Dr Magdalena Simonis
MBBS FRACGP DRANZCOG MHHS
I’m a dedicated full-time GP of 30 years with a deep and diverse involvement across many sectors and an array of community organisations. My strength and efficacy stem from my passion for health and my pride in being a general practitioner.
Employment
- General Practitioner
- RACGP Examiner
- GP Trainer, Sustainable Primary Care Family Violence Model Project
Qualifications
- Applied Learning Healthcare Systems, short course, University of Melbourne, 2021
- Masters of Health and Human Services, University of Melbourne, 2020
- Advanced Certificate of Implementation Science, University of Melbourne, 2019
- Advanced Certificate in Service Navigation, University of Melbourne, 2018
- Fellow Royal Australian College General Practitioners, 1993
- Diploma of Obstetrics Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1991
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, 1986
Awards
2013
- General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic Centre Award, for Excellent Contribution to Student Research by a Primary Care Practitioner.
- Women’s Health Victoria, named ‘Take a Stand champion’, for the successful promotion of the Take A Stand programme, for the primary prevention of violence against women.

Memberships
Volunteering
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Australian Menopause Society
- Australian Medical Association
- Health Informatics Society Australasia
- Australasian HIV and Sexual Health Association
- Sexual Health Society of Victoria
Languages Spoken
- English
- Greek
- German
- Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub
- Australian Greek Welfare Society
- Victorian Medical Women’s Society
- Melbourne Baroque Orchestra (Founding Patron)
- Women’s Health Victoria
- Australian Federation of Medical Women