Your Team
Established 2015
MedAlliance was formed in 2015 by Dr. Chow and Dr. Law who have a vision of providing advanced comprehensive care for patients.
Cardiologists: A/Prof. David Prior, Dr. Wei Sim, Dr. Sophie Gettens,
A/Prof Kavitha Muthiah, Dr. Matthew Brooks and Dr. Jennifer Law.
Gastroenterologists: Dr. Lindsay Chow, Dr. Carlton Li,
Dr. Matthew Kim and Dr. Ryan Abraham.
General surgeon: Dr. Michael Kelly
Infectious Disease Physicians: Dr. Justin Jackson and Dr. John Burston
Mission
Vision
Values
- Integrity – We uphold the highest standards of ethics, honesty, and accountability in every interaction.
- Excellence – We strive for clinical accuracy, continuous improvement, and service excellence in all we do.
- Compassion – We treat every patient with empathy, respect, and personalised attention.
Dr. Lindsay Chow
Dr. Lindsay Chow is a gastroenterologist who obtained Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Hons) from the University of Melbourne in 1995 and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2002. He has been providing endoscopic and internal medicine services in regional NSW for fifteen years. Dr. Chow has admitting rights to Wagga Base Hospital, Wagga Endoscopy Centre, Albury Wodonga Health, Albury Day Surgery and Albury Wodonga Private Hospital.
Dr. Justin Jackson
Dr. Justin Jackson is an internal medicine and infectious disease consultant at Albury Wodonga Health and Border Cancer Centre. He is also a conjoint lecturer at the Rural Clinical School at University of New South Wales. His interests are antimicrobial stewardship, complex bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic illnesses such as tuberculosis, other mycobacterial infections and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection as well as special diagnostic dilemmas such as fever of unknown origin and fever in returned travellers.
Dr. John Burston
Dr John Burston is an infectious diseases and general physician at Albury-Wodonga Health and the Border Cancer Hospital and is able to provide a consultation service at Albury-Wodonga Private Hospital. He was raised in Albury and graduated from UNSW Medicine in 2008. He worked in Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle before returning to Albury-Wodonga in 2020 with his young family. Dr Burston has broad interests in infectious diseases including antimicrobial stewardship, diagnostic challenges, infections in immunocompromised hosts and medical education.
Michael D Kelly
Michael D Kelly (MB BS hons. 1, MS, FRACS, FRCS (Eng.)
Dr. Wei Sim
Dr Sim is a general and interventional cardiologist . He holds a public appointment at Albury Wodonga Health Service where he runs the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory, as well as an honorary appointment at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. Originally from Malaysia, he graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland before completing his cardiology specialist training in Perth, Western Australia. He later undertook subspeciality training in Interventional Cardiology at the Northern Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital.
Dr Sim has interest in all aspects of cardiology including management of coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, heart failure and arrhythmias.
Our Visiting Doctors
Dr. Kavitha Muthiah
Dr Muthiah was awarded her medical degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2003. Her Advanced Training in Cardiology was completed at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. This was followed by successful postgraduate PhD study in heart failure and ventricular assist devices at the University of New South Wales from research work undertaken at both St. Vincent’s Hospital and The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
She has won several scholarships from both the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) and travel awards from the National Heart Foundation for research presented at international conferences. Dr Muthiah is well-published in the field of heart failure and mechanical assist devices and has peer-reviewed on behalf of specialist journals.
Dr Muthiah’s clinical skills were further honed at King’s College Hospital and Bart’s Heart Centre in London (UK) with subspecialty fellowships focusing on cardiac imaging and congenital heart disease respectively.
Her specialist interests also centre around heart failure and she is currently part of the specialist heart failure team at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
Dr. Matthew Brooks
Dr. Matthew Brooks completed his medical training at The University of Melbourne followed by specialist cardiology and interventional training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. He undertook two further fellowships at The Edinburgh Heart Centre and Copenhagen University Hospital with a focus on complex percutaneous coronary intervention and structural heart disease intervention.
He is a consultant cardiologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and also practices at Melbourne Private and John Fawkner Private Hospitals.
His expertise is in complex percutaneous coronary artery intervention (including chronic total occlusions, left main PCI and rotational atherectomy) and structural heart disease intervention (including transcatheter aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair/replacement, percutaneous left atrial appendage closure, device closure of interatrial defects, and paravalvular leak closure).
Dr. David Prior
Associate Professor David Prior is Director of Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and Head of the Cardiology & Heart Failure Outpatient Clinics. In addition he is an Associate Professor with the University of Melbourne and a Clinical Research Fellow at the St Vincent’s Institute.
His advanced cardiology training was undertaken at the Alfred Hospital and included training in Heart Failure and Transplantation. He then completed a PhD at the Baker Heart Research Institute and Alfred Hospital examining abnormal vascular function in heart failure. After undertaking an Advanced Fellowship in Echocardiography at The Cleveland Clinic between 1998 and 2000, Dr Prior returned to Melbourne in 2000 to take up a position at St Vincent’s Hospital. Major clinical and research interests are in echocardiography, pulmonary hypertension, sports cardiology and heart failure management.
Dr. Jennifer Law
Dr. Carlton Li
Dr. Matthew Kim
Dr. Ryan Abraham