About Dr Jubal John & the NeoPaeds team

Dr Jubal John

Dr Jubal is a neonatologist and general paediatrician with more than 20 years of clinical practice across New Zealand and Australia, including tertiary NICU, neonatal retrieval, and the Royal Children’s and Royal Women’s Hospitals in Melbourne. He consults at NeoPaeds Melbourne (Suite 9, Level 2, Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville) and attends as a paediatrician at Frances Perry House. Parent of three. LinkedIn.

Qualifications

• MBChB: University of Auckland, 2003
• FRACP (Paediatrics & Child Health): Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• AHPRA specialist registration: Neonatal & Perinatal Medicine · General Paediatrics
• DCH (Diploma in Child Health): University of Otago, 2007
• PGDip Business (Health Informatics): University of Auckland, 2005
• NeoResus instructor · former NETS/PIPER fellow (state-wide neonatal retrieval)

Areas of clinical expertise

Antenatal consultations · newborn examinations · feeding (breast, mixed, formula) · jaundice · blood-sugar issues · prematurity from 31+ weeks in private maternity (with tertiary NICU experience for earlier gestations) · 6-week follow-up review · neonatal resuscitation · neonatal retrieval.

Research and tools

Active in clinical research, and the developer of open-access neonatal tools used by clinicians and families in Australia, New Zealand and internationally — see for referrers. Publications appear in the career timeline below. Curious what a neonatologist actually is? Start here.

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How I work

Shared decision-making. I bring the medical training; you bring the day-to-day knowledge of your own child. I’ll explain what I’m thinking, the trade-offs, and where the evidence is strong or thin, then we decide together. No question is too small.

Continuity where it helps. Attending at Frances Perry House means I can usually meet you antenatally, see your baby in the first hours, round through the inpatient stay, and follow up in clinic once you’re home (the routine 6-week review, earlier when clinically needed), fewer handovers across the arc of care. The practice team, practice nurse Judy and reception, fits around that, alongside your MCH nurse, GP, lactation support and allied health.

The wellbeing of a baby is tied tightly to the wellbeing of their parents. I’ll ask how you’re sleeping, eating, coping. That’s not small talk; it’s part of the assessment.

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Career

Two decades, two streams

The journey to your consultation

Two careers, run in parallel since medical school: a neonatologist at the cot-side, and a builder of the clinical software behind it. Skim the birds-eye view, or open any era for the full detail.

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Clinical through-lines

• Tertiary NICU — neonatal intensive-care roles from 2009 onwards, including the Royal Women’s Hospital as fellow then consultant (to 2024).

• Private neonatal practice — the Melbourne Neonatal Network (2016–2023) was the first step into private neonatal care that led to NeoPaeds.

• Consultant general paediatrics — Ballarat (2014–2016): developmental & behavioural clinics, special care nursery and the paediatric ward.

1998 – 2005

Foundations

Medical school in Auckland — and, in parallel, a working career in IT that became a formal Health Informatics qualification.

Clinical · Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)Software · Postgraduate Diploma in Business (Health Informatics)

Clinical

1. 1998 – 2000

   Bachelor of Human Biology

   University of Auckland

2. 2001 – 2003

   Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)

   University of Auckland

3. 2003 – 2005

   House officer (PGY 1–2)

   Middlemore & Northshore Hospitals, Auckland

   General medicine, general surgery, obstetrics & gynaecology, orthopaedics.

Medical software

1. 1998 – 2000

   Server operator, Arts Faculty Computing

   University of Auckland

   First paid software role, undertaken alongside the Bachelor of Human Biology. Server administration, backup management, database development, and Y2K readiness through the rollover into the year 2000 — the start of the parallel software career.

2. 2000 – 2008

   Founder & Director, Metahelp Ltd

   Co-founded an IT services company with engineer friends — small-business IT through to 2004.

3. 2001

   Sun Certified System Administrator

   Sun Microsystems

4. 2002

   Microsoft Certified Professional (Win 2000) · Cisco CCNA coursework

5. 2003 – 2005bridge

   Postgraduate Diploma in Business (Health Informatics)

   University of Auckland

   The formal bridge between the two streams — a business-school informatics qualification undertaken during clinical training.

2005 – 2006

Health IT

A year inside the health-software industry — product management at Orion Health, with part-time clinical work alongside.

Clinical · Part-time clinical workSoftware · Clinical Consultant & Product Manager

Clinical

1. 2005 – 2006

   Part-time clinical work

   Wanganui & Wellington Hospitals, NZ

   Paediatric SHO shifts alongside the Orion role.

