People

You know what they say: it takes teamwork to make the dream work. And at Innovation Podiatry, our dream is to provide the highest level of lower limb care to our patients. To achieve this, we’ve put together a highly skilled, hard-working team.

Vanessa Ng
Senior Podiatrist + Director

Vanessa graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1996 and in 1999 decided to further her studies to become a qualified Podiatrist. She has worked in the high risk Queensland Diabetes clinics and completed her masters in Podiatry in 2010. Vanessa has a high interest in sports injuries and the high risk foot and in her spare time is found training with her triathlon multisport clubs and relaxing with her young family.

Youngho (James) Lee
Podiatrist

James has lived in Australia since 2012. Having finished a Diploma of hospitality and commercial cookery in 2014 and worked as a qualified chef at various hotels and restaurants in Australia.

Since he was young, James has continuously done volunteer work in third world countries where he had the chance to closely watch how health professionals were able to help people in need which had a huge impact on his career path.

Veronica Quinn
Podiatry Assistant, Registered Nurse

In 2016 Veronica Quinn graduated as a Registered Nurse from the Australian Catholic University and began specialising in geriatrics working in Nursing homes around Brisbane. This same year, due to the lack of health care jobs, Veronica decided to undertake her second degree at QUT,  studying a Bachelor of Podiatry, Graduate Entry, after seeing the need for podiatrists and lower limb specialists across the geriatric population.

Melissa Ward
Medical Admin

Melissa has been with Innovation Podiatry since 2014. When you don’t see her big beaming smile at the front desk, she’ll be having fun with her two beautiful daughters at home or cooking Teppanyaki at the local karaoke bar.

Tracy Gehrmann
Medical Admin

Tracy is a qualified Cert IV Veterinary Nurse who has worked in emergency and regular veterinary clinics on the Sunshine Coast. However, after completing her Bachelor of Business Management she has followed her passion to transition into Allied Health Administration.

Tracy and her husband have 2 sons and are also the proud parents of 2 gorgeous Labradoodles. When Tracy is not at work she loves relaxing with her family and taking her dogs for long walks.