Our Team | Launceston Women's Health Clinic

Our all-female team

Dr. Sue Mallett – Clinical Director

Dr. Sue Mallett

Sue spent her childhood on Guernsey in the Channel Islands before moving to England with her family. She studied medicine at The University of Sheffield and first came out to Tasmania on a working holiday. She spent time at the North West Regional Hospital working in the gynaecology and paediatrics departments, before doing GP locums in the north west of the state. For many years home has been the Tamar Valley where she has worked as a GP and raised her family.

Women’s health has always been a special interest of Sue’s and for many years she has worked at Family Planning Tasmania. For five years Sue was the Statewide Medical Director of Family Planning Tasmania, during this time she was able to advocate for women and their unique health needs and to mentor the clinic staff as well as providing education to doctors from around the state on many aspects of women’s health.

Sue is excited to bring her skills to be part of the team in the new Launceston Women’s Health Clinic, a place where women are listened to and seen within the context of their unique life circumstances.

Outside of work Sue enjoys bushwalking and travel as well as spending time with her family and friends.

Kath Hinde – Manager of Clinical Services

Kath Hinde

Dr. Katrina Tellesson

Dr. Katrina Tellesson graduated from the University of Melbourne before specialising in general practice on the north west coast of Tasmania. Her interest areas are preventative health, family planning and sexual health.

Dr. Tellesson now calls Launceston home, balancing her working week between Launceston Women’s Health Clinic and the Launceston Medical Centre.

Dr Catrina Leesong

BMBS FRACGP DRANZCOG

Catrina grew up in the mid north of South Australia. She studied medicine at Flinders University in Adelaide before moving to Darwin for her internship. Her next stop was Gosford in NSW where she completed a Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology having already identified women’s health as a key area of interest.

She embarked on GP training in Victoria and ended up practising in the small rural township of Foster for seven years where she provided obstetric services at the local hospital. Catrina and her family, which by then included a husband and three children, moved to Tasmania fifteen years ago. She has divided her clinical time between general practice and the Launceston General hospital where she has been doing antenatal and contraception clinics.

Catrina is very excited to join the team at Launceston Women’s Health Clinic and provide care for a woman’s sexual and reproductive health, including contraception and sexual health, pre-conception and antenatal care and menopause management.

During her spare time Catrina enjoys cooking reading, travel and walking.

Dr Elizabeth Lord

Dr Elizabeth Lord grew up in Northern Tasmania and has worked in practices in Melbourne, regional Victoria and most recently Hobart. We are lucky she has moved to the best part of Tassie and brings her special interest in women’s health.

Liz provides care for a woman’s sexual and reproductive health, including contraception and sexual health, pre-conception and menopause management.

Dr Sara Freshney

Dr Freshney graduated from Leicester University in the UK and has worked in general practice for 8 years and relocated from the UK in 2021 with her young family.

She has a special interest in Women’s and sexual health and has recently completed the FPAA National Certificate in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Her interests include contraception, sexual health, period and bleeding problems, cervical screening tests and the menopause.

Dr Sujana Nepal

Dr Sujana Nepal grew up in Nepal, graduated medicine in Bangladesh, and moved to Australia in 2009 where she works as a GP. She has a special interest all aspects of women’s health and in 2019 completed the FPAA Certificate for Doctors in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Sujana has appointments available on a Tuesday morning.

Dr Nicola Kuhn

Dr Nicola Kuhn is originally from Germany and completed her medical degree at the WWU Münster. She moved to Tasmania in 2014 and has worked in various areas at the Launceston General Hospital and completed a diploma in both, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and in Paediatrics, before commencing her career in General Practice in 2020.

She has been working as a GP at Norwood Medical for the past 18 months and is looking forward to focussing on her special interest in women’s health working with the team at Launceston Women’s Health Clinic.

Outside of work she enjoys bushwalking, music and spending time with her young family.

Dr. Alice Downie

MBBS (Hons), FRACGP, BMedSci, DRANZCOG, Winston Churchill Fellow

Dr Alice Downie is passionate about women’s health care. She has trained in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Launceston General Hospital and the Royal Women’s Hospital in Victoria. She graduated from UTAS in 2006, and then did residency at the LGH, Alfred Hospital and Royal Women’s hospitals. She has many years of general practice experience in Victoria and Tasmania.

Dr Alice Downie offers the full range of services from contraception, IUD insertions, sexual health consulting, pelvic pain, and antenatal shared care. She works on a Thursday morning.

Other positions held are GP at the Norwood Medical Centre and surgical assistant at St Vincent’s Calvary Hospital. She has three children and outside of medicine she enjoys bike riding, music, and cooking.

We are committed to providing multidisciplinary care by working with our allied health colleagues where possible, to provide the best outcomes for women. The allied health professionals we work with have a special interest in women’s health and include:

Physiotherapy
Psychology
Exercise physiology
Nutrition
Pharmacy
Telehealth with intrastate and interstate specialists

We also collaborate with the following women’s health services:

Women’s Health Tasmania
Jean Hailes for Women’s Health
Continence Foundation of Australia
Australasian Menopause Society
Breast Screen Tasmania
National Cervical Screening Program
Fertility Tasmania
Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia
Marie Stopes Australia