Haematology
How We Can Help You
We care for people with cancerous and non-cancerous blood disorders. These include:
- Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
- Leukaemias – acute and chronic
- Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders
- Myeloproliferative disorders such as polycythemia rubra vera and essential thrombocythaemia
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Anaemias
- Thalassemia, sickle cell diseases, and other haemoglobinopathies
- Venous thrombosis such as DVT, Pulmonary Emboli and other clots
- Bleeding disorders such as Haemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease, platelet disorders
- Iron deficiency anaemia, and iron-loading syndromes
- Blood count abnormalities
Our services are for those staying in our Hospital as well as those living in the community.
For those who need to stay in Hospital, we have a ward located on Level 7B of the Acute Services Building at St George Hospital. Here we can provide chemotherapy and support if you have blood cancer. Chemotherapy is when we give you medicines that destroy cancer cells. We can also provide you high dose high dose chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (transplant of your own stem cells).
We provide treatments for people living in the community through our Haematology Oncology Day Centre. This is located on in the Cancer Care Centre at St George Hospital. Senior nursing staff liaise with specialist Doctors (Haematologists) to provide patients with day chemotherapy regimens, infusions, patient education, apheresis (removal of parts of your blood) and blood product support. We also provide support through the Ambulatory Care Unit.
The Centre also provides adult apheresis services to the St George hospital campus, and can collect and store Haematopoietic Stem Cells for the use in Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation.
Our Cancer Outreach Program can provide support to patients with malignant blood cancers in their homes.
St George Hospital also has a very active Clinical Trials Unit offering patients opportunities to access cutting edge therapies as part of either local or international Clinical Trials for both malignant and benign conditions.
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
-33.9686313, 151.1350281
Our Physicians:
Dr Xavier Badoux |
Prof Beng Chong |
Dr Shir-Jing Ho |
Rr Amanda Hugman |
Dr Szu-Hee Lee |
Dr Qin Liu |
Dr Sundra Ramanathan |
Dr Fernando Roncolato |
Dr Charles Shuttleworth |
Dr Silvia Zheng |
Our Specialised Nurses
Clinical Nurse Consultant Haematology | Jo-Ann Cryer |
Clinical Nurse Consultant Apheresis and Transplantation | Nicola Henderson |
Clinical Nurse Consultant Blood and Blood Products | Samantha Connelly |
Cancer Outreach Program / COP |
Anna Ayoub and Desiree Blicharz |
Clinical Nurse Educator | Phoebe Forrester |
Clinical Nurse Consultant CANShare | Jeremy Chow |
Acting HODC Nurse Unit Manager | Catherine Brennan |
Acting 7B Haematology Nurse Unit Manager | Cameron Scott |
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will send you a confirmation appointment letter or message, which will tell you where your appointment is located and what information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on:
- Prince William Wing (Professor Chong, Dr Hugman, Dr Liu, Dr Zheng): 9113 2513
- Cancer Care Centre (Drs Badoux, Ho, Ramanathan, Roncolato, Shuttleworth): 9113 3943
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the waiting area
Please let us know if you need an interpreter.
You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will not impact in any way on the services we will provide.
Phone
(02) 9113 3851 or 9113 2692
Cancer Care Centre
(02) 9113 3909
Outpatients Department
(02) 9113 2513
Fax
(02) 9113 3958
Email
SESLHD-St-George-Haematology-Secretaries@health.nsw.gov.au
SESLHD-STGCancerCare@health.nsw.gov.au
Head of Department
Dr Shir-Jing Ho
HODC Nurse Unit Manager
Catherine Brennan
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
Inpatient Ward: Level 7B, Acute Services Building, St George Hospital
Haematology Oncology Day Centre (HODC): Cancer Care Centre, St George Hospital. Entrance via Chapel Street or via the corridor to the left of the main Entrance of St George Hospital, off Gray Street, Kogarah NSW 2217
Respiratory and Sleep Department
How We Can Help You
Our Adult Outpatient Department provides outpatient appointments with Specialist Doctors, Allied Health Professionals along with a Respiratory Laboratory for a full range of lung function testing.
You can use our services if you have been referred from the Emergency Department, a General Practitioner (GP) or Specialty Doctor.
