Dr Christos Symeonides

Dr Christos Symeonides is an experienced general and developmental paediatrician. Melbourne Kids is the only clinic where Christos sees private patients.

Christos has extensive experience in assessing, managing, and coordinating care for all paediatric medical problems, and he sees a wide range of medical issues in his role as a General Paediatrician. He has additional specialist expertise in childhood developmental concerns and developmental differences including Global Developmental Delay, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Specific Learning Disorders.

 

Christos studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and has worked as a paediatric doctor both in Scotland and in Melbourne. He completed specialist paediatric training through the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), as well as a foundation member of the Australasian Society for Developmental Paediatrics (ASDP, formerly Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia). He has been a member of the Senior Medical Staff at the Royal Children’s Hospital since 2016, where he works in the Centre for Community Child Health.

In addition to his clinical work, Christos is actively involved in medical education, public health and in research. Through his work at the Centre for Community Child Health, Christos teaches and supervises paediatric doctors who are completing specialist training in developmental and behavioural paediatrics. His research spans early childhood health and development, public health epidemiology, and human environmental toxicology, with a special expertise on human health effects of plastics through work with the Minderoo Foundation.

 

Christos’s philosophy is to understand each child’s developmental differences in their broader medical, emotional, developmental, and family context; to identify strengths as well as weaknesses; and to work in partnership with families, general practitioners, therapists and educators to help children and families maximise their potential.