Meet The Administration Team
With booking, greeting, arriving, assessing, messaging, farewelling and more we keep things running!
Robin Dean Practice Administrator
Robin has been with us from the beginning and encourages an ecofriendly practice.
DR CAROLYN RICHARDS OWNER
After moving to Mandurah in the late '90s, she started Metceni Health in 2005. She chose to retire from clinical work in 2015, for medical reasons. Now she works in management and provides photos for the walls.
BEC - RECEPTIONIST
Bec is always a friendly face at the front desk who balances caring for her family and dog and caring for our patients. Having been at the practice quite a few years she knows many of our regulars.
KERRIE - RECEPTIONIST
Kerry likes to keep herself warm and maintain a warm and happy atmosphere for patients! She also knows many of our patients and their special needs!
EZRA - RECEPTIONIST
Ezra has close links with one of the other team members and is our youngest member. He is maintaining our gender diversity whilst deciding whether this is where he wants to stay or whether to branch out.
Our Nurses
Measuring, informing, treating, advising and calming are just some of what we do.
Irene
Irene enjoys the GP setting at Metceni but also works with patients in their homes in another role. She creates a caring environment.
chris
As well as working with patients, Chris enjoys getting about in Australia. She never looks stressed but understands how stressful being sick can be.
Kim
Our younger nurse has the joy of balancing a family with work! Luckily she enjoys her work and helping others.
The caring doctors
Listening, asking, investigating, diagnosing, explaining and suggesting are just the start.
dr elveyna d'couto
Enjoys reading, watching the latest movies and is a big Netflix fan. She loves spending the weekends going for long drives to the country with her family and dog Mika. More ....
dr sam fazio
MBBS (Hons) FRACGP, BSc(Hons) Dr Fazio has been working 8 years in General Practice around Perth and Mandurah. He studied medicine locally at UWA and more...
dr colin chin
bMed, MD (UNSW), FRACGP Colin graduated from the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2014 and has completed 3 years of hospital training in Joondalup Health Campus, more...
dr paul spedding
MBChB, AMC, FRACGP ‘Dr Paul’ is from Wigan, Lancashire, England. Graduated from University of Leicester 2003, he worked in Surgery in the UK before moving to Australia more...
dr deepika perera
SPECIALIST PRACTITIONERS
Currently we have a visiting rheumatologist (one day a week), who works long hours everywhere trying to meet the needs of the arthritic joint owners. Rheumatologists also manage automimmune disorders and inflammatory arthritis. Dr Berhane helps with these and more!
DR TAFERE BERHANE - RHEUMATOLOGIST
Taf graduated from the Medical faculty of Addis Ababa University, in 1987. He worked in the Hansenian welfare organisation with active involvement at the National Leprosy Control Program and as a resident of internal medicine. more...