Our Team
Stela Bashi
Manager
As our practice manager, Stela oversees clinical bookings, lab bookings and reception staff in multiple locations to ensure our practices run smoothly.
Please email Stela with any queries or concerns about your veins or arterial treatments.
Our general email is info@theartofveincare.com.au.
Kate Hilleard
Administration
Kate is resopnsible for patient bookings, emails, phone queries and maintaining patient procedure scheduling and billing.
She has extensive experience working in informed financial consent at Wollongong private hospital prior to joining the team
Olivia
Administration
Olivia is responsible for the overall management of The Art of Vein Care medical practice.
This includes financial management, quality control, processes and protocols, administrative tasks and ensuring that our practice runs efficiently and effectively.
Sean
Sonographer
Sean is qualified as both a general sonographer and cardiac sonographer in our Wollongong clinic. He also teaches ultrasound within the Intensive Care Unit and the Emergency Department at Wollongong Public Hospital.
Hadi Younese
Sonographer
Hadi is one of our inhouse sonographer in Gregory Hills.
He is sub-specialty trained in vascular ultrasound (AMS) and helps map out venous and arterial disease
Anna Richardson
Sonographer
Josephine St George
Lipoedema Advocate
Art of Vein proudly supports our lipoedema patient advocates including Josephine St John and Lisa Grubb who continue to educated about this little known and painful fat disease that impacts 1 in 11 women, and does not respond to diet and exercise.
Lipoedema is frequently misdiagnosed by patients and general practitioners and also frequently causes vein issues. Watch here.
Vein Treatments Wollongong, Gregory Hills & Orange
The field of venous surgery has advanced rapidly in the past three decades with vein stripping, open surgery with long hospital recovery times a thing of the past, giving way to endovascular surgery and minimally invasive procedures.
That has meant shorter hospital stays, and for many patients, no need for hospitalisation at all – and often walk-in-walk-out vein treatments on the same day.
Since its inception, AVC has been a pioneer in this new era of vein technology.
Principal, Associate Professor Dr David Huber set up Australia’s first hybrid endovascular suite in the public health system; established the first specialised vascular surgery practice in Wollongong and personally fostered and mentored dozens of junior doctors.
AVC also has a long association with ultrasound labs and the training of specialist vascular sonographers and currently the practice has two specialty sonographers and one receptionist doing the entry exams so that she too can embark on the four-year course.
Ultrasound goes hand-in-glove with phlebology, because it is a non-invasive method of verifying a diagnosis, and a way of guiding vein treatment.
Currently AVC performs state-of-the-art Duplex ultrasounds on all parts of the body except the heart in our Wollongong and Gregory Hills ultrasound clinics.
All vascular, vein and arterial scans are bulk-billed in both our Wollongong and Gregory Hills locations.
We look forward to treating you in one of our comfortable Art of Vein care clinics.