Dr James MacMillan Armstrong

Te Anau has been home for me and my family since 2011 when we moved here from the UK after a brief stint Christchurch. Fiordland and Te Anau promised and proved to be a perfect balance of a lively, welcoming, cosmopolitan community in a setting that provided variety, beauty and endless opportunities to explore, adventure, get lost and then re-found.

I am a keen outdoor enthusiast and when not chasing blood results and pondering medication changes I try to get out pondering mountain passes to run or tramp, or chasing rapids, my children and wife through Fiordland bush, or an escaped dog, chickens, sheep or pigs.

Dr David Hamilton

David is a current Director of Fiordland Medical Practice and has been with the team for over 19 years.  David has two adult children and one four legged child named Monty.  David has a special interest in cardiology and medical education. Outside work, David is a keen mountaineer, skier, traveller and kayaker.

Dr Paula King 

Paula King grew up in Scotland and moved to Invercargill as a junior doctor.  She spent several years in various hospital roles including Emergency Medicine in Invercargill, Dunedin, and the UK, before deciding to specialise in General Practice.  She loves the variety that comes with working in a remote rural location and enjoys living in Te Anau and raising her 3 sons here.  She coaches trampolining, and enjoys tennis, tramping, skiing, snowboarding, and dips in the lake in her spare time.

Dr Stephen Hoskin

Stephen grew up in Pahiatua, a farming town in the Wairarapa. He first came to Te Anau in 1996 to walk the Milford Track during a holiday from medical school in Dunedin. He returned over the summer of 2003-4 when taking a three-month break from his work in Nelson hospital.  He returned again in 2006 for his registrar training, was asked to help cover the following summer and has stuck around ever since.  Outside work he runs, bikes, tramps, clambers up mountains; gardens; volunteers on the Fiordland Trails Trust and likes to spend time with his wife and four children.

Dr Ruaraidh Ellison

Ruaraidh, originally from Scotland, studied medicine at the University of Dundee and undertook his foundation training in the highlands of Scotland. Following this he gained experience in emergency medicine and critical care, as well as gaining a postgraduate diploma in Expedition & Wilderness Medicine, supporting expeditions to India and Nepal.
Ruaraidh moved to New Zealand in 2020 with his partner Rachel and worked in Dunedin Hospital before starting his GP training in 2022. He moved to Te Anau in 2023 to combine his GP career with his love of mountains and photography and plans to be part of the team for the foreseeable future.

Dr Rachel Brown

Rachel hails from Aberdeen on the northeast coast of Scotland and qualified in medicine and public health from the University of Edinburgh in 2018. Her medical training took her to the islands of the Outer Hebrides, where she met her partner Ruaraidh, before moving from Inverness to Dunedin in 2020 and then to Te Anau in 2023.
As part of her GP training Rachel has taken a particular interest in Women’s Health, studying a postgraduate certificate through the University of Otago.
Te Anau indulges Rachel’s love of the great outdoors and she can often be found reading, cooking, skiing or walking her dog Maggie.

Dr Mark Owen-Cooper

Mark is a born and bred Southlander who grew up just down the road in Winton, “Not a world away.”

He travelled the world for 4 years before studying Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, Graduating in 2018. Mark joined the team in Te Anau in 2022 as a GP registrar and is sticking around long term.

When not at work you will find him supervising or climbing at the Fiordland Climbing Wall, playing squash or possibly hiking, running, biking or swimming somewhere around Fiordland.

The rest of his time is spent replanting his lifestyle block into a small native forest.

Registered Nurses

Sheena Pottinger, Nurse Manager

Harriette Hamilton

Anna Marten

Janelle Matheson

Barbara Robertson

Bridget Leonard

Claire Bell

Grace Holland

Debbie Keen - Healthcare assistant