Our Specialist Physicians
Dr James Robertson
Respiratory & Sleep Physician
Dr Jim Robertson is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician.
He trained at Monash University (MBBS) and went on to undertake physician training at Monash Medical Centre (Monash Health) and Royal Melbourne Hospital. Dr Robertson is the Chair of Lung Cancer Multidisciplinary Team.
His clinic provides broad based respiratory and sleep care including:
- Asthma diagnosis and management
- Sleep Apnoea diagnosis and management
- Lung cancer – advanced diagnostics
- COPD diagnosis and management
- Oxygen prescription
- Interstitial Lung Disease diagnosis and management
- Breathlessness for investigation
As part of the regional service Border Physician Group has a fully featured laboratory staffed by a qualified registered nurse and respiratory technician.
Is a referral essential?
- Yes
Hospital Affiliations
- Albury Wodonga Health (Albury NSW & Wodonga VIC)
- Albury Wodonga Private Hospital
Dr Jack Heron
Consultant Nephrologist
Dr Jack Heron is a kidney specialist (nephrologist or renal physician).
Dr Heron studied medicine at the University of New South Wales. Dr Heron completed his final two years of medical school at the Albury Wodonga Rural Clinical School. Dr Heron went on to undertake his Internship and Residency at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He completed by Specialist Physicians training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord Repatriation General Hospital and Liverpool Hospital.
Dr Heron provides specialist consultation and long-term care for patients with all forms of kidney disease including hypertension (especially early-onset and resistant forms), chronic kidney disease, protein detected in urine (proteinuria), kidney inflammation (nephritis), recurrent kidney stones, and end-stage kidney disease. Dr Heron provides consultation for dialysis treatment (peritoneal and blood-based dialysis) and kidney transplantation. Dr Heron also provides kidney transplant assessments (both donor and recipient).
Dr Heron also consults with public patients through Vermont Street Health Centre. All appointments and enquiries for this clinic please phone 02 6051 7535.
Dr Heron’s consults with private patients here at Border Physicians Group one session per week.
Dr Heron is a Staff Specialist physician at Albury Wodonga Health.
Problems that are commonly referred to Dr Heron include:
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Reduced kidney function
- Protein and/or blood in the urine
- Management of dialysis treatment
- Management of a kidney transplant
- Assessment for kidney transplantation (donor and/or recipient)
- Salt imbalances in the blood
As part of the regional service Border Physician Group has a fully featured laboratory staffed by a qualified registered nurse and respiratory technician.
Is a referral essential?
- Yes
Dr Nick Sharrock
Geriatrician
Dr Nick Sharrock is a geriatrician.
A geriatrician is a specialist doctor, trained under the Royal Australian College of Physicians, that takes a holistic approach to health issues related to ageing.
Nick completed his medical degree at Monash University, and completed physician and geriatrics training at Eastern Health and Peninsula Health in Melbourne. He is a staff specialist at Albury Wodonga Health.
Within geriatric medicine, Nick is interested in cognitive impairment, delirium, reviewing polypharmacy, frailty, depression and anxiety in older people and comprehensive geriatric assessment as a tool to improve health and wellbeing. Nick may decline to complete some decision making capacity assessments.
Nick can see people in clinic, within residential aged care facilities or as a home visit for particularly frail people.
Dr Sharrock also consults with public patients through Albury Wodonga Health’s Allied Health Clinic. All appointments and enquiries for this clinic please phone 02 6051 7400.
Dr Sharrock consults with private patients here at Border Physicians Group two sessions per week.