The Doctors Whakatipu - Frankton

The friendly face on reception as administrator for over 7 years, arrived in Queenstown in 2009 in her early 20s. 

She has used every opportunity to educate herself, studying finance and business, earning herself a Diploma in Money Management, Hotel Management and Mental Health, and a diploma in interpretation to Portuguese, specialising in health care, ethical challenges, mental health during covid, migration matters and working with police. Fabi is currently studying health science and loves getting out in the outdoors. She won two categories in the Spirit of Wakatipu Awards 2019 – Health and Wellbeing and the People’s Choice Award and is an active member of the church who loves helping our community. 

Marcia has been based in the area for almost 2 decades and at least 10 of those in clinical administration. She has a varied background including having an online retail business for 7 years and commercial underwriting overseas. She enjoys spending time with family & friends and all the great things the beautiful area has to offer, and of course working with the great team here.

Anne is another of our nurses originally from the area. She has post grad qualifications in Cardiology/Cardiothoracic Nursing and Health Management. After 18 years living and travelling overseas as expatriates and family grown up, she returned to settle back in Queenstown. Anne has expertise in travel medicine, women’s health, child and family health and cardiology. When she is not working her interests lie in outdoor activities, skiing, mountain biking, hiking and more recently golf.

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Hannah is originally from Durham in the UK where she studied English literature, business, psychology and science before moving to New Zealand to live in the mountains at the beginning of 2020. She loves the wide variety the general practice brings, working in a small and fantastic team! In her spare time you will find her skiing, tramping or road tripping to explore new places.

Starting on the general ward at Bay of Islands Hospital, Alex then worked as a district nurse prior to moving south to Queenstown. She enjoys the variety that practice nursing offers and has a keen interest in wounds and working with the elderly. Being new to Queenstown Alex and her husband are enjoying the many walks and stunning scenery that makes this region so amazing. They have two adult sons and a menagerie of animals that bring them great joy!

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Val grew up in Auckland and trained at Auckland Medical School then came to Queenstown as a locum 40 years ago and never left. She thoroughly enjoys general practice however her particular specialty areas are: women’s health (including gynaecology and menopause); sports medicine; dermatology-skin lesion diagnoses and removals and any minor surgery.

She has 2 adult children who grew up in Queenstown and now live elsewhere. She is a keen skier and loves the region. Val has recently done 2 terms on the QLDC as elected representative, “my community service” and has learnt a lot about local government.

Lily completed her nursing training in the UK where she worked for the NHS on a busy Surgical Assessment Unit in Bristol. Her love of travel brought her to New Zealand in 2020 and she has since settled here in Queenstown. Lily loves the rewarding nature of the job and cares for every patient with a friendly smile and sense of humour. Lily loves chatting to and getting to know her patients and their families. You’ll find Lily mostly working in our Frankton practice on Tuesdays and Fridays. She also works at the new Southern Cross Central Lakes Hospital so you may see her there too! Outside of work you’ll find Lily hiking or travelling the South Island in her campervan with her Fiancé Liam!

Anna, originally from Brisbane, has lived in Queenstown for over 10 years, now with her young family. She has a background in general medical and emergency nursing, Anna has an interest in women and children’s health as well as wound care. In her spare time, Anna enjoys the outdoors, going for walks, bike rides, standup paddle boarding and winter sports.

Andie is a very keen sportswoman and has competed in multiple Ironman triathlons, adventure racing and ultra endurance bikepacking, having left us one winter to race the length of the Rockies from Canada to the Mexican border. She now attempts to fit these feats around her young family. She has a post graduate qualification in travel medicine and a strong interest in womens sports health, but ultimately likes to be an all-rounder in her Nursing practice. 

Mairi joined the practice early 2022 after working in various senior management business roles during her career. Mairi’s focus is to ensure the smooth operations and strategic direction of the practice.  She is passionate about ensuring The Doctors Whakatipu is a place where staff are proud to work and patients have the best experience and service.

Originally from Scotland, Mairi loves the outdoor lifestyle of NZ and has been in Queenstown for 12 years loving the biking, hiking, skiing and amazing facilities on our doorstep.

Jo is originally from Glasgow, where she went to Medical School before venturing overseas. She spent time in NZ in the early 2000s, which led to her permanent move here in 2006. After living in Invercargill for ten years, like a lot of Southlanders she migrated north to the snowy peaks of Queenstown where she worked at Lakes District Hospital for three years before moving to primary care. Jo has a particular interests in all areas of adult general medicine.

Outside of work Jo enjoys walking on the awesome tracks around Queenstown and Arrowtown, skis (badly) and despite her husband's best efforts strongly dislikes all forms of cycling.

Duncan was a partner in a semi-rural practice in Helensville for 13 years before working as a GP and partner in the NHS in Scotland for nearly 18 years. He has a plausible claim to be a local as his father was from Otago although he grew up in Wellington and Nelson before attending medical school in Auckland. He enjoys minor surgery and supervising medical students, he has further training in dermatology, and has a longstanding interest in diabetes.

Olivia has a wealth of knowledge as is a friendly face around our practice. She has recently completed her post graduate nurse prescribing diploma and played a big part in the covid vaccination rollout. Her favourite aspect of nursing is empowering people to take control of their health with education and working with amazing people. She feels incredibly lucky to work in an area where she is inspired by the patients and the families she works with. Originally from the Waikato, Olivia is enjoying all Queenstown has to offer including mountain biking and camping.

Dr Kim graduated from Birmingham Medical School in 2002 with a Royal Air Force scholarship. She served with the British Military as a Medical Officer and completed her GP training in Scotland. She moved to New Zealand in 2009 and spent 12 years living and practising in the Hutt Valley. She loves cycling and is a former New Zealand representative cyclist and was the World 24 Hour MTB Champion in 2014. She is married with two boys aged 4 and 2.