Our Doctors
Dr Simone Zoepke
Simone is a local girl and attended the local public Kloof schools, starting at Kloof Pre-Primary and ending at Kloof High School. She then traveled and worked for a year before completing her studies in medicine at the University of Pretoria. She did her internship at the PMB Hospital Complex over 2 years and then made the trek to Bethlehem where she did her Community Service year in the Phekolong District Hospital Casualty. Thereafter, she practiced as a GP in women’s health for two years before moving to the Hillcrest Surgical Unit and the Hillcrest Medicross. She has developed and nurtured a keen interest in Plastics and Reconstructive surgery, Emergency Care, Orthopaedics and Female Health.
During her undergraduate studies, Simone spent 7 weeks in Tromso, Norway where she learnt under the wing of plastic surgeon, Dr Louis de Weerd. She then went on to write a medical paper with him on the use of muscle flaps in reconstructive surgery in addition to another she wrote with Dr Nikki Allorto in the field of Burn Surgery. She has always had a passion for writing and teaching and finds pleasure in imparting her knowledge and experience onto others. She now hopes to share her knowledge with the upper highway community through Public Health and be a filter for the technical and sometimes overwhelming amounts of information available to those looking for answers about their bodies and health.
Dr Taryn Fisher
Dr Shaun Martin
Shaun Martin grew up in Westville and attended Westville Boys’ High School before training as a medical doctor at Wits University. After qualifying, he worked at Baragwanath Hospital first as an Intern and then in the Anaesthetics department where he attained a Diploma in Anaesthesia. He did a further 18 months in Lincoln, UK as a Staff grade in Anaesthetics before returning to South Africa. He has been a GP in The Upper Highway since 1994 with regular return visits initially to the UK for Anaesthetic locums and more recently to Ireland as a GP locum.
His particular fields of interest include care of the elderly, Addiction Medicine, Urgent care and Procedural Sedation. He is a director at Hillcrest Surgical Unit and Careline Crisis and Halfway House, and a GP at Medicross Hillcrest and Le Domaine Health