About Us

He went on to complete Diplomas in both Tropical Medicine and Disaster Relief. He moved to Australia to work as an Emergency Doctor and has worked overseas doing humanitarian work during this time. He remains a reserve field doctor for Doctors without Borders, in the event of a global natural disaster.

During his time working in the Emergency Department, he gained an interest in cosmetic medicine and practiced this extensively alongside emergency medicine, working with Fresh Clinics and independently as a cosmetic injector. He became interested in hair transplant and was trained internally under Dr Sam and Thelma at Elite Hair Clinic in the latest micro FUE transplant techniques. He has also trained internationally with the London Hair Restoration Training Academy and is completing a Professional master’s degree in Hair Transplantation. Dr Will has now taken over from Dr Sam as Lead Hair Transplant Doctor for EHC.

FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction).

In 2000, Thelma developed an interest in hair transplantation and began her training under Dr Peter Panagotacos, a pioneering member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) since 1994. Dr Panagotacos is a renowned Dermatologist and Hair Transplant Specialist in San Francisco who is well respected within the medical community for his technical skill, conservative treatment philosophy, and surgical artistry. Thelma also worked alongside her sister, Carmen Pollard who was Dr Panagotacos’s Senior Technician at the time.

While with Dr Panagotacos, Thelma was also responsible for setting up workshops and seminars for the purpose of training and educating Doctors and Technicians.

Thelma then brought these skills to Australia and has since worked with leading Hair Transplant doctors and surgeons around Australia, New Zealand, USA and England. She has been in the medical field for over 25 years and is passionate about the science and evolution of Hair Restoration. Thelma is a highly respected mentor within her field and has trained many other, now highly skilled and successful hair transplant technicians.

Thelma is constantly improving her skills, studying and tweaking her incredibly vast specialist techniques to make sure she is at forefront of FUE innovation and technology. She is currently completing further accreditation with the London Hair Restoration Training Academy to further add to her long list of continued training.

Thelma has now partnered up with Dr Will and together with their growing team they are delivering the best results to their patients!

Medicine in the early stages of his career, moving into General Practice in 2002. Dr Sam ran his own highly successful medical practice in Sydney for over 10 years prior to establishing Elite Hair Clinic with Thelma in 2016.

Dr Sam has run EHC with Thelma incredibly successfully and with fantastic results for the past 7 years. He has spent the last few years training the future doctors of Elite Hair Clinic in the most up to date and finely tuned methods of micro-FUE hair transplantation to ensure the clinic’s legacy continues. EHC provides the most up to date, safe, pain-free (ish) and successful FUE procedures possible with outcomes that rival any clinic nationally AND internationally! Dr Sam has now stepped down to go back to working as a GP for the final few years in the run up to his retirement. He is still actively involved as an advisor, mentor and friend of Elite Hair Clinic!

He has rotated through many surgical centres of excellence in Dublin, Melbourne and Sydney in the areas of plastic surgery, orthopaedic surgery and general surgery. He is currently completing a masters of surgery at the University of Sydney. He is also interested in the area of facial aesthetics and offers consultations to help in achieving your most confident you!