Prof Richard Nigel Curtis (Paediatrician)

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Name
Dr Richard Nigel Mark Curtis
Qualifications
MBBS 1985
Occupation
Paediatrician
Gender
Male
Medical Specialties
Paediatrics

CLINICAL INTERESTS Prof Nigel Curtis has broad experience in paediatrics but particularly specialises in both common and rare infectious diseases in children, including recurrent and unusual infections, recurrent fevers, chronic infections, immunisations, tuberculosis, tropical and parasitic infections, and infections in the immunocompromised.

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE Prof Curtis is Head of Infectious Diseases at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and has over 20 years experience as a specialist in Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases. He is also Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Melbourne and leads the Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Research Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.

Prof Curtis trained in Cambridge, London and Vancouver, and has also worked for short periods in The Gambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. He has headed the Infectious Diseases Unit at the RCH Melbourne since 1998.

TRAVEL MEDICINE Prof Curtis is also an experienced travel medicine doctor with expertise in advising children and their families on travel vaccinations and the prevention of malaria and other infections common overseas, as well as infections in the returned traveller

Hospital Affiliations
Royal Children's Hospital - Parkville
Affiliated Clinics
Melbourne Paediatric Specialists

Practice Locations

NSW

Dr Nigel Curtis Rooms
Level 4
183 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000 
Australia
02 4323 1277
02 4323 1280

VIC

Melbourne Paediatric Specialists
Suite 4.3 Level 4
48 Flemington Road
Parkville VIC 3052 
Australia
03 9948 5005
03 8376 6246