Dr Leesa Walker | General Practitioner and Rural Generalist

About Dr Leesa Walker

Dr Walker grew up in country Victoria, spending much of her life in Terang and Warrnambool. She graduated from Monash University in 1998 and joined Hamilton Medical Group in 2002 after marrying a local.

She has special interests in medical education, family planning and sexual health. She provides IUD and Implanon contraceptive insertions and removals, as well as basic skin lesion removals. When away from the clinic she runs after her two children.

Alongside her clinical work, Leesa has a strong interest in medical education. She has served as Academic Coordinator of the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum (PRCC) at Flinders University, an internationally recognised program in which penultimate-year medical students learn from rural doctors in general practice settings. She has also held the role of Academic Coordinator for the Doctor of Medicine Progress Test.

Her academic interests include student and clinician wellbeing, community-engaged medical education, progress testing and medical school selection processes.

Outside the clinic, Leesa enjoys keeping busy with her two children.

Education: MBBS FRACGP-RG

  • Monash University

  • Clinical Educator with Flinders University

  • Grad Dip in Clinical Education (GDCE)

Special Interests: Medical Education, Family Planning and Sexual Health

Speaks: English