Expert diagnosis, management and return to play for all sporting injuries
Dr Mark Muller
BHB, MBChB, FRNZCGP, PGDipSM, FACSEP
Mark is a Sport and Exercise Physician and director of Summit Sports Medicine. Sport and Exercise Physicians or "Sports Physicians" are medical doctors who have completed additional medical specialist training program (at the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians, ACSEP)
Mark studied at the University of Auckland before moving to Mount Maunganui in 2002 to begin work as a doctor at Tauranga Hospital. He established a broad background in medicine across various specialties in New Zealand, Australia and England. He initially pursued an interest in Emergency medicine before obtaining Fellowships in General Practice and finally Sport and Exercise Medicine.
He was awarded the medal for first place in the 2016 Sport and Exercise Medicine Fellowship examinations.
He was also awarded first place in the clinical examinations for General Practice Fellowship examinations in 2012.
Mark has a passion for all things sporting including playing, coaching, watching and fixing sports people! He is an avid surfer and snowboarder and enjoys free diving, scuba diving and fishing.
Mark continues his usual consultant role including twice weekly acute clinics, with no ACC copayment required from patients. He will review Tayla's patients as required.
Dr Tayla Smit
MBChB (Distinction)
We are delighted to announce the addition of a highly skilled sports medicine doctor to our practice, to assist with our prolonged waiting times:
Tayla has passed her surgical entrance examinations and sport and exercise medicine entrance examinations. She has completed 15 months as a registrar in hospital orthopaedics and one year as a sports medicine doctor in private practice in Christchurch. She has now been able to return home to the Mount for 2025. Her goal is to complete the Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine and to get accepted on to the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians training programme.
Tayla is also a passionate runner and triathlete herself and represented at the world triathlon event in 2024 in Spain. She is training for Ironman 2025. She has 10 years dance experience also.
Tayla shares our commitment to providing outstanding care to our patients and with her arrival we will be able expand our capacity to accept more new referrals in a timely manner. Patients who have been triaged with a waiting time of months will now have the option of seeing Tayla in weeks instead. This will require an ACC co-payment from the patient of $120 for an initial appointment and $70 for a review appointment. Tayla will be available on Mondays and Fridays from 3 February 2025 to help.
Dr Muller will also review Tayla’s patients who are requiring specialist imaging and/or further specialist opinion.
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