Meet Our Doctors

Alike Health provides specialist-led assessment and management for complex medical, psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and functional presentations.

This page is designed to help referring clinicians quickly identify the most appropriate specialist for their patient.

Referral Guidance:

For optimal triage, please include relevant history, previous investigations, and key clinical concerns when referring. Urgent or high-complexity cases should be clearly flagged in referral documentation.

Rehabilitation Medicine

Dr Liz Thompson | Rehabilitation Medicine Specialist & Director | Alike

Dr Elizabeth Thompson (Liz)

Rehabilitation Medicine Specialist

Dr Thompson provides comprehensive rehabilitation assessment and management for patients with complex disability, neurological conditions, injury-related impairment, and chronic functional limitations across the lifespan.

Referral Focus:

  • Complex disability and long-term functional impairment
  • Neurological rehabilitation and recovery planning
  • Injury-related functional loss and return-to-function support
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Traumatic Brain Injury (acquired and congenital)
  • Intellectual Disability with health-related complexity
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Post-stroke rehabilitation
  • Connective tissue spectrum disorders, POTS
  • FND

Specialist Services

  • Tone management with anti-spasticity medication injections under ultrasound-guidance
  • Multidisciplinary rehabilitation coordination

Funding & Insurance

  • SIRA (WorkCover and motor vehicle injury claims accredited)
  • Functional and medico-legal reporting

Psychiatry

Dr Ria Leonard | Psychiatrist | Alike

Dr Ria Leonard

Psychiatrist
Dr Leonard provides specialist psychiatric care across the lifespan, with expertise in complex and multi-layered psychiatric presentations.

Referral Focus:

  • Perinatal mental health (pregnancy and postnatal period)

Paediatrics

Dr Rakel Hansen | Paediatrician | Alike

Dr Rakel Hansen

Paediatrician (Early Developmental Medicine)

Dr Hansen provides comprehensive developmental and medical assessment for infants, children, and adolescents with complex developmental needs.

Referral Focus:

  • Newborns to 15 years
  • Early developmental concerns
  • Complex paediatric presentations
  • Longitudinal developmental assessment and ongoing monitoring

Clinical Genetics

Dr Himanshu Goel | Clinical Geneticist | Alike

Dr Himanshu Goel

Clinical Geneticist

Dr Goel provides specialist diagnostic assessment and management of inherited and genetic conditions across paediatric and adult populations.

Referral Focus:

  • Suspected genetic disorders
  • Family history of inherited conditions
  • Diagnostic clarification of complex syndromic presentation
  • Genetic counselling and risk assessment