At Prince of Wales, we have highly experienced, qualified and supportive specialist Neonatologists working at our hospital. Their focus is on the medical care of newborn infants, particularly those in our Special Care Nursery. Our team of Neonatologists provide 24-hour comprehensive care, including monitoring vital signs, managing respiratory distress, and addressing any health issues that may arise in the first few weeks of life.
We are fortunate to be the only private hospital in Sydney with a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the hospital (Royal Hospital for Women) to help provide back up in the unlikely event of an emergency. We also have the distinct advantage of being on the same campus as the Sydney Children’s Hospital and it's Intensive Care Unit, so a full range of subspecialty services can be accessed on site if required, avoiding the need for transportation to another facility.
Dr Anjali Dhawan
Neonatologist and Paediatrician
Dr Anjali Dhawan has been providing care to newborns and their families for over a decade.
She focusses on the care of premature babies as well as babies with low birth weight or other problems, including those that occur post-surgically. Dr Dhawan has expertise in performing formal Bayley Scales III development assessments and providing early intervention follow up. She works closely with parents to provide the best evidence based care possible for their little ones.
Dr John Smyth
Neonatologist and Paediatrician
Dr Smyth is a senior neonatologist. He worked in both paediatrics and neonatology in New Zealand and the United Kingdom for 17 years. He has travelled around the world and his areas of interest include EEG monitoring, neonatal ventilation, palliative care, infection control and education.
Dr Gary Williams
Paediatrician and Paediatric Intensive Care Physician
Gary completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Sydney then undertook specialist paediatric training in Sydney, London, Cambridge and Nigeria. He obtained FRACP in 1991 then completed a Fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care at Children’s Medical Centre Dallas USA and returned to Australia to take up a post as Staff Specialist in Children’s Intensive Care at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick in 1995, a post which he still holds. His particular interests include muscle physiology and sepsis/inflammation.
Dr Parag Mishra
Neonatologist and Paediatrician
Dr Parag Mishra is a senior neonatologist who has been working for more than 15 years at RHW and is a Medical Advisory Committee at Prince of Wales Private hospital. His area of neonatal interest includes neonatal ventilation and resuscitation, resident training and education, medical student education and that is only a few of his comprehensive list of favourite topics.
Dr Kevin Swil
Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Specialist and Paediatrician
Dr Kevin Swil provides comprehensive paediatric care for neonates, children and their families from birth through to 16 years of age. As a Senior Intensive Care Specialist at a major tertiary hospital, Kevin is accustomed to caring for the sickest neonates and children from all across NSW.
Kevin is dedicated to delivering the best possible outcome for children and their families through evidence based care and research.
Dr Ju Lee Oei
Neonatologist and Paediatrician
Dr Ju Lee Oei is a senior neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Women, a Visiting Medical Officer in addiction medicine at the Murrumbidgee Local Health District, a Conjoint Professor of Paediatrics at the University of New South Wales and a research affiliate at the University of Sydney’s NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre.
Dr Oei’s research and clinical expertise is in the resuscitation of sick newborn infants and in the care of mothers, babies and families affected by drugs of addiction and dependency, where she is the leading Australian researcher.
Dr Meredith Ward
Neonatologist and Paediatrician
Dr Meredith Ward is a senior neonatologist. Her clinical interests include supporting parental involvement in their child’s care, through the Family Integrated Care program, optimising neurodevelopmental aspects of neonatal intensive care for both term and preterm infants, optimising perioperative care of the sick neonate, and long term management of infants affected by maternal substance use during pregnancy.