David's extensive training and experience, empathy, professionalism, relaxed nature and sense of humour make him well placed to care for children and their families.

General Paediatrics

David is happy to accept referrals for paediatric patients from the newborn period until late teenage years.

Metabolic Medicine

A Metabolic Physician cares for children and adults who have inherited metabolic (biochemical) diseases, for example the conditions detected on newborn screening.

Clinical Genetics

A Clinical Geneticist is a medical practitioner (either trained initially as a Paediatrician or an Adult Physician) who cares for children and adults with genetic conditions. Empathy and counselling skills are an essential aspect of being a Clinical Geneticist.

Common reasons why families may require the assistance of a Clinical Geneticist include:

• birth defects and congenital malformations
• antenatal abnormalities detected in the baby
• chromosome abnormalities
• developmental delay and intellectual impairment
• syndrome diagnosis
• deafness and visual impairments
• genetic counselling
• reproductive genetics ie prenatal testing for genetic disease
• family history of genetic diseases
• familial cancer syndromes