired further clinical skills working with children. In addition, she acquired skills training in women’s health successfully completing her Certificate. She is currently a shared maternity care affiliate with Peninsula health and Monash Health. As such she can assist with pregnancy follow-ups, along with the obstetrician and the midwife.

Being a skin cancer college accredited skin cancer doctor, Shamini is currently doing her fellowship (part 2) in skin cancer at the Skin Cancer College Australasia. She holds an Advanced Clinical Certificate of Dermoscopy together with the Advanced Clinical Certificate of Skin Cancer Medicine and Surgery.

Areas of Interest

• Skin cancer medicine
• Skin cancer management
• Skin checks
• Skin cancer surgery
• Antenatal care
• Post natal care

Languages Spoken

• Tamil

Dr Anil Simhadri

General Practitioner, Male MRCP, MBBS, MBBS (Hons)

Dr. Anil Simhadri completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge and then trained in general medicine in Leicester, obtaining full MRCP (Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, London). He continued working at the medical registrar level in a variety of medical specialties, including endocrinology, diabetes, geriatric, and stroke medicine. He finally decided to become a GP and moved to Australia in 2024. His areas of interest are geriatric and pediatric medicine. In his free time, he enjoys swimming and cooking. He is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Areas of Interest

• Geriatric medicine
• Pediatrics

Languages Spoken

• English
• Mandarin

Ben Milner

Exercise Physiologist, Male

Ben has been practicing as an exercise physiologist since 2017. He is a strong believer in exercise as medicine and evidence-based practice. Ben has a keen interest in chronic disease management with emphasis on osteoporosis and diabetes. He is passionate about assisting his clients to achieve their goals and improve their quality of life.

Kaitlyn Anderson

Dietitian, Female

Kaitlyn is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian specializing in fibromyalgia, food intolerance and chronic fatigue, as well as using nutrition to help manage allergy-like symptoms (such as hayfever, eczema or asthma), autoimmune disease, migraines and mental health. Her philosophy revolves around using an evidence-based, integrative and holistic approach to help people achieve health and wellbeing, and develop a life-long love affair with real food.

Robert Barsoum

Podiatrist, Male

Robert graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Podiatry in 2012. Over the past decade, he has continued to build on the foundation of his degree, develop his communication and refine his clinical podiatric skills under great mentorship. Robert enjoys learning and adding to his treatment repertoire.

Robert particularly enjoys helping his patients with painful ingrown toenails and offers a non-surgical toenail bracing therapy to reduce re-occurring symptoms.

His other areas of interest within Podiatry include; gait analysis, sport injury management and high risk/diabetic foot assessments.

Robert is glad to be part of the team at Hall Rd Medical Centre and is looking forward to forging new connections.

Klaus War

Psychologist, Male BSc (Hons)

I am psychodynamically oriented, which means I help clients to resolve their underlying issues, rather than only treating signs and symptoms. I specialise in crisis intervention, particularly in suicide prevention. I believe most of our problems stem from our early childhood experiences, which have been reinforced several times over the years. While most people can control their maladaptive thoughts and behaviours to some extent, if the underlying issues are still present, they tend to resurface and cause more grief each time, thus making them feel a lot worse than previously. I worked in a Community Mental Health Service for 11 years, and in a private practice for 4 years, assessed and treated all types of mental health issues and mental disorders, which included monitoring psychotropic medication compliance and side effects. I am a fully qualified hypnotherapist, treating all types of anxiety disorders, sleep disturbances, drug addictions, self-esteem issues, chronic pain, and IBS. I have 20 years of experience as a music teacher and taught children from age four to adults, aged 64 years. I also treat children and adolescents for peer relationship issues, school refusal, bullying, and poor school performance. I have 12 years of experience as an Ambulance Officer and have treated Emergency Services personnel for workplace issues, PTSD, and Acute Stress Disorder after attending critical incidents. I am a full member of the Australian Society of Hypnosis and the International

Areas of Interest

• Mental health
  
• Suicide prevention
• Self Harm
• Domestic Violence
• Child Abuse
• Crisis Intervention
• Transactual Analysis
• Hypnotherapy
• Intimate Interpersonal Relationships