Jenny Royle
Dr. Jenny Royle
Dr. Jenny Royle
Immunisation PaediatricianMD, MBBS, FRACP
Dr. Royle is not currently accepting new patients.
Professional Background/Experience
Dr Royle completed her medical training in 1989 through Monash University, Paediatrics training (FRACP 1996) at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. Dr Royle completed a Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Melbourne University in 2002 on ‘Reducing Immunisation Pain’.
Dr Royle is an Immunisation Paediatrician who sees patients referred to her with a range of complex issues relating to immunisations. Families are referred to her for immunisation advice in the context of medical conditions, previous vaccine reactions and heightened concerns around potential immunisation side effects.
She has immunisation experience in the following areas
Immunisation Clinical Advice
- Children, adults, health care workers
- Immunisations during pregnancy
- Immunisations for athletes
- Immunisation Catch-up Schedules
- Post exposure immunisation prophylaxis
- Community needle stick injury
- Needle phobia
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families
- Unimmunised patients who have had a vaccine preventable disease
- Vaccine failure
- Vaccine non-responders
- Tetanus prone wounds
Immunisation Safety
- Immunisation adverse events
- Patients with a family history of immunisation adverse events
- Medical events and conditions arising with a temporal association with vaccination
- Immunosuppressed patients
- Patients with underling medical conditions
- Immunisation errors
- Families with concerns about immunisation safety
Professional Interests
Dr. Royle is currently continuing her research interests working within a multicentre NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Population Health Research. ‘Immunisation in Understudied and Special Risk Populations: closing the gap in knowledge through a multidisciplinary approach’. Jenny is a member of the ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander vaccination needs’ stream of the CRE. Her contribution to the CRE research group is a project looking at the identification of culturally sensitive approaches to improve immunisation coverage and timeliness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families.
