Gynaecologist
Dr. Mairi Wallace
Director of Western Hills Clinic
MB ChB 1989 Stellenbosch; FCOG (SA) 1999; MMed (O&G) 1999 Stellenbosch; FRANZCOG 2004
Dr Mairi Wallace provides out-patient procedures at Western Hills Clinic and performs surgery at Kensington Hospital.
Mairi is a gynaecologist with a sub-specialist interest in urogynaecology. Mairi is particularly interested in the quality of life issues often faced by women as they get older. These include not only menopausal symptoms and incontinence but also pelvic organ prolapse, sexual dysfunction and irregular or heavy periods. For many of these conditions she is able to provide both surgical and non surgical options of treatment.
Mairi graduated with MBChB from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She received her Part 1, MRCOG in Edinburg before returning to South Africa to complete her specialist training, receiving her FCOG and MMed (O&G)in 1999. Mairi has travelled and worked in different countries, including Scotland, South Africa, Sierra Leone and The Cook Islands.
Mairi worked as a specialist at National Women’s in Auckland from 2003 – 2015. Prior to this she worked in Paarl, South Africa, as the lead Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in a rural secondary hospital. In 2015 Mairi decided she needed a change of pace and better life work balance and moved to Northland.
Mairi is active in helping women of the Pacific. Together with other members of PSRH (Pacific Society for Reproductive Health) she has been involved in and run numerous suturing workshops for midwives and doctors. Ever since 2011 Mairi has made an annual trip to the Cook Islands to help women suffering from incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. Recently she and two other members of the team – Shelley Solomon, Pelvic Health physiotherapist, and Tina Kusser, Registered Nurse, plus Michael Kalkoff, Anaesthetist -have formed the Putiputi Charitable Trust. The aim of the trust is to continue to help women in The Pacific, and hopefully in time Northland.
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Interests
- Urogynaecology
- Vaginal Prolapse
- Incontinence
- Urodynamic studies
- Bladder pain
- Cystoscopy
- Menopause
- Heavy or irregular periods
- Pelvic and vaginal pain
Mairi is ACC accredited and thus able to help women with problems after traumatic childbirth, or complications from gynaecological surgery.
bookings and clinic times
There is someone on reception Monday to Friday. Repeat prescriptions and phone consultations happen during clinic hours, Wednesday to Friday.
Mairi does not see patients without a referral – this can be from your GP, another specialist, a physiotherapist, nurse, midwife or ACC representative. If your problem is too embarrassing to discuss with your GP please send me a brief email telling me what is wrong and I will arrange to see you, or refer you to an appropriate person.
Wednesdays – 9.30am-3.30pm
Thursdays – 2pm – 4.30pm
Fridays – 9.30am – 1pm
Full NZ Registration Date
2005
INTERNAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST
Dr Mark Kennedy
MB ChB 1981 Otago; FRACP 1987
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Interests
General Medicine: Complex and Multisystem Disease.
Cardiology: ECG, Echo, Exercise Test, Exercise Stress Echocardiography, Holter Monitor, Ambulatory BP Monitor, Synchronised Electrical Cardioversion, Coronary Artery Disease, Valvular Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac Dysrhythmia, Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension, Dyslipidaemia.
Respiratory: Bronchoscopy, Lung Function Tests, Spirometry, Pleural Aspiration and Biopsy, Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Nodule, Asthma, COPD, Emphysema, Cough, Interstitial Lung Disease, Bronchiectasis, Asbestos-Related Chest Disease, Sarcoidosis, Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Disease, Thromboembolic Disease, Pneumothorax, Respiratory Failure, Disordered Breathing.
Gastroenterology: Gastroscopy, Liver Biopsy, Peptic Ulcer Disease, Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease, Barrett’s Oesophagus, Helicobacter pylori, Coeliac Disease, Iron Deficiency, Anaemia, Haemochromatosis, Liver Disease, Fatty Liver, NASH, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Primary Biliary Cholangitis.
Rheumatology: Gout, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Giant Cell, Cranial or Temporal Arteritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia.
Endocrinology: Adrenal, Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease, Osteoporosis.
