Deepika is a General and Developmental / Behavioural Paediatrician and is the director / principal for Ishana Well Being and Specialist Centre. She together with her husband set up this centre in 2019 with a vision to provide comprehensive paediatric health care to children and young families. The vision of this centre is to serve the community with a range of specialist and allied health services together with a holistic health care model.She has worked in the area of Paediatrics and child health for over 20 years and continues to be passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people through a family based approach. She gained a Master's in Public Health through University of Newcastle in 2014 and attributes that she gained an excellent understanding of preventive aspects of healthcare and continues to strive to implement those principles in her day to day clinical practice.
Dr Deepika currently leads a team of Paediatricians, Paediatric Surgeon, Allied health professionals , nursing and admin staff at Ishana Well Being Centre with an overarching goal to provide timely and comprehensive health care to children and young people.
Her passion continues to help children with complex NeuroDevelopmental and Behavioural problems such as ADHD , Autism , Developmental delay but she also manages children with complex medical problems such as failure to thrive, Asthma, Allergies, Epilepsy or chronic medical conditions.
DIRECTOR / CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN
Dr Deepika Jadhav
MBBS, DCH, MPH, FRACP
She served the hunter area as a Staff Specialist Paediatrician at Hunter New England health for around 8 years contributing as a Child Protection Paediatrician, where her role involved providing medical assessments to children at risk of harm, being an advocate for children at risk of abuse by providing recommendations to child welfare services so adequate safety planning can occur. She was actively involved in departmental policy formulations, teaching undergraduate and post graduate medical trainees, nursing staff and General Practitioners in the local community. She transitioned to full time private practice in 2024.
She continues to be passionate about teaching and mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees and is actively involved in medical student teaching and supervision of Paediatric advanced trainees.
Deepika has been nominated as an international expert in the editorial board for Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine( JIAFM).
She is a member of professional bodies such as RACP( Royal Australian College of Physicians), ASDP( Australasian Society of Developmental Paediatricians ) and HPS( Hunter Paediatric Society) just to name a few.
When not at work , Deepika loves to spend time with her family, cook and travel.