Dr Margaret Stellingwerff

Dr Margaret Stellingwerff

Dr. Stellingwerff trained at the University of NSW and spent her early post-graduate years at Westmead Hospital. She is highly experienced in women’s health, having worked as a senior clinician at Family Planning NSW for more than twenty years and is a long-standing member of the Australasian Menopause Society.

Dr Stellingwerff has a strong interest in women’s health and reproductive and sexual health and this is now her clinical focus. She has worked as a senior doctor for Family Planning NSW (FPNSW) for many years and is skilled in procedures such as Implanon and IUD insertions and removals. She has a particular interest in menopause and has taught this subject for the Family Planning Alliance Australia certificate course for some time as well as developing and writing the chapter on Menopause in the FPNSW Reproductive and Sexual Health handbook. She is a current member of the Australasian Menopause Society.

Dr Stellingwerff trained at the University of NSW and spent her early post graduate years at Westmead Hospital. She worked in General Practice in the Hawkesbury area and continued to work in the same practice until 2018. She has a keen interest in training the next generation of GPs. She has worked as a Supervisor of doctors in General Practice training for many years, has been involved in training workshops and courses for General Practice and is a Quality Assurance examiner for the RACGP exams. She currently works as a Senior Medical Educator for the General Practice training organisation GP Synergy.

Margarets’s areas of interest:

• Contraception

• IUDs, Implanon

• Menopause

• Period problems

• Fertility