Our team includes:
- Doctors who will assess, treat and help you manage your medical condition
- Clinical Nurse Consultants to assess and assist in specialty clinics such as respiratory failure and severe asthma
- Administration Staff who will help you organise your appointments, inform you about what will happen and answer any questions you may have
Ground Floor, Prince William Wing
Corner of Kensington Street & Belgrave Street
KOGARAH NSW 2217
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday:
8.00 am - 4.30 pm
-33.966217359122, 151.13395657142
Our Physicians:
Respiratory Physicians:
- Dr Veronica Yozghatlian
- Dr Alexandra Smith
- Dr Steven Lindstrom
- Dr Ajantha Raguparan
- Dr Yizhong Zheng
- Dr Nicole Hersch
- Dr Emily Liu
- Dr Fedil Metti
- Dr Frank Yan
Sleep Physicians:
- Dr Andrew Ng
- Dr Eric Wong
- Dr Johnny Siu
- Dr Titus Auyeung
- Dr Philip Lee
Our Specialised Nurses:
Mary Dunford, Clinical Nurse Consultant
Candice Ye, Clinical Nurse Consultant
You will need a referral letter from your local GP or Specialty Doctor to use this service. Please ask them to write you a referral letter explaining your medical history, relevant test results, imaging results and what medicines you are taking.
We will then send you a letter in the post with the details of your appointment date, time and location. If an appointment cannot be made, we will send you a letter confirming that you are on the outpatient waiting list for the next available appointment. Please let us know if your address and/or phone number changes.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please telephone (02) 9113 2325.
- Current Medicare Card or Veteran Affairs Card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your Private Health Fund Membership Card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-Rays or Medical Images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords
Please let us know if you need an interpreter.
You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will not impact in any way on the services we will provide.
Phone: (02) 9113 2325
Fax: (02) 9113 2570
Email:
SESLHD-STG-RespiratoryandSleep@health.nsw.gov.au
Street address:
Ground Floor, Prince William Wing
Kensington Street
Kogarah NSW 2217
Head of Department: Dr Veronica Yozghatlian
Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 4.30 pm
St George Hospital
Ground Floor, Prince William Wing
Corner of Kensington Street & Belgrave Street
KOGARAH NSW 2217
Paediatrics Department
Welcome to St George Paediatrics
We provide high-quality paediatric specialist healthcare for the infants, children and young people of our local community.
Outpatient Clinics
If your child needs an urgent medical review it is important to visit a general practitioner [GP] within working hours.
For true emergencies after hours please dial 000 or attend the paediatric emergency department.
New Referrals
You must have a GP referral to access our clinics.
We prefer online referrals to ensure your referral is triaged in a timely fashion.
You can email us a detailed referral letter directly.
New referrals will are triaged within 10 working days. We prioritise urgent cases however in general the clinics are very full.
Please be aware there may be a delay of up to several months before you are offered an appointment.
St George paediatrics offers both in-person and Tele-health consultations.
If you believe we have misunderstood the complexity or urgency of your child’s appointment please contact us by email on SESLHD-STGPAEDIATRICS@health.nsw.gov.au
Request a Script
Many scripts can be written by your GP.
For specialist medications, if your child has been seen in the St George Paediatric Outpatient Clinic in the past 12 months, please click the CONTACT US link below and fill in the form.

St George Hospital
Gray Street, KOGARAH
NSW 2217
We prefer email contact so that we can reply as quickly as possible.
By using the link below you can contact us reliably at any time.
-33.9671271, 151.1339959

For any questions please contact us here at any time.

Please allow at least one week for script requests

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Dermatology Department
Dermatologists are specialist medical doctors who provide care and treatment for skin, hair and nail diseases.
Prince William Wing,
St George Public Hospital
Clinic Location:
Ground Floor, Outpatient Department,
Prince William Wing, St George Hospital
Operating Hours:
Monday to Friday 8am to 4:30pm
Dermatology Department Enquiries, please contact the Dermatology Department on:
Phone: 9113 2543
Fax: 02 9113 2906.
-33.9676303, 151.1334852
Professor Murrell is Head of the Dermatology Department at St George Hospital since 2004. Professor Murrell graduated from Oxford University Medical School and trained in medicine and dermatology in the UK and USA as well as in Sydney. She holds doctorates from UNSW and Oxford Universities for her research.
