Dr Naguesh Naik Gaunekar is an obstetrician and gynaecologist with more than 23 years’ experience. He has special interests in minimal invasive gynaecology, fertility and women’s ultrasonography; having undertaken advanced training in these areas. He also has a particular interest in male infertility and PCOS.

 

Dr Gaunekar completed his specialist training at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and obtained his Australian specialist qualifications in 2004. He worked as a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide before moving to Mackay.

 

Dr Gaunekar holds additional qualification in Women’s Ultrasound (DDU) from the Australasian Society of Ultrasound Medicine. He has received several international awards, including a gold medal for MD (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and was awarded the Beresford Buttery Travelling Fellowship for ultrasound (2005-2006) at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. In 2007 he represented Australia as winner of the Young Gynaecologist Award at the Asia and Oceania Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AOFOG) in Tokyo. 

 

He has previously served on the educational board for ALSO Asia Pacific and the State Committee of RANZCOG South Australia. He is an examiner for RANZCOG and James Cook University’s Medical School.