Hi I’m Dr Billy. I am a dad, podcaster and a developmental paediatrician with over 20 years’ experience working with children and families in a number of settings. I am passionate about helping those who care for kids – parents, educators, sports coaches, clinicians – by advancing their ability to guide healthy child development and wellbeing. I’m about finding the ‘sweet spot’ between the medical textbooks and real life when it comes to looking after our kids.
Please reach out if you would like me to come and talk with your team or community.
“Billy may not look like one of Australia’s most respected and in-demand paediatricians, as we speak about in the episode, but gee whiz, he sure does talk like it!”
“He’s the kinda guy you want to constantly hear more from”
About Dr Billy
Billy’s pathway to becoming a medical specialist is a little different. He was born and raised in Frankston, a tough outer-suburb in Melbourne Australia, and lived in ‘Franga’ until his mid-twenties, working in varying part time roles from age 14, including as a hospital cleaner, childcare worker, factory line worker, bartender, supermarket night fill and forklift driver.
His most formative job was working for 6 years in childcare at Frankston City Council – the same childcare he had attended while his mum (who moved from Ireland to Australia as a teenager, pregnant and on her own) struggled to balance 3 jobs and raise 3 boys.
It was his time working in childcare (and also his experience getting kicked out of high school) that drove his desire to pursue developmental paediatrics and use his upbringing and life experience to help support other families and kids.