Dr. Sherif Tawfeek
Dr. Sherif Tawfeek
Dr Sherif Tawfeek – Gynecology & Minimal Invasive Surgery, Endometriosis Specialist.
Summary: Dr Sherif Tawfeek is a highly experienced endometriosis specialist based in Midland, WA, Australia. With a patient-centered and holistic approach, Dr Sherif Tawfeek combines minimally invasive surgery and advanced medical treatments to provide personalized care for those suffering from endometriosis. He offers both ablation for minimal disease and infertility concerns, and excision surgery for chronic pain cases requiring more aggressive treatment. Dr Tawfeek often incorporates medications such as Zoladex or progesterone based on each patient’s age and symptom severity. Believing in a comprehensive model of care, Dr Sherif Tawfeek also addresses persistent pain by collaborating with a multidisciplinary team that may include physiotherapists, dietitians, and pain specialists. His autoimmune-centered philosophy ensures each patient receives thoughtful, individualized care to improve quality of life and long-term outcomes. Dr Sherif Tawfeek is dedicated to supporting patients through every step of their endometriosis journey.
City: Midland, WA, Australia
Philosophy of Endometriosis Care: Autoimmune
What type of surgery do you perform for endometriosis?: Ablation for minimal ends or infertility reasons and excision for aggressive surgery in chronic pain.
Medication: Zoladex or progesterone, depending on age and severity of symptoms.
Approach to Persistent Pain After Surgery: Address other non-gyne causes and include a holistic team approach, pain specialist, physio, dietician, etc…
Georgia Spry
Georgia Spry
Georgia Spry—Endometriosis Dietitian
Summary: Georgia Spry is a compassionate endometriosis dietitian at The Dietologist in Chippendale, dedicated to providing personalized nutrition care tailored to each individual’s unique needs. Georgia Spry focuses on reducing endometriosis-related pain, improving gastrointestinal health, and supporting fertility through flexible, evidence-based dietary strategies. Her patient-centered approach avoids strict elimination diets, encouraging sustainable nutrition habits that fit into everyday life. Georgia collaborates closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure coordinated care, addressing common nutrient deficiencies like iron and vitamin D while helping patients manage food intolerances with minimal restrictions. She emphasizes anti-inflammatory diets to ease symptoms and uses targeted nutrition strategies to relieve digestive issues such as constipation, diarrhea, and bloating. Georgia Spry also offers customized supplementation and fertility nutrition plans to enhance reproductive outcomes. With warmth and expertise, she empowers patients to regain control over their health and quality of life.
Visit types: Virtual
Spoken languages: English
Interpreting services for other languages: No
Philosophy of care for endometriosis patients:
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Dr. Sean Copson
Dr. Sean Copson
Dr. Sean Copson – Gynecology & Minimal Invasive Surgery, Endometriosis Specialist.
Summary: Dr Sean Copson is a dedicated endometriosis specialist based in West Perth, Western Australia. Known for his compassionate approach, Dr Sean Copson provides personalized care tailored to each patient’s needs. His expertise in gynecology and minimally invasive surgery ensures that patients receive the most effective treatments for managing endometriosis, including medications like progesterone-only pills, COCP, Zoladex, NSAIDs, and TCAs.
Dr Sean Copson believes in a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to care. He recognizes that endometriosis requires not only surgical intervention but also comprehensive management, especially for patients experiencing persistent pain after surgery. His treatment plans involve collaboration with pain specialists, physiotherapists, and other healthcare providers to improve the patient’s overall well-being. With Dr Sean Copson, patients can trust that their care will be customized to address the unique aspects of their condition and help them achieve the best possible outcomes.
City: West Perth, Western Australia
Philosophy:
Coelomic metaplasia, immunological, and genetic
Medication:
Approach to Persistent Pain After Surgery:
Dr. David Rosen
Dr. David Rosen, M.B., B.S.,
Dr. David Rosen – Endometriosis Specialist, Gynecologist, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgeon
Summary: Dr David Rosen gynaecologist is a highly skilled endometriosis specialist based in Kogarah, NSW, Australia. With extensive experience in treating endometriosis, Dr. David Rosen gynaecologist, provides individualized care, focusing on excision surgery to remove all deposits rather than relying on less effective treatments like diathermy. His approach is designed to address the unique needs of each patient, ensuring the best possible outcomes.
For treatment, Dr David Rosen utilizes a range of therapies including OCP, progesterone IUDs (Mirena), and GnRH analogs (Zoladex), along with laparoscopy when necessary. He collaborates with pelvic floor physiotherapists and pain specialists to help manage chronic pain, offering a multidisciplinary approach to care.
As a dedicated gynaecologist, Dr David Rosen provides ongoing support through regular follow-ups and personalized pain management plans to improve quality of life for his patients.
City: Kogarah, NSW, Australia
Philosophy: The cause of endometriosis is unknown – deep infiltrating disease arising from the uterosacral ligaments and incorporating the ovaries and bowel shows a very different natural history to peritoneal gunpowder or vesicular deposits yet both can cause severe symptoms in women. Accordingly, each patient is approached individually however the overarching philosophy is extensional surgery to remove all deposits (versus “diathermy to endometriosis” which can often leave deep deposits of endometriosis especially in the Pouch of Douglas)
Medication:
Approach to Persistent Pain After Surgery: Endometriosis represents a chronic disease and I believe that pain pathways are laid down over years, like a highway of stimuli from the source in the pelvis, to the sensory cortex and back to the pelvis. As such, it is not unusual to experience recureent symptoms in the same areas as the initial presentation, even if the stimulus is minor. Whilst all physicians hope that their patients experience rapid and permanent relief from excising disease, I am aware of the concept of visceral sensitization and the strategies needed to reduce chronic pain symptoms for this group of women. Accordingly all endometriosis patients are reviewed annually until they feel they no longer need to be seen, offered hormonal therapy following surgery if fertility is not immediately desired and then work as a team to strategize the best plan for chronic pain sufferers, often involving clinicians listed below..
