Austin Health: Staff

Senior medical staff

Professor Ingrid Scheffer
Director of Paediatrics

Professor Scheffer is a paediatric neurologist and epileptologist. Her research focuses on epilepsy and autism. She has published extensively and is the Chair of Paediatric Neurology Research at the University of Melbourne.

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Dr Anton Harding
Paediatrician

Dr Anton Harding is a consultant paediatrician and paediatric endocrinologist. He has worked in the Paediatrics Department for the last 17 years and has an appointment at the Royal Children's Hospital. Dr Harding also runs the paediatric diabetes service at Austin Health and helps coordinate the management of patients with eating disorders with Austin Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.

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Dr Pei Yoong Lam
Paediatrician

Dr Pei Yoong Lam is a general paediatrician with an interest in developmental paediatrics and adolescent medicine. She also works at the Royal Children's Hospital as well as in the north-eastern suburbs and has an interest in managing eating disorders.

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Dr Lionel Lubitz
Paediatrician

Dr Lionel Lubitz is a general paediatrician with an interest in adolescents with conditions that break the psyche/soma divide. He established the Austin Health Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Program (the first of its kind in Australia).

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Dr Ian Rawlinson
Paediatrician

Dr. Rawlinson is a general paediatrician covering children from neonates to adolescents. His practice covers the Northeastern region of Melbourne. He has a lot of experience and interest in adolescent medicine, mother-baby issues, child disability, behavioural and educational problems.

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