About Essence of Health
Here we profile the staff employed at the clinic.
Dr Sue Levin
MB ChB FRNZCGP Dip.Nat. AACNEM
Sue graduated from the University of Dundee Medical School in 1986. She then went on to gain extensive experience in both hospital and community medicine. It was after working fulltime in General Practice for several years that Sue began to recognise the limitations of conventional western medicine and began the first of many studies in complementary and integrative medicine.
She qualified as a naturopath with the Naturopathic College of New Zealand in early 2001 and, as her training and interest progressed she developed her practice to specialise in treating chronic health issues and preventative medicine.
Until recently she held a post as a transfusion medical officer for the New Zealand Blood Service and now works as a medical officer with a hyperbaric medicine unit in Christchurch, having completed her primary hyperbaric medical residential course at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.
Dr Levin has a fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, membership of the Royal College of Practitioners (UK), Diploma in Naturopathy (NZ), and is an associate of the Australian Integrative Medical Association and the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.
Her training encompasses intravenous nutrition and intravenous vitamin C (ACNEM), bio-identical hormones (PCNZ), and MINDD practitioner training in autism. She regularly attends seminars and updates in the area of herbal and nutritional medicine.
Email: sue.levin@o2health.co.nz
Dr Sue Evans
MB ChB FRNZCGP Dip O&G DipComEmMed Diplomate ABAARM MA(hons)
Sue graduated from the University of Otago in 1987. Her postgraduate training consisted of some years in hospital work in Christchurch and three years of emergency medicine in Melbourne before embarking into general practice. She has worked in a variety of posts including several years in the Hokianga, four years in Oman and the UAE, as well as positions in outback Australia and urban New Zealand. She has recently returned to live in Christchurch after several years working as a rural GP in West Australia.
She has always had an eclectic approach to medicine and been interested in complementary approaches to health. Years of general practice has convinced her that a preventative approach to health care is preferable to dealing with the onset and sequellae of chronic disease. She developed a keen interest in the role of nutrition after attending the Primary course of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM). Since then she has attended several special training programs in IV nutrition, cholation therapies, natural management of hormonal problems, GI health, as well as the Australian College of Holistic Medicine Nutrition Medicine workshop in 2008.
Most recently Sue has worked towards attaining Board certification with the American Board of Anti-Ageing Regenerative Medicine. She will attain this qualification in late 2010.
Sue has current vocational registration with the NZ College of General Gractitioners and is an associate member of the Australasian Academy of Anti-Ageing Medicine and ACNEM. She regularly attends seminars and updates in both conventional and nutritional medicine.
Sue is married with one daughter. She now lives with her family on a lifestyle block outside of Christchurch along with a collection of various pets.
