Dr Nigel Stewart
MBChB, DCH. (Otago), FRACP
Council Regional Representative - Northern Region

Dr Nigel Stewart was born and educated in Auckland, New Zealand. He has lived in Port Augusta, South Australia for the past 17 years and has worked as a regional paediatrician with the Port Augusta Hospital since 1993, and since 1995 has been Head of the Northern Regional Paediatric Unit at Port Augusta Hospital.

Dr Stewart aims to provide a high quality child health service as close to home as possible for the children of rural and remote locations across northern South Australia. He has a strong interest in many aspects of children’s health, including rural children’s health, indigenous health, behavioural paediatrics and developmental paediatrics. As a rural practitioner he has been a strong advocate for rural health consumers and their access to health services.

Teaching roles have included Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide since 1995, and in 2003 as a Senior Clinical Lecturer for rural teaching in the Department of Paediatrics for the University of Adelaide.