Professor Samuel Menahem a Consultant Paediatrician with extensive experience in General Paediatrics and Neonatology, has researched and published on the interface of Child Psychiatry and Paediatrics. He is a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. His subspecialty is Paediatric Cardiology extending from the foetus to the adult with congenital heart disease. He has held Consultant appointments in Paediatrics and Cardiology at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and at Monash Medical Centre where he also headed the General Paediatric and the Paediatric Cardiology Units and was Foundation Co-Director of the Foetal Cardiac Unit.

Professor Menahem graduated Dux of year from the University of Melbourne where he completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Higher Education. He has a Master of Psychological Medicine from Monash University.  He is a Fellow and now a Life Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.

He has held academic appointments at the University of Melbourne and is a Professor at Monash University. He continues to teach and mentor students and graduates from both universities and also teaches at Deakin University. He has been an overseas Visiting Professor and/or Examiner and has presented at National and International Meetings. He is active in clinical research and has published widely.

Professor Menahem continues in consultant practice in addition to conducting teaching outreach clinics. Many of his patients have stayed with him since infancy into adult life including women with congenital heart disease who he has cared for during their pregnancies. Arising from his clinical experience and research endeavours, he is currently writing up his body of work towards a Higher Doctorate highlighting the psychosocial and ethical aspects of congenital heart disease.