Meet our panel of medical specialists

Katie is one of Melbourne’s most sought after developmental and behavioural paediatricians. Her clinical interests include child behaviour problems, developmental and learning disorders (including ASD and ADHD), sleep problems of infants and children, infant distress and general paediatric medicine. She graduated MBBS from University of Melbourne in 1990, and obtained her specialist qualification in paediatrics, FRACP, in 1998, then went on to obtain a post graduate degree in 2003. Katie developed her passion for working in paediatrics whilst working in the Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, and undertaking advanced training in Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrics... read more »

Dr Nigel Crawford is a consultant general paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH), Parkville, Melbourne. He did his undergraduate degree at The Flinders University of South Australia and has a Masters of Public Health (MPH) from Cardiff University, Wales and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.He has a special interest in vaccines and is Medical Head of the RCH Immunisation service and the Director of SAEFVIC (an immunisation vaccine safety and surveillance research group) based at the Melbourne Children’s campus... read more »

Professor Nick Freezer is a Paediatric Respiratory Physician and the Medical Director of the Monash Children’s Hospital, Melbourne at Monash Health. He is also a Professor of Paediatrics at Monash University, and until recently the Leader of the Children’s Health research theme of Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre and Monash Health Translation Precinct. A practicing respiratory and sleep physician for over 20 years and with over 100 papers and abstracts published in peer review journals, Prof Freezer was among the first researchers to alert the world to the dangers of overdosing asthmatic children with inhaled corticosteroids and the benefits of using steroids to treat croup. Previous roles include the Director of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne (2000-2005) and Monash Medical Centre (1995-2006). .. read more »