Peter McDougall

Peter McDougall trained in paediatrics as a neonatologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and the Bristol Maternity Hospital, UK before starting his consultant career in newborn medicine at the Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. He returned to the Royal Children’s Hospital in 1984. In 1998, after completing his MBA, he was appointed Director, Division of Medicine and Head of Neonatology at the Royal Children’s Hospital and was made Chief of Medicine in 2005. In 2010, he was appointed Executive Director of Medical Services and Clinical Governance at the Royal Children’s Hospital. With Associate Professor David Armstrong, he served as the Co-Clinical Lead of the Victorian Paediatric Clinical Network, Safer Care Victoria from 2014-2018. He was appointed Honorary Clinical Professor with the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics in 2015.

Peter has had a long commitment to quality and safety in hospital services, including: Chairing the inaugural Patient Safety Committee at the Royal Children’s Hospital from 1998-2016; membership of the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity from 1991-2018; and Director of Clinical Governance at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Since leaving the Royal Children’s Hospital, he has: served as a senior clinical advisor to the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity; conducted ad hoc reviews of hospital services; and as a member of the Steering Committee of the NSW Review of Health Services for Children and Young People in the NSW Health System.