Medical software

1. 2004 – 2005

   CompTIA Linux+ · CompTIA A+

2. 2005 – 2006

   Clinical Consultant & Product Manager

   Orion Health, Auckland

   Four days a week: clinical vision and functional lead for Order Entry (e-prescribing) and clinical workflow products. One of two doctors shaping Orion’s overall clinical-product strategy.

3. 2006

   "Understanding CPOE design and implementation"

   HIC 2006 / HINZ 2006 Proceedings

   Peer-reviewed conference publication on lessons from Frankston Hospital e-prescribing rollout.

2006 – 2015

Specialist training

Paediatric and neonatal training across New Zealand and Australia — with continuing clinical-software work at Orion and the first NICU-grade tools.

Clinical · Founding Neonatal & Paediatric Retrieval RegistrarSoftware · PIPER Neonatal Worksheet & Drug Calculator — neocalc.app

Clinical

1. 2006 – 2007

   Paediatric SHO / Registrar

   Wanganui & Wellington Hospitals, NZ

   Includes paediatric oncology after-hours cover (Wellington).

2. 2007

   Diploma in Child Health (DCH) — with credit

   University of Otago

3. 2007 – 2009

   Paediatric Registrar

   Middlemore Hospital, Auckland

   Neonatal ICU (Level 3), general paediatrics, and relief neonatal rotations.

4. 2008

   Children’s Emergency Registrar

   Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland

5. 2009

   Neonatal ICU Registrar

   National Women’s NICU, Auckland

6. 2009 – 2010

   Paediatric Registrar (Rotating)

   Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

   Sunshine Hospital Level 2 nursery and RCH Emergency Department.

7. 2010

   Founding Neonatal & Paediatric Retrieval Registrar

   MedSTAR Kids, South Australia

   Part of the founding team — stabilisation and state-wide / inter-state transfer of sick neonates and children.

8. 2010 – 2011

   NICU Registrar

   Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

9. 2011 – 2013

   Neonatal Fellow — Tertiary NICU

   The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

10. 2012

    High-frequency ventilator bench-top research

    RWH / Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

    Two peer-reviewed publications on oscillatory ventilator performance (J Paediatr Child Health 2014; Pediatr Crit Care Med 2014).

11. 2013 – 2014

    Neonatal Retrieval Fellow

    NETS / PIPER, Royal Children’s Hospital

12. 2014 – 2015

    Paediatric Fellow

    Ballarat Base Hospital

    Developmental & behavioural paediatrics outpatients plus inpatient SCN and paediatric ward.

13. 2015

    Chief Neonatal Fellow

    The Royal Women’s Hospital (Feb – Aug)

Medical software

1. 2011 – 2013

   Clinical Consultant (intermittent)

   Orion Health

   Intermittent contract work alongside the Royal Women’s fellowship — continuing to guide Orion’s clinical-software implementation.

2. 2011PICU Cardiac Guide — picudoctor.org

   with Dr Marc Anders, RCH PICU

   Mobile-friendly PICU cardiac reference for the bedside clinician.

3. 2013PIPER Neonatal Worksheet & Drug Calculator — neocalc.app

   NETS / Royal Children’s Hospital

   Electronic worksheet and drug calculator for resuscitation and retrieval of newborns, developed during the retrieval fellowship — in continuous use by the PIPER neonatal team since 2013.

4. 2014paedsportal.com

   Community paediatrics resource built during the Ballarat fellowship; still used as a structural reference today.

2015 – 2020

Consultant practice · clinician-built tools

Transition to consultant practice across regional and metropolitan services, paired with a growing catalogue of open clinical tools used beyond his own practice.

Clinical · Neonatal & General PaediatricianSoftware · Victorian Paediatric Rural Advanced Training Site

Clinical

1. 2015 – 2016

   Sessional Paediatrician

   Ballarat Health Service & St John of God Ballarat

   Consultant general paediatrics: outpatient clinics, special care nursery and paediatric ward.

2. 2016 – 2023

   Neonatal & General Paediatrician

   Melbourne Neonatal Network

   His first private neonatal practice — caring for babies at the three major Melbourne metropolitan private maternity hospitals (St Vincent’s Private, Epworth Freemasons, Frances Perry House).

3. 2016 – ongoing

   NeoResus Instructor

   Neonatal resuscitation teaching faculty — Victorian program.

Medical software

1. 2016Victorian Paediatric Rural Advanced Training Site

   vprat.org

   Active directory of rural and regional paediatric advanced-training posts.

2020 – present

NeoPaeds Melbourne · AI-era clinical software

Independent consultant practice alongside research-grade informatics — extreme-preterm outcome prediction, a state-wide trainee match platform, and a formal step into AI in healthcare.

