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Royal Children's Hospital

Royal Children's Hospital

The Royal Children's Hospital is a specialist paediatric hospital and provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents. The hospital is the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, and also cares for children from Tasmania and southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.

As the major paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides clinical, academic and advocacy services for children and young people throughout the state. It is internationally recognised as a leading centre for research and education.

In its role as a leading paediatric teaching centre, the hospital has affiliations with the University of Melbourne and LaTrobe University and links with other universities in post graduate studies.

The Royal Children's Hospital has a strong commitment to research. The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is based at the Royal Children's Hospital providing a bench to bedside process within our site.

Patients are referred to the Royal Children's Hospital from all over Australia and the Asia-Pacific rim countries.

The hospital was established in 1870 and has been located on its present site at Parkville in Melbourne, Australia since 1963. In 2006/2007 it treated approximately 35,000 in-patients, 190,000 children attended outpatient appointments and 60,000 children presented at our emergency department.


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Highlights

RPH's world-leading medical contributions include:

  • The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren for their groundbreaking research at Royal Perth Hospital between 1979 and 1984. Dr Warren was the first person to identify the spiral bacterium, Helicobacter pylori and Professor Marshall discovered that it caused gastritis-associated dyspepsia and ulcers, which also increased the risk of stomach cancer. Further studies by Dr Warren, Dr Barry Marshall and colleagues in the Departments of Anatomical Pathology, Microbiology and Gastroenterology between 1981 and 1987 determined that antibiotic treatment reduced ulcer recurrence.
  • The first electron microscopy demonstration of virus particles in patients with HIV infection, in 1983, by Dr John Armstrong and Mr Robert Horne of the Department of Anatomical Pathology.
  • The creation of one of the world's first Intra-aortic Stents, with Imaging Radiographer David Hartley and Vascular Surgeon Michael Lawrence-Brown, in 1994.
  • The world's first longitudinal stroke survivor research project, "The Perth Community Stroke Study" in 1989/1990.
  • In 1994, RPH started the first true Domiciliary Bone Marrow Transplant Service in the world.
  • In 2003, the discovery that every person with HIV has a different form of the virus and that it tailors itself to the individual's immune response. In 2005 RPH's Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics Executive Director, Professor Simon Mallal, and his team, received a grant of US $9.8 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue this research world wide.

Specialist / Department:

  • Allergy and Immunology
  • Anaesthesia & Pain Management
  • Audiology
  • Cardiac Surgery
  • Cardiology
  • Clinical Haematology
  • Dentistry
  • Dermatology
  • Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition
  • Gynaecology
  • Medical Imaging
  • Neonatal Unit
  • Nephrology
  • Speech Pathology
  • Neurology
  • Neuroscience Unit
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopaedics
  • Orthotic & Prosthetic Unit
  • Otolaryngology (ENT)
  • Palliative Care
  • Physiotherapy
  • Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Rehabilitation
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Rheumatology
  • Urology

List of Surgeries/Treatments:

  • Cardiopulmonary transplantation
  • Circulatory support (VAD and ECMO)
  • Minimally invasive techniques
  • Reconstructive valve surgery
  • General Gastroenterology
  • Liver & Liver Transplant
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Nutrition
  • Gastroscopy
  • Colonoscopy
  • Interventional endoscopy
  • Change of Gastrostomy
  • Balloon dilatation of strictures
  • Oesophageal pH monitoring
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBS)
  • Adolescent Gastroenterology

Doctors:

Gastroenterology

  • Associate Professor Anthony Catto-Smith
  • Associate Professor Mark Oliver
  • Associate Professor Winita Hardikar
  • Professor Julie Bines
  • Dr George Alex
  • Associate Professor Don Cameron
  • Dr Ralf Heine
  • Associate Professor Katie Allen
  • Dr. Annette Webb

Cardiology

  • Professor Daniel J Penny
  • Professor James L Wilkinson
  • A/Prof. Robert G Weintraub
  • A/Prof. Andrew M Davis
  • Dr Geoffrey K Lane
  • Dr Michael Cheung

Gynaecology

  • Dr. Paddy Moore
  • Dr. Yasmin Jayasinghe

Neurology

  • Dr Kevin Collins
  • Dr Jeremy Freeman
  • Dr Michael Hayman
  • Dr Rick Leventer
  • Dr Mark Mackay

Otolaryngology (ENT)

  • Assoc. Prof Robert Berkowitz
  • Mr Markus Dahm
  • Miss Caroline Ryan

Haematology

  • Professor Paul Monagle
  • Dr. Helen Savoia
  • Dr Janine Campbell
  • Dr Chris Barnes
  • Dr Anthea Greenway

Dentistry

  • Dr Denise Lawry
  • Dr Pei-Ti Lin
  • Dr Sue Needham
  • Dr Peter Scott

Ophthalmology

  • Deborah Colville
  • Susan Carden
  • Troy Lim Joon
  • David Mackey

Orthopaedics

  • Professor H Kerr Graham
  • Mr Leo Donnan
  • Mr Ian Torode
  • Mr Mark O'Sullivan
  • Mr Gary Nattrass


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