Fiona Noble
Fiona is an experienced general paediatrician specialised in the care of young people with medical, developmental, and behavioural problems from birth through to adolescence. Working in Ballarat since 2008, Fiona graduated from Monash University in 1995 with honours and went on to train as a paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Mercy Hospital for Women and Royal Darwin Hospital and is a senior lecturer with Melbourne University.
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David Tickell
David completed his paediatric training through the Royal Children’s Hospital, before working in Albury-Wodonga. He then worked in Malawi, Africa running a large unit dealing with many tropical diseases, malnutrition, TB and HIV.
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Mark Nethercote
Mark is a General Paediatrician, born and bred in Ballarat, who returned in 2011 with his wife…
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Shabna Rajapaksa
Shabna is a general Paediatrician. She graduated with honours from Cambridge University and completed her paediatric training in Nottingham, Oxford and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. She holds degrees in Neuroscience and a Masters in Medical Education and is a Fellow to the Royal Australian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK).
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Austen Erasmus
Austen is a South African trained Paediatrician who initially worked in the Johannesburg area before working in Botswana for 9 years. He then emigrated to Australia in 2006 to work in the Sale, where he continued his special interests in neurodevelopmental and behavioural paediatrics, and also provides outreach paediatric services to Horsham.
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Lakshman Doddamani
Lakshman is a consultant general paediatrician at Ballarat Health Services with a strong interest in neuro-developmental and behavioural paediatrics. He completed his paediatric training in the UK. Lakshman has also worked in Mildura, taught at Monash Rural Medical School, and was an honorary senior lecturer in the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
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Megan Freeman
Megan completed her paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Mercy Hospital for Women. More recently she has been working with the Paediatric Infant and Perinatal Retrieval services as a retrieval Doctor for sick infants. Despite thoroughly enjoying her time there she is very excited to be returning to her home town of Ballarat.
She is passionate about all aspects of paediatric medicine, however, has particular interests in neonatal medicine, adolescent eating disorders and childhood adversity and mental health, and also provides outreach paediatric services to Stawell. On days off, Megan can be seen running the lake with her beloved dog Bruno!
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Chamilka Edirisinghe
Chamilka is a general paediatrician with more than 20 years’ experience in all aspects of Paediatrics (newborns to adolescents) including, behavioural problems (Autism, ADHD), developmental problems (developmental delay, learning difficulties), growth concerns and feeding problems, management and coordination of care for children with chronic illnesses or complex needs such as Asthma, eczema and allergies
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Alicia Williams
Alicia completed her early paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Mercy Hospital for Women, prior to undertaking the latter years of her training in Ballarat.
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Jenna Pyper
Jenna was born and raised in Canada before moving and studying medicine in Melbourne. She completed her Paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital and surrounding hospitals before moving to Ballarat to
finish up her training.
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Nelu Jayawardena
Nelu completed her Paediatric training through the Royal Children’s Hospital and has worked at a range of hospitals in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
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Alice Donnan
Alice completed her medical degree at the University of Melbourne. She trained as a paediatrician through both the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and Grampians Health in Ballarat. Alice works with children with a wide range of medical, behavioural and developmental problems.
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