Meet the team

Dr Cordowiner graduated from Newcastle University in 1995 and completed her GP training at Women’s Care and Family Practice in 1999 (now known as Your Family Doctors). Her main areas of clinical interest are Women’s care, paediatrics, preventative health and chronic disease management . In addition to her work at the surgery, she works with Dr Bill Munro seeing patients post bariatric surgery. She has previously been on the Antenatal Shared Care Steering Committee and works at Bridges After Hours GP Service where she has been a board member in the past. She is a member of the HNECCPHN Clinical Read More

Dr. Page graduated from Sydney University and has been working on the Central Coast since 2002. She has many interests, particularly enjoying Women’s health, paediatrics, preventative health, and men’s health. Georgia is dedicated to the recruitment and training of future GPs. She is a medical educator for GP Synergy, regularly lecturing and supervising the GPs of tomorrow. She is an examiner for the RACGP (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) and on various committee's for the Primary Health Network. Georgia was awarded the 2022 GP Supervisor of the Year for the Hunter, Manning and Central Coast. Georgia provides on-call services Read More

Dr. Pethen arrived in Australia in 2008 having worked on the South Coast of the UK since 1996. She has been with this practice ever since. She is passionate about the art of General Practice as a whole, but particularly enjoys paediatrics, adolescent medicine, and chronic disease management. She is a regular at Kanwal Bridges After Hours and is doing sessions at Headspace, the young adult mental health service in Gosford, this year. She is also an examiner for the RACGP (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) and a GP supervisor. In her spare time, Sam can be found enthusiastically Read More

Dr Kristen Gibbes graduated from the University of Sydney in 2004, and moved to the Central Coast in 2006 to enjoy the beachside lifestyle with her young family. She worked in General Practice in Umina Beach until joining our practice in 2016. Kristen is particularly interested in women’s health, chronic disease management, geriatrics and palliative care. She is an accredited Registrar supervisor and is passionate about educating future GPs. In her spare time she loves running, swimming, camping and generally enjoying the great outdoors.

Dr King graduated from Sydney University and after hospital experience started work in general practice at Umina. Medical interests include chronic disease management, mental health and minor skin surgery. After 35 years at Umina he has joined Your Family Doctors at Erina and is enjoying working with the team. Outside medicine David enjoys sailing, gardening and trying to keep up with eleven grandchildren.

Dr. McDowell qualified in Sydney in 1986 and moved to the Central Coast seven years later. She has been at this practice since 2001. She is one of our Mirena inserters and is interested in contraception, management of menopause, and preventative health. Dr. McDowell does sessions at the Outreach Pap Smear Clinic at Wyong and provides on-call services for victims of sexual assault at Gosford Hospital. She has three children and enjoys playing tennis and netball.

Dr Sambell graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2011. She spent two years on the Central Coast as a junior doctor before moving to Tanzania, East Africa, where she volunteered in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics. She returned to Australia in 2016 and completed her GP training on the Mid North Coast before returning to the Central Coast in 2019.  Anna enjoys the continuity of care and breadth of scope that General Practice offers. Her special interests include antenatal care, women's health, paediatrics, chronic disease management and travel medicine.  Anna is also a busy Mum with two young girls and enjoys Read More

Dr Warren joined in 2015. She and her young family love the outdoors adventurous lifestyle on the Central Coast. Elly enjoys all facets of General Practice and has extra qualifications in Paediatrics, Palliative Care, Mental Health, Aboriginal Health and Skin Cancer. She works part-time as Medical Director of Central Coast Health @ Home at Gosford Hospital.  Elly holds many external advocacy roles for our patients including as Chair of the Central Coast GP Collaboration Panel. She is a GP Supervisor and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. Elly is a super keen cyclist and fundraises for cancer and Read More

Dr. Michael Little grew up in inner Sydney and completed degrees in history and psychology before graduating Medicine at the University of Sydney in 2013. He completed general hospital training and then worked for four years in obstetrics and gynaecology. He moved to the Central Coast in 2023 and worked at Toukley for 12 months before joining Your Family Doctors at Erina. He is a GP Registrar, with broad interests including women's health, chronic disease management and minor surgical procedures.

Dr Renée Pope is working as a GP registrar at Your Family Doctors. After growing up on the Central Coast she graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2019 and has worked across the Local Health District for the past 3 years including across Emergency and Critical Care Medicine. Prior to this she completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney (2013) and worked as a Clinical Pharmacist at both Gosford and Royal North Shore Hospitals. She has many developing interests including preventative care, chronic disease management and women and children’s health and is currently completing a Read More

Lynne has been nursing for over 30 years with experience in Emergency and Midwifery. For 15 years she has worked as a Child and Family Health Nurse and is passionate about helping families transition to parenthood with guidance and support for normal infant behaviour and development. She is an authorised nurse immuniser who has worked with the childhood immunisation mobile clinic program for 13 years. She moved into GP land a year ago and is enjoying being more involved in whole of life care.

Carolyn Ghosh, has been an experienced Emergency Nurse for over 20 years and has decided give General Practice nursing a go! Cassy is passionate about caring for patients across all ages especially our older population. Cassy looks forward to getting to know our lovely patients, and will be providing a broad range of care, including our over 75 Health Assessments.

Steph has over 20 years experience as a registered nurse working initially in anaesthetics and recovery. Steph made the refreshing change to General Practice nursing several years ago where she could care for her patients that were actually awake!  Steph loves the variety of general practice nursing, particularly the one of one contact with patients, doing care plans and health assessments, diabetes checks and immunisations. When not at work, Steph is out hiking, at the beach , bird watching and reading.