Meet Our Team

We are proud of our team of experienced, qualified clinicians. They have a passion for providing the best in healthcare, and using our VR technology to reach patients from all around Australia.

Our Physiotherapists

Darren Corea

Darren Corea

Darren holds a Doctor of Physiotherapy with a special interest in chronic pain, paediatric disability and sports/general musculoskeletal physiotherapy. He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada before moving to Australia.

Darren enjoys living an active lifestyle and regularly participates in casual MMA classes, yoga, weightlifting and calisthenics.

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Tung Ngo

Tung Ngo

Tung has been a physiotherapist in private practice, inpatient rehabilitation and aged care.

Outside of work, he has a passion for computer games and technology, and is excited to combine his two loves by stepping into VR as a future branch of healthcare delivery. He enjoys spending time with his wife and their dog, Soba.

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Natashie Furmie

Natasha Furmie

Natasha has completed a Bachelor of Health Science and Master’s of Physiotherapy. She has a strong passion for Paediatrics and is furthering her excellence in this area with a Master’s of Paediatric Physiotherapy.

Natasha’s experience includes helping both adults and children in the private and community sectors, with a philosophy that early intervention provides a greater opportunity to make a difference.

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Joel Nucum

Joel Nucum

Joel is an experienced physiotherapist, having worked in private practice and sports environment settings throughout his career. He has a specialty in understanding musculoskeletal injuries including shoulders, lower back and knee related pains, as well as sporting injuries.

In his spare time, he loves spending time with his Cavoodle Rey, playing beach volleyball, and training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

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Ustina Tawdrous

Ustina Tawdrous

Ustina specialises in sports injuries, exercise prescription and movement biomechanics.

She speaks English and Arabic, and loves travelling, hiking, painting and spoiling her niece.

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Marco Cheung

Marco Cheung

Marco graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Doctor of Physiotherapy and has worked within both private practice and hospital settings. He has a particular interest in post-operative rehabilitation and clinical Pilates.

Marco speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and loves to keep active, go hiking, and explore the many cafes that Melbourne has to offer.

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Rebecca Tannous

Rebecca Tannous

Rebecca has had plenty of experience with injuries herself (from a serious head injury as a child to ruptured plantar fasciitis). She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Major Human Movement) and a Masters of Applied Sciences (Physiotherapy).

When she’s not working, Rebecca enjoys mountaineering, scuba diving, and rock-climbing, and never says no to a game of touch football or netball!

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Shuchi Gupta

Shuchi Gupta

Shuchi has experience in public and private physio settings, in both Australia and India. She believes in individualised exercise-based treatment strategies for managing conditions, and has a special interest in musculoskeletal injuries of the spine, shoulder and lower limb joints.

Outside of work, Shuchi enjoys reading and running.

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Melissa Oakey

Melissa Oakey

Before Melissa started her career, she used to play tennis six days a week. She has worked as a physiotherapist in acute orthopaedics and more recently in aged care.

Melissa enjoys bringing a positive energy to motivate and improve overall health and wellbeing.

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Jawad Niaz

Jawad Niaz

Jawad holds both a Bachelors and Masters of Physiotherapy, plus a Graduate Diploma in Migration Law. He has extensive experience as a physiotherapist, including acute, sub-acute, rehab and community health settings.

He is highly passionate about online education, volunteering his time to the Australian Association of Physiotherapists Trained Abroad, and speaks English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi fluently.

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Our Psychologists

Ross Leembruggen

Ross Leembruggen

Ross has over 22 years experience as a Psychologist, across a number of industries, in both the public and private sectors.

Areas he provides psychological intervention and support for include depression, anxiety, phobias, work-related stress, post-traumatic stress, substance abuse, addictions, sleep disorders, workplace conflict, relationship difficulties, financial difficulties, grief/loss, pain management, vocational guidance, and parenting difficulties, to name a few.

He is a compassionate, caring and committed professional, recognised for his ability to provide high quality, evidence-based psychological services to individuals, families and organisations, that make a difference.

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Our Operations Team

Esme Naidoo

Esme Naidoo

Esme is our Director of Operations. She has an extensive healthcare background, having founded her own medical practices and held senior corporate positions in healthcare.

She loves to travel with her family, as well as participating in anything physical oudoors including swimming, hiking, skiing and running.

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Amy Keam

Amy Keam

Amy is our Clinical Operations Manager, and has previously worked in general practice.

Outside of work, Amy enjoys travelling with her husband and friends, visiting family in Regional Victoria and spending time at home with her beloved cat, Thea.

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Martine McCash

Martine McCash

Martine is our Clinical Operations Associate. She has worked in administrative operation roles for 18 years.

Martine has a passion for crossfit and travelling around America with her husband and their 2 boys.

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Ben Thorneycroft

Ben Thorneycroft

Ben is our Logistics Manager. He has over 15 years of experience in logistics and distribution, with a passion for enhancing the customer experience.

With a background spanning multiple industries, he’s incredibly excited to be involved in helping XR Health establish itself in Australia.

Outside of work, most of his time is spent sharing a love of sports with his wife and 4 children.

A keen fan of a wide variety of sports, most weekends are split between spectating, coaching and/or playing football, basketball or soccer.

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Austin Phuong

Austin Phuong

Austin is our Support Engineer. He loves working in the I.T field as it is always evolving and changing. The work never feels repetitive as there are always new problems to solve. He wants to share his knowledge and provide assistance to other people to also enjoy the technology.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing online games with friends and visiting new restaurants that he has not been too.

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Meet Our Team

Our Physiotherapists

Darren Corea

Darren Corea

Tung Ngo

Tung Ngo

Natashie Furmie

Natasha Furmie

Joel Nucum

Joel Nucum

Ustina Tawdrous

Ustina Tawdrous

Marco Cheung

Marco Cheung

Rebecca Tannous

Rebecca Tannous

Shuchi Gupta

Shuchi Gupta

Melissa Oakey

Melissa Oakey

Jawad Niaz

Jawad Niaz

Our Psychologists

Ross Leembruggen

Ross Leembruggen

Our Operations Team

Esme Naidoo

Esme Naidoo

Amy Keam

Amy Keam

Martine McCash

Martine McCash

Ben Thorneycroft

Ben Thorneycroft

Austin Phuong

Austin Phuong

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