Dr Joel Hissink (GP)
- Name
- Dr Joel Hissink
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery University of Sydney Australia 2008
- FRACGP Australia 2013
- Occupation
- General Practitioner (GP)
- Gender
- Male
Joel moved to the Northern Rivers after spending 19 years in the Royal Australian Navy. Among other positions, Joel was an officer in the navigation branch and a ship’s diving officer before studying medicine at the University of Sydney in 2004. Following his studies Joel worked at St George Hospital in Sydney for two years before joining the Navy’s Submarine & Underwater Medicine Unit at HMAS Penguin, Sydney in 2010. As the Officer-In-Charge from 2012, Joel was responsible for the medical care and selection of the Navy’s elite clearance divers and submariners as well as the medical management of military and civilian diving accidents.
Joel has lectured extensively on diving medicine and is on the Executive Committee for the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society.
Beyond diving medicine, Joel has a special interest in children’s health. A dad of three young kids, he holds a Diploma of Child Health from the Children’s Hospital Westmead in Sydney and has extensive experience caring for families at the Dee Why General Practice where he practiced part-time from 2010 to 2015.
Having spent 2015 travelling around Australia with his wife and their three young kids, Joel has now settled in the Northern Rivers.
- Affiliated Clinics
- Bay Centre Medical Clinic
- Tweed Health for Everyone Superclinic
- Affiliated Organisations
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Practice Locations
NSW
- Bay Centre Medical Clinic
- Address
- 6 Lawson Street
Byron Bay NSW 2481
Australia
- Phone
- 02 6685 6206
- Fax
- 02 6685 5788
Tweed Heads
- Tweed Health for Everyone Superclinic
- Address
- 33-35 Corporation Circuit
Tweed Heads South NSW 2486
Australia
- Phone
- 07 5589 7555
- Fax
- 07 5523 0644
