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"Walking together in kindness" artwork produced for Gold Coast Health by Riki Salam, We are 27 Creative.
MBBS Dip Paed FRACP
Professor Doug Shelton is a paediatrician who has sub-specialised in community paediatrics and child development. Prof Shelton is the Clinical Director, Women’s, Newborns and Children’s Services at Gold Coast Health. Prof Shelton’s special interest areas are Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) for which he achieved a Churchill Fellowship 2013-14 to investigate how to build a comprehensive assessment and intervention service for children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; Indigenous child health; child development and learning problems; obesity; and leadership versus management and how to do both better. Prof Shelton was a member of the Queensland State Committee, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Deputy chair, 2007 – 2008 and Chair 2009 – 2010) and held several statewide committee membership roles in across paediatrics, child development and child health services and well as being involved in curriculum development for paediatric training in community child health.
