THIKNING + BEING LIVING, THINKING Dr Afraz Adam, Dr Rachel Lee & Dr Lucien Paul-Robie
DOCTOR360 - A NEW SERVICE FOR PONSONBY White Cross Ponsonby recently shut its doors after many years of service to the Ponsonby community. This has paved the way for a brand new boutique medical clinic with a modern twist to fill the void. The closure of Whitecross left behind a major gap in the health service provision for Ponsonby residents. Our well known doctors from White Cross Ponsonby felt an obligation to continue serving the community but in an inspired new capacity. Doctor360 is a medical clinic that specialises in delivering a 360 degree wrap-around service for patients. This ranges from urgent medical care, injuries and accidents, to specialist services such as, men’s health, skin clinics, cosmetic medicine and women’s health. It’s your one stop shop for all your medical needs. Who are the team and what are their specialities/services? Our team is led by Dr Rachel Lee, who is Doctor360’s clinical director. Rachel has a special interest in skin health and appearance medicine, and has years of surgical experience in plastic and reconstructive surgery. She performs full body skin checks and dermatoscopy and minor skin surgery for skin cancers, moles, cysts and skin tags. Dr Afraz Adam is an urgent care physician and is well known amongst patients and the medical community in Ponsonby. He helped steer White Cross Ponsonby for many years prior to its closure in October last year. Afraz runs mens’ health clinics at Doctor360 and his areas of interest are sexual dysfunction, hair regrowth, sleep optimisation, medicinal cannabis and weight loss. He is an advocate for improving physical and mental fortitude through sound nutritional health and supplements. Dr Lucien Paul-Robie is also well known among Ponsonby residents. Lucien is well known for the excellent work and medical care that he provides. His special interests are best practice injury management. We also have two new doctors joining our team soon. Dr Bryan Chong is an occupational health physician and will be running concussion clinics. Bryan is proficient in the use of the Eye BOX scan, the world’s only objective screening device for the assessment of head injuries. He is also licensed to conduct medical screening for driver’s licenses, pilot medicals, preemployment processes and divers’ medicals.
Dr Stephanie Tovey has been a GP in Central Auckland for the past three years. Stephanie will be offering consults covering all aspects of women’s health. This includes general women’s health concerns, sexual health and STIs, contraception and fertility advice, insertion and removal of jadelles (rod implants) and IUDs (intrauterine contraceptive devices), early pregnancy care and menopause management. Do you need to make an appointment? Our mission is to keep our waiting times to a minimum at any given time of the day, therefore appointments are strongly recommended. We are also happy to take walk-ins but these are subject to doctor’s availability. Our men’s health and skin checks are extremely popular services and these get booked out weeks in advance; appointments are necessary for our speciality services. Plans for the future? Our vision is to be a one stop shop for all our communities health needs. We aspire to be a boutique medical center; one that will house every medical speciality you can think of, all under one roof. We are also partnering up with a team of GPs to establish a brand new General Practice and Urgent Care Clinic at 582 K’Rd in April 2021. Watch the space! Anything else you might like to tell us? We’ve established a later closing time to make it easier for Ponsonby residents who work the typical 8am - 5pm workday schedule. In Ponsonby, most GP services are no longer available after 5pm, so our team has committed to providing after-hours care for our local population. We are open six days a week, Monday - Friday from 9.00am until 7.00pm and Saturdays from 9.00am to 4.00pm. DOCTOR360, 187 Ponsonby Road, T: 09 378 1305, www.dr360.nz
ADDRESS
HOURS
187 Ponsonby Road
Mon - Friday 9am - 7pm
CONTACT
Sat - Sun 9am - 4pm
09 378 1305 • info@dr360.nz • www.dr360.nz Minds that cure. Hearts that care. Our specialty is YOU.
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