Professor Murrell runs a clinical trial centre for skin diseases and lectures globally on autoimmune and genetic skin diseases.
Dr Lara-Rivero is an overseas-trained Dermatologist fully qualified by the Australasian College of Dermatologists and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency who works as a consultant dermatologist in private practices across Sydney and the public practice is based in St George Hospital. He is involved in educational activities for medical students, overseas-trained dermatologists and post-graduate medical officers.
Dr Lara-Rivero has published articles in local and international peer-reviewed journals and has also presented at local meetings for fellow dermatologists and GPs. His areas of interest include medical dermatology, urticaria, eczema, contact dermatitis and patch testing, and male genital dermatology.
Wednesday Afternoon: 13.00 - 16.00 (a paediatric dermatology clinic occurs once a month)
Friday Morning: 08:00 – 12:00 (alternating between outpatient clinics and clinics for biopsies run by the trainee)
Conditions treated at St George Hospital include, but may not be limited to:
- Moderate to severe inflammatory acne (when the lesions are numerous, leaving bad scarring and / or post-inflammatory pigmentation)
- Hair loss (excepting male or female pattern hair loss). Intralesional corticosteroids for alopecia is not currently performed in our department
- Eczema / dermatitis: including atopic, seborrhoeic, contact (irritant and allergic). Patch testing for allergic contact dermatitis is not being currently performed in our department
- Chronic urticaria (>6 weeks of symptoms)
- Psoriasis
- Pigmentary disorders such as vitiligo
- Skin cancers (basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, Merkel cell carcinoma). Please attach of the corresponding biopsy report to the referral
- Nail disorders (except for tinea / fungal infection) - a negative nail fungal microbiology report must be attached to the referral for this purpose
- Genital rashes where a sexually-transmitted infections has been ruled out (a negative STI screening must be attached to the referral)
Exceptions – conditions or patients not managed by the department
This service does not offer treatment for the following:
- Patients being treated for the same condition at another NSW hospital (special arrangements can be made for children under 18 years of age via CARS - Children Acute Review Service)
- Routine skin checks (only provided for high-risk patients e.g. solid organ transplant patients or with more than 5 skin cancers). Refer to the NSW Health and SESLHD supported skin cancer service at Integrated Specialist Healthcare Service: https://ishc.org.au/find-a-service/skin-cancer/
- Venous ulceration and venous ulcers (refer to Vascular Surgery)
- Sexually transmitted diseases (refer to ID)
- Cosmetic Conditions and Treatments (post-acne scars or pigmentation, post-inflammatory pigmentary changes, facial rejuvenation, superficial varicose veins, wrinkles, lipodystrophy or lipoatrophy, among others)
- Seborrhoeic keratoses
- Laser Dermatology
- Warts (for warts that have persisted for more than 6 months despite treatment, please specify in the referral the number and type of treatments that has been used)
- Blistering diseases (to be referred to Prof Murrell Bullous Diseases clinic in her Kogarah private rooms)
Please keep in mind that due to a very high demand of our services, failure to attend to the appointments more than once will make the patient to be discharged back to their treating GP. If the patient's condition requires it, the referring doctor will re-send a new referral and the referral will be re-triaged. For the same reason, unless the patient has multidisciplinary care at SGH, we are no longer accepting patients outside of our catchment area
The process for referring a patient is:
- GP/referrer to send through referral via Fax 02 9113 2297 or Email seslhd-stg-opd@health.nsw.gov.au
- The referral will be checked to ensure it is valid. If not valid then extra information will be sourced from the referrer
- If valid the referral will be triaged by dermatology clinic doctor
- Appointment made as per doctor's recommendation
- Patient notified by confirmation letter as well as a text / call 1 week prior to appointment
A valid referral requires:
- Written by a medical practitioner in a private practice or an SMO
- Written to a named doctor within the clinic
- Signed and dated by referring practitioner and include their Provider Number and place of practice
- Include length of referral, unless it is a 12-month referral
- Patient to have signed financial consent form
- If an interpreter is required
- If it is for further follow up, please specify the condition for which the patient has been attending our department
All referrals are prioritised and allocated according to criteria.
You can contact us by telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450.
Tell the operator what language you speak, and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and us on 02 9113 2513.