Dr Tanya Coulson

Doctor specialising in medical weight loss

Born and raised in rural WA, Tanya completed her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Western Australia in 2002. She spent several years working at Fremantle Hospital before moving to Kalgoorlie to begin her GP training in 2007. After moving to Bunbury, she completed her training and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in 2012. In 2013, Tanya began surgical assisting as well as working in primary care medicine. For several years now she has worked alongside Dr Werapitiya, gaining valuable experience in both weight loss surgery and medicine.

She has particular interest and expertise in the long-term care of patients following weight loss surgery, as well as the use of weight loss medications as part of an individualised and comprehensive weight loss program. Tanya now almost exclusively works in the field of weight loss surgery and medicine.

Bariatric Physician

A holistic team approach

Our multidisciplinary team offers a holistic approach to your weight loss journey.

With a team consisting of your bariatric surgeon, Dr Werapitiya, along with Dr Tanya Coulson, bariatric practitioner, Lisa Moore our bariatric dietitian, and anaesthetists as well as hospital staff, we form an experienced team offering personalised and comprehensive care to ensure your ongoing long-term health.

Why choose us?

Benefits of choosing a local surgeon

There are many benefits to having surgery close to home. You are going to have many appointments before and after weight loss surgery. These can be difficult and costly if you have to travel a long distance.

Although rare, serious complications that requires urgent medical attention can occur anytime after weight loss surgery. With most weight loss procedures, long term follow up can help prevent or minimise weight regain and allow early recognition of complications. For these reasons it’s important for you to have easy access to your surgeon.

If you live within our region choosing WA Weight Loss Centre makes it much easier to visit with your local surgical team, get your questions answered and feel comfortable going into surgery. We also provide you with full long term follow up and advice at no extra cost.

Choose a team that you can trust

Our experienced team at WA Weight Loss Centre is there to answer any questions you may have and to make you feel comfortable and supported. At no time in the process you will feel pressured to decide in favour of surgery or choose a particular procedure. We also provide wide range of surgical and non surgical options and happily refer you for a second opinion if and when required.

Choose a team with lot of experience

Dr Werapitiya is a fellowship trained bariatric Surgeon with over 15 years experience in the field and had performed over  5000 weight loss procedures. At WA Weight Loss Centre we have a broad experience offering primary (first time) and revisional (re-do) surgery and capability to handle after surgery issues.

Our practice regularly contributes data to the Bariatric Surgery Registry in Australia and have results comparable to the best. Because of our board experience, volume of surgery and the well trained, dedicated team, our complication rate is very low.

Dr Werapitiya is a leader in One Anastomosis gastric Bypass in Australia and has got teaching and research interests in this field.

We help you choose the most appropriate surgery for you

At WA Weight Loss Centre we understand that surgery is not for everbody and no single weight loss surgery procedure suits everyone. We offer a wide range of weight loss surgeries. After initial assessment our team will guide you to choose the best procedure for your needs.

With us you will have the same out of pocket expense for every weight loss procedure (primary or revision) and you will be free to choose the most appropriate surgery without the cost of surgery influencing your decision. We offer gastric band removal in preparation for revision surgery at no out of pocket expense.