Neurology: Stroke/TIA, Cerebrovascular Disease, Headache, Migraine.
Renal: Hypertension, Renal Impairment.
Immigration Medical:
Title or Designation
Physician, Internal Medicine Specialist, Physician & Gastroscopy
Full NZ Registration Date
18 April 1983
Vocational Scope
Internal Medicine
GP Women’s Health
Dr Ee Ling Loo
MB BCh BAO (NUI) 2010, PG Dip Obstetrics and Medical Gynaecology (Otago), Dip Paed (Auckland), FRNZCGP
Ee Ling isa GP with a specialist interest in women’s health. Originally hailing from Malaysia, she obtained her medical degree from University College Dublin, Ireland in 2010. After starting her clinical training in Dublin, she subsequently moved to New Zealand with her husband in 2013. She rotated through various hospital specialties during which she obtained her postgraduate qualification in obstetrics and medical gynaecology.
She subsequently underwent further training to become a specialist General Practitioner, and loves to provide holistic care to her patients. In her practice she runs a women’s health specialist clinic dealing with various issues including but not limited to menopause and reproductive health, prolapse and incontinence, abnormal vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain. She also does outpatient gynaecological procedures and minor surgery.
She is a member of the Australasian Menopause Society and regularly attends regional and international conferences to keep up to date and ensure she delivers evidenced-based and quality healthcare.
Outside of work, she is a busy mother and taxi driver to her 3 boys and can often be found cooking up a storm in the kitchen.
Physiotherapy collaboration
Most good medical care involves teamwork. We all know the importance of nurses and doctors working together as well as how crucial it is for medical specialists to collaborate, particularly with complicated cases. The value of Pelvic health physiotherapy is however often overlooked. The muscles of the pelvic girdle, the pelvic floor and the major pelvic organs – bladder, bowel, uterus and vagina – are all dynamic and work both independently and in association with one another. Most people appreciate the importance of physiotherapy to help with either pain or poor function after surgery or an injury or even after a stroke or similar calamity. Pelvic health physiotherapy is however often overlooked or considered to be nothing more than “pelvic floor exercises”.
Mairi and Shelley appreciate the crucial role of a combined approach to many Gynaecological and Urological issues. Physiotherapy can help with urinary and bowel incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and pelvic and vaginal pain. Many of these conditions need both medical and physiotherapy input. All of Mairi’s patients needing surgery of the pelvic floor also receive physiotherapy. Mairi and Shelley also meet regularly to discuss complicated cases. With this shared approach to tricky problems, we feel we provide a better service and have better outcomes than if patients were seen in isolation.
For more information on pelvic health physiotherapy services in Northland please refer to the Freshstart Physiotherapy link
Freshstart PHYSIOTHERAPY Portal
Nurses
Tina KUSSER
Registered Nurse
Tina is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Urology with over a decade of experience, having begun her experience in Urology in Switzerland at the University Hospital in Zurich in 2011, with a focus on Urodynamics.
She holds postgraduate certificates in both Urodynamics and Radiology. After locating to New Zealand, she worked with Northland Urology and the District Health Board. Since 2022, she has been employed at Western Hills Clinic. She received training from Dr Mairi Wallace in vaginal pessary care and the insertion of oestrogen implants. Tina is also part of the team, that includes Mairi Wallace and Shelley Solomon, on their annual trip to the Cook Islands, where they run clinics and surgical lists for the management of urinary incontinence in women.
She is currently undertaking a postgraduate course in Continence Management at the University of Otago.
GEMMA RAWCLIFFE
Registered NursE
Gemma relocated to Whangārei from Wellington in 2022 and brings over 15 years of nursing experience to the team. She qualified as a Nurse in 2009 and is currently working towards her ‘Masters of Nursing’ through the University of Auckland.
With a diverse background spanning Women’s health, Fertility, Gynaecology, Emergency care, General Practice, and Cardiac Nursing. Gemma is passionate about providing high-quality, patient-centred care. She joined Western Hills in November 2024 and is committed to supporting the health and well-being of our patients .
Administrators
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