Dr LIAM TJIA
MBBS FRACP PhD
General Paediatrician
Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrician
CLINICAL INTERESTS
Dr Liam Tjia’s clinical interests include:
All health concerns and medical issues which can arise in:
Newborns – Infants – Toddlers – School age children – Teenagers / Adolescents.
BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
Liam completed training as a general paediatrician in 2005. He moved back to Melbourne with his young family in early 2016, having previously trained and worked in Sydney, London and Queensland.
He finds the full breadth of paediatric practice rewarding, and feels privileged to meet so many families, often at a profoundly important point in their lives, in the course of his day-to-day work.
Liam holds public positions at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Monash Children’s Hospital. He holds admitting rights to the paediatric ward at Epworth Richmond Hospital.
Liam was conferred a PhD by the University of Queensland in 2015.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Liam’s doctoral thesis was in the medicolegal area, and examined some of the legal and ethical issues which arise when a very young child suffers a physical injury.