Scott is an experienced and compassionate Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) specialist. He has trained and practised in multiple cities across Australia and overseas contributing to his matured clinical practice.

More than anything, he values the importance of patient-centred care. He ensures he listens to and understands the concerns of each individual child and family and offers his knowledge and experience to guide a patient focused discussion and plan for care.

As a father of two young children, Scott appreciates the importance of your child’s health, development and wellbeing.

Training & Development

Aside his consultation at Snap Paediatrics, Scott is a Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Emergency Medicine for Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, a Visiting Medical Officer in Paediatric Emergency Medicine for the Sydney Children’s Health Network and a Senior Lecturer for the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University. He is also an Alumni of Clinical Excellence Queensland’s Healthcare Improvement Fellowship.

Scott studied undergraduate Medicine and Surgery at Adelaide University and continued to complete the majority of his Paediatric specialist training across metropolitan and regional areas through the Women’s and Children’s Health Network of South Australia. He completed additional training through Fellowships in Paediatric and Neonatal Retrievals with MedSTAR SA and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.

He has worked as a Paediatric Emergency Specialist at the Children’s Hospital Westmead in Sydney where he helped to lead implementation of the Sepsis Kills program, Team Talks for daily patient-centred multidisciplinary rapid rounds in every ward throughout the Sydney Children’s Health Network and the establishment of the Improvement Academy - a Quality Improvement training program for the network.

Since assisting with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service’s transition to tertiary care in 2017 he has helped to establish an accredited Paediatric Emergency Department for junior doctors to train in his specialty and has led multiple patient-centred quality and system improvement projects, collaborating with a wide range of professionals and consumers both within and external to health.

Scott is a passionate educator and enjoys the challenge of translating his knowledge and experience into a form that can be understood by patients, families and the training doctors he supervises. He also supports training health professionals to care for critically ill and injured children as an Instructor and Director (Candidate) for Advanced Paediatric Life Support.