Dr. John Fysh

John Fysh MBBS FRCP
Consultant Paediatrician

John Fysh first graduated from the University of Queensland in 1969. Since then, he has worked as a paediatrician firstly in Australia and then, for the past 30 years, as a consultant paediatrician at the Portland Hospital in London. He is currently Consultant to Starlight Paediatrics and, for the past four years, he has been Chief Medical Officer and a Director of start-up insurance company, Future Family Ltd.

Qualifications

• • MB BS in medicine from University of Queensland.
  • Postgraduate training: Initially at Royal Children’s & Mater Children’s in Brisbane. Then NHS Overseas Fellow in Neonatology in Bristol.

Posts

• • Consultant Paediatrician at Toowoomba Queensland where he started and established a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
  • Lecturer In Child Health, University of Bristol.
  • National Medical Research Fund Lecturer In Neonatal Nutrition and Metabolism at Kings College
  • Consultant Neonatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney.
  • Head of Paediatrics at the National Guard King Khalid Hospital Jeddah.
  • Consultant Paediatrician at The Portland Hospital London. Initially solo in “The Fysh Practice” and now Consultant to Starlight Paediatrics Ltd.
  • Chair of The Portland Hospital Paediatric Subcommittee for 10 years.
  • President of Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
  • Business: Chief Medical Officer and a Director of Future Family Ltd – a start-up insurance company for the last four years.
  • Previously Paediatric Medical Adviser to AXA PPP.