DR. BRIAN SYMON
MD, FRACGP, MBBS, BSc, Dip RANZCOG General Practice
Director, Medical Services
Dr Brian Symon, has 35 years experience in primary healthcare, and has spent the past 15 years selecting the best doctors and care professionals to join his world class team at Australian Family Care. His team consists of over 50 doctors and allied health professionals from Australia, UK, USA, and Europe.
In addition Dr Brian Symon provides advanced skills in the care of pregnant women and babies with a focus on high quality feeding, growth and sleep. He has more than 30 years’ experience working with parents and babies experiencing sleep, feeding, growth and/or behavioural issues. He is a specialist medical practitioner with a MD (PhD) in infant sleep. Dr Symon is well published in national and international medical and research journals having researched infant sleep problems throughout his medical career.
As well as an experienced Private Specialist General Practitioner and Procedural Rural General Practitioner, Dr Symon has been a senior lecturer and inaugural member of the Department of General Practice, University of Adelaide. He was responsible for implementing healthcare teaching programs and creating medical practices in rural communities and preparing a proposal for Commonwealth funding for what became the University’s rural school sited in Whyalla ($7,000,000 grant funding achieved).
Dr Symon has contributed to a plethora of publications and written many books on a range of health and medical topics.
Qualifications
- • 1972: Bachelor of Science, University of Adelaide
- • 1977: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of
- • Surgery, University of Adelaide
- • 1996: Fellowship of the RACGP, granted by examination
- • 2003: MD, University of Adelaide Thesis: Infant sleep disorders. Their significance and evidence-based and strategies for prevention. A Randomised control trial.