Staff
Practice Manager
Deborah Simmons is an experienced practice manager with experience managing plastic surgery and hand surgery practices as well as hand therapy services. She has extensive experience dealing with private insurers as well as coordinating care of patients between multiple treating professionals.
Specialist Plastic Surgery Nurses
Vanessa Dittmar
Vanessa is an experienced operating theatre and plastic surgery nurse. In addition to her role at Adelaide Plastic and Hand Surgery, she is currently the Clinical Nurse Consultant in charge of paediatric plastic surgery at the women’s and children’s hospital Adelaide. She has a keen interest in plastic surgery and also delivery of plastic surgery services in the developing world, having volunteered her expertise in many overseas aid missions.
Alex Thomson
Alex graduated from the university of South Australia with a Bachelors degree in nursing and subsequently spent a year working as an operating theatre nurse at Memorial Hospital. During this time she developed a keen interest in plastic and hand surgery and has joined the team at Adelaide Plastic and Hand Surgery in 2015. As well as her role at Adelaide Plastic and Hand Surgery, Alex continues in her role as a perioperative nurse at Central Districts Hospital