Scott is an experienced and compassionate Paediatrician with subspeciality training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM). He has practised in multiple cities across Australia and overseas, contributing to his mature clinical practice. He has over 10 years of experience as a Paediatric specialist.

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

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

Training & Development

As well as being one of the founders of Snap Paediatrics, Scott is a Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Emergency Medicine for Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service where he manages the Paediatric Emergency Department, provides and supervises clinical care and trains and educates junior doctors in best-practice Paediatric care. He is a Senior Lecturer for the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University and 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 South Australia through the Women’s and Children’s Health Network. He completed additional training through Fellowships in Paediatric and Neonatal Retrieval 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 led 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 contributed to the establishment of an accredited Paediatric Emergency Department for junior doctors to train in his specialty and led multiple patient-centred quality and system improvement projects, collaborating with a wide range of professionals and consumers both within and external to health. He continues to drive change in the public health system through patient-centred improvements and research.

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 Instructor Trainer for Advanced Paediatric Life Support.