Our Doctors and Nurse Practitioners
With 13 Doctors, 2 Nurse Practitioners and 2 Nurse Prescribers of varying nationalities and specialties at our practice in Howick, we are confident you will find a doctor suited to you and your family’s needs. Most of our Doctors are fellowship members of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, so you can be assured of high quality and professional care. Most of our Doctors live locally.
Special interests and skills within the medical team include family medicine, women’s health, family planning, child health or paediatrics, minor surgery, diving medicine, senior health, preventative or lifestyle health, men’s medicine, rehabilitation, diabetes care, long term condition care and cardio-vascular medicine.
We are a teaching practice – training two GP registrars each year. Dr Bruce Greenfield provides the teaching component of the GP Registrar Programme.
Dr Olivia Lodeizen
Dr Karla Minnitt
Nurse Practitioner Pratik Parikh
Dr Bruce Greenfield
Dr Brendon Aish
Dr Graham Witney
Dr James Lin
Dr Michael Chen
Dr Janli Stapelberg
Dr Kate Gittins
Dr Linley Murray
Dr Lorraine Forbes
Dr Michael Chen
Dr Shirley Ren
Nurse Practitioner Robyn McCullough
Nurse Practitioner Intern- Ashleigh Fox
Nurse Prescriber Binda Wang
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Dr Shirley Ren
(MBBS,BA) (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Shirley Ren grew up in Auckland and completed her medical degree in Brisbane. She has subsequently worked across the Auckland region hospitals for 5 years and has worked as a clinical researcher. She speaks a bit of conversational Mandarin.
Dr Janli Stapelberg
MBChB FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Janli Stapelberg completed her MBChB at UFS, Bloemfontein, South Africa. She came to NZ in 1994 and specialised in General Practice in 2013. Janli is a GP who welcomes all patients, but has a special interest in: Orthopaedics, Dermatology, and Neurology. Janli is a single mom with two lovely children and feels blessed to live in this wonderful country. Sy kan Afrikaans praat.
Message from Dr Janli: Ek hou spasie oop vir Afrikaans sprekende patiente om te registreer by my. Daar is n beperkte hoeveelheid Afrikaanse Familie Dokters in Auckland en Crawford probeer voorsien in die benodigdhede van ons patient populasie.
Dr Kate Gittins
B.M. MRCGP (London) (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Kate Gittins grew up in Wales and her medical training was completed at Southhampton University in the South of England. She then trained as a GP in London, and has now worked as a GP for 19 years. She covers all areas of general practice, but has a special interest in dermatology, women’s health and family planning. Kate fell in love with New Zealand when she worked here as a Registrar and decided to move permanently. In her spare time she can be found running, mountain biking and walking the family dog.
Dr Karla Minnitt
MB ChB 2007 Kwazulu-Natal (ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Karla Minnitt trained and has practiced in South-Africa since 2010, before moving to New Zealand in 2018.
She is passionate about pediatrics and dermatology. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, football and spending time with her family. Language: English and limited Afrikaans.
Dr Brendon Aish
MBChB, FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Brendon is a New Zealand born and trained Family Practitioner with a love of his family of four children. Brendon has a passion for good health outcomes for everyone in the community. He believes communication is key to healthy relationships.
Dr Bruce Greenfield
MBChb Otago,DipOB, FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW
PATIENTS)
Dr Bruce Greenfield started Crawford Medical Centre in Howick in 1972. His medical specialties now include care of the elderly and teaching Graduate doctors. He is a WINZ Designated Dr and does minor surgery for the Plastics Dept of South Auckland Health Care. Golf is his main sporting interest.
Dr Linley Murray
MBChb, FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Linley Murray is a general practitioner in the truest sense and this is exactly what you want from your family doctor. Linley has a Diploma in Community Emergency Medicine. Linley joined Crawford Medical Centre in 1987. Languages English
Dr Graham Witney
BHB, MBChb,FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Graham Witney has worked in the Howick area as a GP since 1990. Graham trained as a General Surgeon for 5 years. His special interest: minor surgery and health promotion. In his spare time he enjoys cycling and boating. Dr Witney works a late night on Tuesdays
Dr Lorraine Forbes
MBChB (Distinction), FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Lorraine Forbes works in all aspects of General Practice and Emergency Care. She was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and studied at the University of Cape Town Medical School. In 1993, she emigrated to New Zealand and joined Crawford Medical Centre.
Languages: English
Dr James Lin
MB (NYMU)FRNZCGP (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr James Lin has practiced medicine in Taiwan and New Zealand. His special interest: minor surgery including skin lesions, children and the elderly care. Dr Lin enjoys tramping, swimming biking and tennis. Joined Crawford Medical Centre in 2006. Languages fluent English, Mandarin and Taiwanese.
Dr Olivia Lodeizen
BSC,MSC (ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Olivia completed her medical degree and training in the Netherlands. She is a GP with experience in surgery, cardiology and geriatrics, to name a few. She is fluent in Dutch and English, with limited proficiency in French.
Dr Michael Chen
BSc, BMedSc (Hons), MBChB (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Dr Michael Chen is an Otago University Medical School graduate. He has been working in hospitals in Dunedin and Auckland DHBs prior to joining Crawford. Michael emigrated from China in 1995 and has spent considerable time in urban and rural New Zealand. He is fluent in both English and Mandarin. His main sporting interest is tennis.
NP Robyn McCullough
Mstr Nur (Honours), PG Dip HSc. (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Robyn began her career in Australia, working as a registered nurse in aged care, and later moved to NZ and qualified as a Nurse Practitioner. She has 15 years experience as an NP in palliative care. In her spare time, Robyn indulges her love or art, and enjoys being outdoors.
Ashleigh Fox
Nurse Practitioner Intern (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Ashleigh graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing from MIT in 2017. With a passion for improving health outcomes in the community, She has solely based her nursing career on working in the Primary health sector. As a new graduate nurse, She completed a postgraduate Diploma in Registered Nurse prescribing in 2020 obtaining a license to prescribe within Primary health and specialty teams in early 2021. She joined Crawford Medical Centre in 2023 as a Nurse Prescriber whilst she completes a Master’s degree in Advanced Nursing Practice with a Nurse Practitioner focus working closely with Dr Bruce Greenfield to ensure holistic, safe and efficient care for all patients whilst upskilling and maintaining professional development.
NP Pratik Parikh
Mstr NSc, PG DIP NSc (ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Pratik is a Nurse Practitioner with a scope across the life span. His experience includes primary and acute care in Wellington. He is fluent in English, Hindi, Gujarati, and Punjabi, with conversational skills in Marathi and Kannada. Outside work, he cherishes family time, try to get fit while exploring his passion for food.
Binda Wang
Nurse Prescriber (NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS)
Binda graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing from Invercargill. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science (University of Auckland).
He worked in different areas of nursing including aged care, general surgical and urgent care prior to joining Crawford Medical in 2021.
In his spare time, he enjoys time in the outdoors, bush walking, reading and is currently learning German.
Binda is fluent in English, Chinese Mandarin, and understands Shanghainese.