Meet the team
At Livingston Medical, our staff members are more than just healthcare providers; they are compassionate individuals dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of our community. Each team member brings a unique set of skills and expertise, ensuring comprehensive care for all our patients.
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GP Surgeon, FACRRM, AST Emergency Medicine, MBBS(Hons), BSc(Hons), HNDip, PC & PDip Skin Cancer, Proceduralist
Dr. Livingston is a Rural Generalist. He is a recognised proceduralist with qualifications in Surgery and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Livingston has undertaken an additional Diploma in Skin Cancer Medicine and completed courses in ultrasound guided procedures, aesthetic medicine as well as teaching students and registrars across Australia in rural generalist training and emergency medicine.
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MBBS(Hons), BSc(Hons), DCH – FRACGP
Dr. Paget is an Australian trained doctor who qualified in 2015 and has lots of experience working in emergency departments in Perth. Dr. Paget is a fully qualified Rural Generalist with a lot of Emergency medicine experince and skin procedures skills. Her special interests are children’s health, women’s health, addiction medicine and mental health.
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Dr. Ines is what you would call a citizen of the world. Born in Portugal, trained in England and now a proud Australian Citizen. She has special interest in Women’s health, having worked for many years in female-only clinics. She also loves looking after little ones and has 2 of her own to keep her on her toes. Outside of work, she is a bit of a foodie and believes sharing food is how love and community are built.
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MBChB(UK), FRACGP(Aus)
Dr. Brusasco (Dr. Ellie as she is affectionately known) has practiced women’s health for 15 years and visits several times per year to provide tailored women’s health and mental health consultations. All of Dr. Brusasco’s consults are government funded in order to facilitate women’s health in the country.
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MD, BSc, MSc- FRACGP
Dr. Menon is a rural generalist operating in Ravensthorpe, Hopetoun and Varley
Dr. Menon is very passionate about rural and remote medicine and is skilled in skin procedures, Emergency Medicine and General Practice. His special interests are broad and include sexual health, palliative care and mental health.
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Dr. Kelvin Gray is a proud Western Australian. He is an experienced Doctor with a background in emergency medicine. Prior to becoming a Doctor, Dr Gray spent 17 Years as an ambulance paramedic before going on to be a registered nurse for 8 years and the a Doctor. Dr Gray works in the Wheatbelt and also enjoys being the Doctor at horse racing events and training others in medical emergencies.
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Dr. Tim has lived in many places and looking for a change of pace. He is trained in the UK and Australia and now calls Australia home. He has a special interest in orthopaedics and skin cancer diagnosis and excision having completed multiple post-graduate courses. outside of work, he enjoys cycling and learning new languages.
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Dr. Bahari is originally from Malaysia and has been working in Queensland doing hospital rotations for one year.
Dr Bahari has a special interest in emergency care and obstetrics medicine.
Dr Bahari will be relocating with his wife Zinnierah, and children Putri and Irshad (“boy”).
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Dr Dolan graduated with honours from the University of Western Australia in 2008 and completed GP training in 2015. She has completed a Vocational Graduate Diploma in Women’s Health as well as a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Masters of Occupational and Environmental Health. She has interests in women’s health, mental health and public health. She has a varied work history including work in occupational health, homeless health, sexual health and in non-clinical roles.
Outside of work Irene enjoys spending time with her young family and is an enthusiastic but not particularly fast swimmer.’
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MBBS, FRACGP
Dr Weaver splits her time between General Practice, The emergency departments of Kojonup and Katanning, aged care and palliative care.
Dr Weaver has practiced rural medicine for over 16 years and won GP of the year in 2021.
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Dr. Shady, originally from Egypt, is a GP with 10 years of experience in the countryside of Western Australia and Queensland. His areas of interest include:
• Pediatrics
• Mental Health
•Occupational Medicine
• Integrative Medicine
. Chronic diseases
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MBBS FRACGP
Belinda grew up in the Wheatbelt town of Newdegate and completed her medical degree through the University of Western Australia in 2015. Following this she spent time at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Narrogin Hospital and Rockingham Hospital where she worked in various medical specialist and surgical rotations before obtaining Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2021.
