OUR TEAM
High-Quality Healthcare You Can Trust
Our practice is led by talented and experienced practitioners committed to sustaining a high-performing healthcare system responsive to the needs of the community Botanic Ridge Doctors serve.
Dr Faisal Siddiqui
Dr Siddiqui is one of the Doctors&Co. highly qualified and experienced medical professionals, currently exercising his wide range of skills at our Cranbourne West Medical Centre.
Growing up in West Africa and working there as well as in Asia and the United Kingdom, Dr Siddiqui completed his General Specialisation at the General College of Royal Practitioners in the UK, as well as a Masters in Public Health. He worked for the UK National Institute of Health and Care Institute and published four clinical guidelines.
Now settled in Australia with his family, Dr Siddiqui is a valued member of the Doctors&Co. team. With skills and experience in many aspects of general practice, he has a particular interest in diabetes, paediatrics, psychiatry, and sexual and reproductive health (including contraception and implants).
Dr Siddiqui is also experienced with WorkCover, Transport Accident Commission and Centrelink claims, and can assist patients with the burden of paperwork. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Practitioners, and holds the role of Examiner.
Examiners are critical in the assessment of GPs in Australia, and they represent excellence in general practice. This role also ensures that Dr Siddiqui is at the cutting edge of current and best practice medical knowledge.
Dr Siddiqui’s experience dealing with patients from different countries and backgrounds makes him an exceptional, understanding and compassionate general practitioner. When not devoting time to caring for patients, he enjoys spending time with his young family.
As well as quality family time he enjoys sports such as cricket and badminton, and despite being happily settled in Australia a part of his heart remains in the UK with his favourite football club Manchester United!
Dr Roshini Gannoruwa
Dr Roshini Gannoruwa completed her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2006 in Sri Lanka and began her journey as a Medical Practitioner in Australia in 2012. She has spent six years working at various hospitals throughout Victoria and NSW including Peninsula Health and Austin Hospital in Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Geriatrics and Emergency Medicine.
Dr Roshini trained as a rural GP and obtained her fellowship in Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She has completed the Certificate course of Child Health by The University of Sydney. She enjoys all areas of General Practice and has special interests in Prevention and Lifestyle Medicine, Family Medicine, Women’s Health and caring for children through to elderly. She is accredited for insertion and removals of subdermal implants.
She enjoys spending time with her family, gardening and travelling.
*Important Notice
Dr Gannoruwa will be transitioning to Mixed Billing from 12th March 2024. Bulk Billing will be available for children <18 years old, and healthcare card/pension card concession holders.
Dr Fariha Irshad
Dr Fariha Irshad – FRACGP and DRANZCOG Adv GP Obstetrics/Gynae expertise and special interests in Women’s Health accredited by Monash Health and Peninsula Health for shared care and she speaks three different languages besides English.
She has a particular interest in women’s health sexual health, General Family Medicine, obstetrics & gynaecology, and aesthetic fillers and anti-wrinkle treatment.
Dr Fariha Irshad’s qualifications are as follows:
- Advanced Diploma of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Dr. Dipankar Chakraborty
Dr Chakraborty is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP), affirming his status as a provider of high quality, safe and competent general practice services.
Completing additional education and training in skin cancer management and attained professional and advanced certificates in skin cancer medicine and complex skin cancer surgery. He provides comprehensive skin assessments which includes diagnosis, biopsy and excisions with experience in flaps and grafts. He also treats patients with various other skin ailments.
Dr Chakraborty is the lead skin doctor at Aurora Skin Clinic in Wangaratta and offers rural skin cancer treatments throughout Victoria and teaches registrars/students on skin cancer medicine and surgery.
Dr Chakraborty is dedicated to skin cancer management and strongly feels that no patient should ever die of skin cancer.
Dr Yasmin Kazi
MBBS, DCH (SYD), FRACGP
Additional Languages Spoken: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu and Limited Punjabi.
Special Interests: Paediatrics, Women’s Health, Family Planning, Mental Health, STI Screening, Chronic Disease management.
Performed Procedures: Implanon insertion and removal, Mirena Removal, Chronic mixed management: Chronic Hypertension, Obesity, Diabetes.
Dr Kazi obtained her GP Fellowship from the Royal College of General Practices (FRACGP) in 2020, obtained a Diploma in Child Heath (DCH) at Sydney University, 2018 and obtained her Diploma in Community Welfare services, 2010.
Dr Kazi has lived in Australia the past 14 years and recently moved from Mildura where she practiced as a GP for 7 and a 1/2 years.
Dr Kazi is very family orientated, mother of two beautiful daughters and loves spending time with family. Dr Kazi’s hobbies include music, travelling, reading, designing, cooking different culinary cuisines.
Dr Kazi has a very friendly, soft and calm nature, has the ability to listen to you with empathy, she is a very caring person offering all of her patients continuity of care. Dr Kazi looks forward to looking after you and your family.
Loretta Facey
Nurse Practitioner
Loretta Facey is a Nurse Practitioner with a rich background in primary care. She graduated from La Trobe University with a Master of Nursing and has over 14 years of experience as a Registered Nurse.
Loretta has completed postgraduate studies in Emergency Nursing and Gastroenterology Nursing and is a certified nurse immuniser. In 2021, she furthered her expertise with a Master of Wound Care from Monash University, developing a keen interest in the management of acute and chronic wounds, particularly lower limb wounds. Her dedication to patient care and improving health outcomes is at the heart of her practice.
During her free time, Loretta enjoys reading, camping with her family, and watching her two girls play football. Loretta’s got the mind of a Doctor, but the heart of a Nurse.
