ABOUT YOUR DOCTOR
Dr Muthulakshmi Narasimhan (Muthu) is a paediatrician with speciality fellowship training in Paediatrics. She is highly skilled and has extensive experience in helping families and children since 2003, having worked and trained in Australia and India.
Dr Narasimhan is highly proficient in neonatal health & development including resuscitation of the new-born, paediatric endocrinology and diabetes, developmental and general paediatrics. She is an accredited paediatrician with AHPRA specialist recognition and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
Dr Narasimhan graduated from the Christian Medical College, Vellore – India's top medical training institute, with a Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). Having completed her paediatric residency at the same Institute, she went on to work there as a Consultant Paediatrician and Assistant Professor before relocating to Adelaide, South Australia. While in Adelaide she worked at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre as well as the Lyell McEwin Hospital. After top-up training in neonatology, paediatric emergency medicine, paediatric retrieval medicine, mental health, behavioural paediatrics and adolescent medicine, she obtained her Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).
Before moving to be with family in Ipswich, Dr Narasimhan has worked in Victoria since 2016 as Staff Specialist Paediatrician, where she has also held the position of Adjunct Lecturer at the Monash Rural School of Medicine. She has contributed to paediatric textbooks, presented in multiple international conferences and has publications in peer-reviewed journals to her name. She is passionate about medical education and well-liked by paediatric trainees and medical students.
Dr Narasimhan has a unique perspective on caring for families and children from regional and remote communities. Dr Narasimhan is friendly, approachable and is committed to providing an individualised and patient-centred approach to the care of her patients. She believes that every child deserves a bright future.