Dr Jagdev Singh (or better known as Dr Dev) is a paediatric respiratory and sleep consultant at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He has spent 15 years treating and caring for children in various fields in paediatrics which includes infants (neonatology), critical medicine, endocrine, retrieval medicine, general paediatrics, rural paediatrics and developmental paediatrics in different parts of Australia and Malaysia before finding his true calling in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine.
Dr Dev is a researcher and a clinical lecturer with the University of Sydney, and has delivered various talks and teaching sessions for GPs (national conference), paediatricians and trainees in the field of respiratory and sleep medicine. He has won numerous awards that include teaching awards and recently, an international research award. More importantly, Dev loves to teach and empower trainees, GPs and junior paediatricians in the realms of respiratory and sleep.
Interests include:
- Asthma or chronic wheeze
- Long-standing or recurrent cough
- Recurrent lung infection
- Bronchiectasis or suppurative lung disease
- Noisy breathing during infancy or childhood
- Snoring leading to daytime somnolence or a lack of concentration at school
- Premature infants with ongoing lung issues such as a need for long term oxygen (chronic lung disease)
- Children born with abnormalities of the lungs or within their airways