MEET OUR TEAM
Diabetes Care Centurion would like to introduce our newest Locum Physicians: Dr. Elschke Benade and Dr. Elaine Strauss. Their exceptional expertise and unwavering commitment to providing top-notch healthcare are certain to make a valuable contribution to our team.
Dr. Elschke Benade
After matriculating in the beautiful town of Tzaneen, I completed my MBChB medical degree at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein in 2016.
We then moved to Gauteng where I completed my practical training in Pretoria, and soon after started my career as a private GP.
I started working at Diabetes Care Centurion in June 2022 and fell in love with the world of diabetes care.
Since then I have completed the ‘CDE Foundation course in Diabetes Management’ and am looking forward to qualifying myself as a Diabetologist in the near future.
I am passionate about healthy living and wish to share some of this with my patients.
When not at work, I’m a proud mom of our two boys, Hiluan and Eckert, with my loving husband, Tiaan, by my side.
Dr. Elaine Strauss
I am a family practitioner that qualified at Stellenbosch University in 1990.
I spent 20 years abroad: in the UK (6 months), The Netherlands, USA, Canada & Tanzania (Arusha 2 years) leading to an intense interest in and fascination with the diversity and universality of our cultures, needs and desires. I have a special interest in psychiatry, endocrinology (diabetes, obesity), healthy lifestyle and lifestyle illness.
I currently work as the GP at Vistaclinic, a 158- bed private psychiatric hospital in Centurion. I also work 2 days a week at Diabetes Care, a specialized diabetes practice, and a group family practice in Centurion.
My approach to medicine and healing is an inclusive bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach as I view each patient as a unique, integrated, holistic being where any illness in one system is inseparable from the whole and thus cannot be treated in isolation.
Christel Olivier
Dr Olivier has been practicing in the field of diabetes since 2005
Rona van Tonder
Diabetes educator and narrative therapist and lifestyle coach
Monique Bailey
Improve health by educating and giving practical, personalised advice to patients
Andrika de Jager
Exercise specialist who increases a persons physical condition by means of assessment and the prescription of health exercise habits
Nadine Coetzer
Diabetes nurse educator and specialized insulin pump educator
Helen Robins
Medical specialists who help with problems that affect your feet or lower legs.
Yolinda Dippenaar
Improve health by educating and giving practical, personalised advice to patients
