CORE SPECIALIST GROUP - Key Persons
Amanda Clark is a Gold Coast-based accredited dietitian and specialises in an essential discipline to help obesity patients achieve and maintain significant weight loss.
Amanda is passionate about educating patients on their physical capabilities post-surgery. By providing an understanding of how making small, consistently healthy choices contributes to overall results, healthy habits are formed based on an individual's lifestyle and capacity for change.
Dr Anna Isaacs specialises in upper Gi surgery, including hiatus hernia repair, anti-reflux surgery and metabolic surgery as well as the treatment of gastric cancer. She also performs general surgical operations including cholecystectomy, hernia repair and endoscopy, as well as acute general surgical management.
Dr Candice Silverman specialises in general, laparoscopic, and robotic surgery.
Her main areas of interest are upper-gastrointestinal surgery, hepato-pancreatic biliary surgery, hernia surgery, and bariatric (weight loss) surgery.
Job Titles:
- Local General Practitioner
Dr Shannon Butler has been a local general practitioner for over ten years since graduating in 2008.
She specialised in weight loss and promotes healthy living. Shannon sees obesity as a medical issue, not a choice. She believes in a personalised, long-term approach to weight loss.
Jenne Turner is an Australian registered psychologist at Core Specialist Group. She has a Master's degree in rehabilitation. Jenne is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the Eating, Weight and Body Image special interest group. Jenne predominately works in weight management and specifically bariatric weight management.
Job Titles:
- Medical Centre Tugun ( Head
Lorraine is a clinical psychologist who has over 30 years' experience working in the areas of physical and psychological health. She has worked as a registered nurse within the public and private health sectors for some 20 years working with physical and psychological illness. Over the past 10 years Lorraine has specialised in clinical and health psychology.
Wendy Borislavsky is a trained educator and clinical psychologist at Core Specialist Group. Based on the Gold Coast, Wendy has a keen professional interest in the fields of bariatric surgery and adult chronic pain management.