Clinical · NeoPaeds MelbourneSoftware · NIC-PREDICT

Clinical

1. 2020 – 2024

   Neonatal Consultant (Casual)

   The Royal Women’s Hospital

   Neonatal consultant cover in the tertiary NICU.

2. 2022 – 2024

   Neonatal Clinical Lead

   Epworth Freemasons

3. 2023 – ongoing

   NeoPaeds Melbourne

   Suite 9, Level 2, Royal Women’s Hospital · Frances Perry House

   Private neonatal & general paediatric practice for families in Melbourne.

4. 2023"Neonatal early-onset sepsis"

   O&G Magazine, Summer 2023

5. 2024 – ongoingAIROPLANE Trial — Associate Investigator

   Site PI, Frances Perry House

   Multi-centre trial of air versus 30% oxygen for initial resuscitation of late-preterm infants.

Medical software

1. 2021NIC-PREDICT

   nic-predict.com.au — with Dr R Boland, Prof J Cheong, Prof L Doyle

   Extreme-preterm outcome calculator for clinicians and families — peer-reviewed Victorian data.

2. 2021

   Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

   MIT Sloan School of Management

3. 2021sepsiscalc.org

   Localised implementation of the Kaiser Permanente early-onset sepsis regression equations for Australian practice.

4. 2022VPAT — Victorian Paediatric Advanced Training

   vpat.au

   State-wide match platform. Used by paediatric advanced trainees to match to over 300 training positions.

5. 2024AIROPLANE data-capture platform

   QR-to-REDCap data acquisition for the AIROPLANE trial — interfacing with the REDCap API.

6. 2024 – 2025Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program (Cohort 3)

   AUSCEP

   Clinician-entrepreneur program for developing healthcare innovations.

Outside the clinic

Learning Mandarin, running, and being a father of three. I aim to pass a love of science on to my kids — and mostly end up getting schooled by them.

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The NeoPaeds team

Behind Dr Jubal, a small team keeps your care joined-up.

Judy Jackson: Practice Nurse

Judy is a registered nurse and midwife with decades of experience in postnatal care, special care nurseries and neonatal nursing across Melbourne maternity services, including Epworth Freemasons, Sunshine Hospital and the Royal Women’s Hospital neonatal nurseries. She is also a trained phlebotomist.

For babies under Dr Jubal’s care, Judy provides postnatal phone support in the first six weeks after birth, a familiar, experienced voice for weight and settling questions, and organises investigations and follow-up, so tests and appointments are arranged without you chasing them. For breastfeeding and lactation support, we point families to the Frances Perry House Maternity Care Centre.

Practice administration

Our practice manager, Martha Kajfes, keeps the practice running behind the scenes. On reception, Lina and Brylee are your first point of contact for bookings, referrals, fee estimates, and Medicare / health-fund queries. Email admin@neopaeds.au or call (03) 9007 2099 (Mon–Fri 9–5).

Paediatrician colleagues

Dr Jubal shares consulting rooms and an administration team with three other paediatricians: Dr Diana Johnston, Dr Sarah Nguyen and Dr Sally Gates.

Each runs a fully independent practice: your baby’s care, medical records and billing stay with the paediatrician you choose. What they share is the reception and admin team (so the same familiar people manage bookings and answer the phone for everyone) and reciprocal after-hours and leave cover: when Dr Jubal is off duty, a covering colleague looks after anything urgent on his behalf, and Dr Jubal resumes your baby’s care on his return.

Your wider circle of care

Around the practice, your baby’s care is shared with your obstetrician and midwife, your GP, your Maternal & Child Health nurse (13 22 29), the Frances Perry House Maternity Care Centre for breastfeeding and lactation support, and allied health when needed. While you are an inpatient, the Frances Perry House midwifery team is your around-the-clock first point of contact and can reach the on-call paediatrician at any time.

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Where to find us

• NeoPaeds Melbourne: Suite 9, Level 2, Royal Women’s Hospital, 20 Flemington Road, Parkville VIC 3052
• Frances Perry House: inpatient newborn care
• Phone, (03) 9007 2099 (Mon–Fri 9–5) · Email, admin@neopaeds.au

Babies are seen at your obstetrician’s request; that referral lasts three months, after which a GP referral (valid 12 months) continues the Medicare rebate.

Bookings and enquiries

Email admin@neopaeds.au or call (03) 9007 2099 to book an antenatal consultation or newborn review.

Photography by Kelly Jordan and Mihka Photography, used with permission.