Carolyn graduated from Monash University in 2011 with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) with Honors. She commenced work in Paediatrics in 2013, initially at the Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne) and Monash Children’s Hospital. In 2018 Carolyn moved to the Northern Territory to work in various inpatient and outpatient paediatric registrar roles in Darwin, Katherine, and Alice Springs. This included work with several First Nations’ health services in urban and remote locations. She continues to provide regular paediatric outreach clinics to two remote communities in the NT.

Carolyn became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 2022, and has been a member of the Australasian Society of Developmental Paediatricians (ASDP) since 2020. Most recently, Carolyn worked in Adelaide with a multidisciplinary paediatric developmental clinic, and in the state-wide South Australian neonatal and paediatric retrieval service. Carolyn’s practice in diverse health settings, and work with families who experience barriers to healthy living circumstances, prompted her to enrol in Masters of Public Health in 2021.

Carolyn enjoys working with children, families, and support persons to identify strengths-based pathways to positive outcomes. She takes care to listen carefully and understand the individual circumstances and context in each child’s story. She works collaboratively with GP specialists, non-GP specialists, and Allied Health professionals.

Outside of work, Carolyn loves cycling, scuba diving, baking, and knitting – one day she hopes to do all four at once.

Please note that while formal allied health and psychometric assessments can be extremely helpful as an aid in the assessment of your child, Dr Carolyn is an individual practitioner and will determine a diagnosis and management plan based on her own assessment of all available clinical information, and noting context of the presenting issue/s. This opinion may or may not concur with a diagnosis provided in prior reports, or one required for NDIS funding purposes.

Disclaimer: All tenant doctors and other practitioners operating at Cairns Paediatrics on Barr St are independent contractors. Each practitioner is solely responsible for their own fees, policies, conduct, professional services and each operate under their own ABN. Cairns Paediatrics on Barr St provides support and administrative services to its tenants but does not oversee or assume responsibility for their professional activities.

Fees:

This is a private billing clinic.  Medicare rebates are available to those who are eligible.