Meet the Team
Our Practitioners
Dr Sathah Sivabalan (Sath)
Consultant Paediatrician
Founder
Sath is a Consultant Paediatrician in Sydney’s Hills region for over five years, working with therapists. He aims to provide safe, evidence-based care that improves children’s function and quality of life rather than focusing on labels. Trained at Sydney Children’s Hospital and John Hunter Hospital, he now works at Norwest Private Hospital and Campbelltown Hospital Paediatric Emergency.
He keeps his skills up to date, supports families toward best-practice paediatric care, and is open to discussing medical and non-medical therapies.
Dr Jessica Barker is a Paediatrician who cares for babies, children and teens alongside their families. She treats both short-term and long-term medical and developmental issues, and adapts care to each child’s needs.
She trained in neonatal intensive care, child development, clinical genetics, child protection and adolescent addiction medicine, and completed respiratory and sleep fellowships at major Australian children’s hospitals.
Jess is a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Specialist with a particular interest in: asthma, wheeze and chronic cough, recurrent chest infections, genetic and surgical lung diseases, Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) and sleep difficulties.
Dr Barker can arrange lung function tests and sleep studies offsite with short wait times.
Consultant Paediatrician
Paediatric Respiratory & Sleep Physician
Dr Jessica Barker (Jess)
Dr Marta Matic is a Specialist GP and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with advanced paediatric training.
She holds a Master of Pharmacy (Griffith University, 2010) and a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (University of Notre Dame Australia, 2014). From 2016–2020 she trained as a Paediatric Registrar at Gold Coast University Hospital, Queensland Children’s Hospital, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
General Practitioner
Co-prescribing doctor for ADHD
Lactation Consultant
Dr Marta Matic
Our Support Staff
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Emma Hoffner
Practice Manager
Marketing -

Esara Chettri
Receptionist
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Athavan Jegendran
Receptionist
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Nohshini Palaniappan
Receptionist
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Madeline Rochester
Receptionist
Contact us
Don’t wait on the phone. Request an appointment and we’ll get back to you. Alternatively ask us a question/s.
We are in the Bond
302/8 Elizabeth Macarthur Drive
Bella Vista, NSW 2153
P 8552 3565
F 8552 3585
E info@yourpaediatrician.com.au
We welcome enquiries from families, referrers and allied health professionals. Our paediatric clinic is located in Bella Vista, Sydney, and provides specialist care for infants, children and adolescents. To book an appointment or enquire about referrals, please us this form. We accept Medicare and private patients. A GP referral is required to access Medicare rebates for paediatric consultations.