Candice Crellin
Candice Crellin
Candice Crellin—Endometriosis Dietitian
Summary: Candice Crellin is a dedicated endometriosis dietitian based in New South Wales, Australia, who offers personalized, science-based nutrition care to improve quality of life. Candice Crellin focuses on creating flexible, patient-centered diet plans that reduce endometriosis-related pain, support gastrointestinal health, and enhance fertility when desired. Her approach avoids strict elimination diets, instead promoting nutritional strategies that fit each person’s unique lifestyle and needs. Candice collaborates with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to ensure coordinated and comprehensive care. She helps patients identify and manage food intolerances with minimal restrictions, correct common nutrient deficiencies such as iron and vitamin D, and adopt anti-inflammatory diets to ease symptoms. Candice Crellin also provides tailored supplementation and fertility-focused guidance to support reproductive health. With a compassionate and practical approach, she empowers patients to navigate their nutrition journey confidently while managing endometriosis symptoms effectively.
Visit types: Virtual
Spoken languages: English
Interpreting services for other languages: No
Philosophy of care for endometriosis patients:
Our philosophy at The Dietologist is all about finding each person’s unique blueprint when it comes to their diet and lifestyle that can help improve their daily life, reduce their endometriosis-related pain, improve their gastrointestinal function and optimise current or future fertility (if desired). We have a philosophy of person-centered care based on the latest science, collaborating with multi-disciplinary team members for optimised and coordinated care, as well as approaching nutrition in a non-perfectionistic and flexible way! No unnecessary strict elimination diet protocols that make you feel bad about yourself for “slipping up”, we want you to experience maximum flexibility with your nutrition so you can live life how you want to, with minimum symptoms getting in the way!
The right diet for an individual can help correct common nutrient deficiencies – iron, B12, vitamin D, and calcium
identify and navigate food intolerances (more common in those with endometriosis) with as little restriction as possible
adopt anti-inflammatory dietary patterns to manage pain and chronic inflammatory symptoms associated with endometriosis
nutritional strategies to help with constipation, diarrhea and bloating as well as IBS (judicious use of the low FODMAP diet as required)
design bespoke supplementation plans to support dietary intake as well as endometriosis symptoms. Supportive nutrition strategies for individuals and couples trying to conceive (assisted or unassisted) – including optimising egg quality before IVF, conception, or egg freezing, supporting sperm quality and enhancing implantation using evidence-based nutrition strategies.
Stefanie Valakas
Stefanie Valakas
Stefanie Valakas—Endometriosis Dietitian
Summary: Stefanie Valakas is an experienced endometriosis dietitian based in New South Wales, Australia, dedicated to personalized, flexible nutrition care. Stefanie Valakas focuses on helping patients manage endometriosis symptoms by tailoring diet and lifestyle strategies that reduce pain, improve gastrointestinal health, and support fertility goals. Her approach emphasizes a non-restrictive, science-based method that avoids rigid elimination diets, promoting balance and enjoyment in eating while minimizing symptoms. Stefanie collaborates closely with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to provide coordinated, patient-centered care. She helps identify common nutrient deficiencies like iron and vitamin D, navigate food intolerances, and adopt anti-inflammatory diets that can ease chronic inflammation linked to endometriosis. Stefanie Valakas also offers customized supplementation plans and fertility-focused nutritional guidance to optimize reproductive health. Her warm and professional approach empowers patients to take control of their nutrition and improve quality of life through sustainable, evidence-based strategies.
Visit types: Virtual
Spoken languages: English
Interpreting services for other languages: No
Philosophy of care for endometriosis patients:
Our philosophy at The Dietologist is all about finding each person’s unique blueprint when it comes to their diet and lifestyle that can help improve their daily life, reduce their endometriosis-related pain, improve their gastrointestinal function and optimise current or future fertility (if desired). We have a philosophy of person-centered care based on the latest science, collaborating with multi-disciplinary team members for optimised and coordinated care, as well as approaching nutrition in a non-perfectionistic and flexible way! No unnecessary strict elimination diet protocols that make you feel bad about yourself for “slipping up.” We want you to experience maximum flexibility with your nutrition so you can live life how you want to, with minimum symptoms getting in the way!
The right diet for an individual can help correct common nutrient deficiencies—iron, B12, vitamin D, and calcium.
identify and navigate food intolerances (more common in those with endometriosis) with as little restriction as possible
Adopt anti-inflammatory dietary patterns to manage pain and chronic inflammatory symptoms associated with endometriosis, nutritional strategies to help with constipation, diarrhea, and bloating, as well as IBS (judicious use of the low FODMAP diet as required,) design bespoke supplementation plans to support dietary intake as well as endometriosis symptoms. Supportive nutrition strategies for individuals and couples trying to conceive (assisted or unassisted)—including optimizing egg quality before IVF, conception, or egg freezing; supporting sperm quality; and enhancing implantation using evidence-based nutrition strategies.
