Dr Newton has the following qualifications & accreditation:

• MB ChB, Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery with Distinction
• FRACP (Paeds), Fellow of The Royal Australian College of Physicians
• DCH, Diploma in Child Health

Dr Newton has the following additional training pertinent to her neonatal & paediatric work in hospital:

• Newborn Life Support Training
• Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) Training

Dr Newton is a New Zealand born General Paediatrician under the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and has been a paediatrician here in Grand Cayman for more than 7 years, providing important continuity of care to the many children under her care across that time. She is also a busy mum to four children of her own, ranging in age from 10 months through to 11 years, as of writing. She believes in a holistic approach to health care, patient advocacy and empowering patients and their families through education and preventative health care.

General Paediatrics

• Competent in resuscitation of seriously ill children using APLS guidelines.
• Competent in management of children who require high dependency care and stabilisation of children prior to transfer to PICU.
• Competent in management of children with wide range of common childhood diseases.
• Competent in planning discharge of complex long stay patients.
• Clinical Supervision of junior doctors in their clinical duties including technical paediatric procedures
• Competent in the following practical procedures: peripheral intravenous access, peripheral arterial access, peripheral long-line insertion, lumber puncture.

Child Protection

• Competent in child protection procedures and medical examination.
• Darkness to Light training

Developmental Paediatrics

• Experience in developmental assessment, ADHD and autistic spectrum disorder clinics.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary developmental clinic assessment of children with complex developmental and social/behavioural concerns.

My training and experience stretches over many years and includes training and experience in a wide variety of units, including tertiary hospitals in Singapore (KKH Women & Children’s Hospital), Australia & New Zealand, prior to working as a paediatrician in Cayman.

General Newborn

• Attending deliveries of all kinds – normal vaginal, caesarean section and assisted deliveries of all kinds
• Initial assessment of newborn infants
• Newborn baby checks

Neonatal Care Experience

• Competent in all aspects of modern neonatal care.
• Competent in resuscitation of very premature and sick term neonates
• Competent in the use of conventional ventilation, high frequency oscillation ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, as well as noninvasive ventilation – CPAP
• Competent in the management of babies with congenital abnormalities, cardiac and surgical conditions
• Competent in neonatal intensive care skills such as endotracheal intubation, umbilical venous and arterial catheterisation, peripheral venous and arterial access, insertion of long lines, chest drain, dilutional and exchange transfusion.
• Competent in antenatal counseling of parents of premature babies and babies with antenatal diagnosis.