Dr Nelis Ehlers

GP
MBBS, FRACGP

About:
Dr Nelis Ehlers completed his medical training in 2006 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and gained valuable experience in multiple medical disciplines during his training. He worked in emergency medicine & general practice until he relocated to Australia in 2014.

Since then, Dr Nelis worked at Hornsby, Gosford & Wyong Hospitals, doing rotations through cardiology ,general surgery, psychiatry & ICU departments. Following these rotations, he continued doing emergency medicine at Wyong and Gosford Hospitals until 2019. During these years in the emergency department he realised that he was often seeing complications of chronic health-problems that could have been addressed much earlier & sparked an interest in a more preventative approach in medicine.

With this in mind, he switched to focused training in General Practice & over the last 5 years Dr Nelis worked as a GP in Gloucester,Nelson Bay & the Central Coast & now lives on the Central Coast with his wife and son.

He enjoys the wide variety of diagnostic complexities encountered in general practice , especially as it relates to the cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrinological systems.

He maintains a firm belief that lifestyle changes are ultimately the bedrock of good overall health, but that medications maintain an important role in protecting & supporting the body's complex systems in more advanced disease processes.

He has a commitment to continuity of care & loves working collaboratively with patients and seeing their improvement over time.