Dr Crane enjoys every aspect of care in General Practice particularly Preventative Health, Chronic Disease Management, Pregnancy care and Women’s Health. She is certified to insert and remove Implanon™️ and IUD devices (Mirena™️ and Copper) and has experience performing skin biopsies and removing suspect spots.
Her easy-going and down to earth nature sees her personally connect with people, and instantly putting patients at ease with her compassionate, honest and comprehensive care.
In her spare time Belinda enjoys gardening, reading but mostly looking after her 2 young children.
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Dr Michelle Musca was born and raised in Perth, and completed her medical degree at the University of Western Australia in 2008, graduating with Honours.
As a junior doctor, she spent several years travelling to rural and remote areas of Australia, during which time she met her now husband, Ben, working as an Emergency nurse in a small community hospital in North West Tasmania. The two spent a year travelling Australia in a caravan, picking up hospital work in country towns along the way. They then settled in Tasmania where Michelle undertook four years of General Practice training. During this time she worked a lot in the mental health space and in particular with adolescents and young people. She then returned to her hometown of Perth where she worked in a variety of roles in the General Practice setting including alongside a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician, assessing and managing children with autism, ADHD and mental health conditions.
Michelle's true passion is in treating and preventing disease using a dietary and lifestyle approach. She has run several successful community lifestyle intervention programs and healthy cooking classes aimed at reversing obesity, diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease. She is a certified Metabolic Balance Practitioner and has coached over 80 clients through a 12 week individual nutrition program to lose weight and reverse chronic inflammation. Michelle continues to further her study in lifestyle approaches to wellness through the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM), having been awarded a scholarship by ACNEM Founder Professor Ian Brighthorpe in 2021. She has a keen interest not in simply treating disease, but in promoting ultra-wellness and increased longevity.
Dr Michelle has spent the last three years working in a FIFO capacity in an Aboriginal Health Service in South Hedland and is also an authorised prescriber for medicinal cannabis. She looks forward to getting to know the local community, as well as welcoming a change in scenery and the chance to get closer to nature with her husband and four young children.
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Dr Rebecca Udani graduated from the University of Manchester in 2006 and has been working as a GP in England prior to moving across the world to work in Australia. Dr Udani has spent 8 years perfecting her skills in minor surgery ( including removal of moles, skin tags, cysts and ingrowing toe nails). She offers alternative pain relief procedures including joint injections for conditions such as arthritis and tendonitis. Dr Udani has a special interest in woman’s health and has completed the Diploma of the Faculty of Family planning and Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists whilst in the UK. She is able to offer family planning advice and implant insertion and removals. She has a wealth of experience dealing with mental health and paediatric patients. Dr Udani prides herself on having exceptional listening and communication skills and these attributes give her and her patients greater satisfaction and adds to her all-round holistic care. Dr Udani loves travelling with her husband and 3 young children and is happy to spread the excitement of life and adventure to anyone she meets.
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Dr Olga Ward is a highly experienced GP Surgeon and operates in hospitals all over the Wheatbelt and Country Australia.
Dr Ward visits the Narembeen Practice monthly and performs surgery for all of our patients in multiple WACHS hospitals
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Dr West graduated from Sheffield University, UK in 1993.
Brian initially trained in surgery with a special interest in ENT and went on to become a GP in 2001.
Dr West and his family relocated to Australia in 2008, initially working in Perth before relocating to Melbourne. Dr West has advanced skills in skin cancer medicine and has a long history of working in skin cancer clinics. Dr West will also be providing services at the local Gnowangerup hospital and in conjunction with Dr Makar and Dr Livingston will be running Aboriginal Health clinics in multiple towns.
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Dr Haines has been visiting the wheatbelt and offering women's health, mental health and procedural work for many years
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Dr Alain Mackie is an experienced Rural Generalist with special interests in emergency medicine and chronic disease management