Professor Raghu Lingam
MBChB (Edin), MSc, DTMH, MRCPCH (Lon), FRACP (Sydney), PhD (Bristol)
Raghu Lingam is a professor of Paediatrics at the University of New South Wales and a Consultant Community and Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician within the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. He works clinically as a Senior Staff Specialist at the Tumbatin Neurodevelopmental Service at the Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick.
Professor Lingam works with young people and families living with ADHD, Autism, Intellectual Disability and other forms of neurodiversity. He is trained in the assessment and management of children with additional developmental needs. He works wholistically with young people and their families using a strengths-based model to optimise health and wellbeing outcomes.
Professor Lingam has thirty years of Developmental Paediatric experience, working in Edinburgh, London (Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital), Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, The Great North Children’s Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick.
He integrates his research with his daily clinical practice. From a Developmental Paediatric perspective, his research includes work looking at Autism, ADHD, Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia), Dyslexia and the overlap between developmental disorders. He has spoken around Early Child Development internationally including at the WHO, the New York Academy of Science and European Academy of Childhood Disability.