Dr John Sinn 

MBBS (Syd), M Med (CEpi) DCH, Dip Paed, FRACP

Paediatric Allergist and Neonatologist

 

Dr John Sinn is a paediatric allergist for infants and children at The Paediatric Centre, while he also looks after intensive care babies from birth in Royal North Shore Hospital.

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He has written national guidelines on probiotics and nutritional policies for infants. He is on medicine advisory board for Department of Health and on the board of Australian Neonatal formulary.

 

Dr John Sinn has been on policy boards of RACP, EAACI, FSANZ, PSANZ and NHMRC. He has also been an accredited consultant in the Department of Immunology and Allergy at RPAH and RNSH.

 

Dr Sinn has extensive publications in areas of allergy prevention, food intolerances, cows milk allergy, microbiome, probiotics and prebiotics, and immunisations.

 

He has written national policies on cow's milk intolerance and food allergy prevention strategies.

 

Dr John Sinn has written more than 10 Cochrane reviews which are the major reference points for probiotics, prebiotics, allergy prevention, hydrolysed protein, iodine, soy, amino acid, ADHD and omega 3.

 

There are more than 5,000 citations of Dr Sinn's research papers.

 

Dr John Sinn also is an international and national invited speaker, presenting regularly on nutrition, probiotics, microbiome and allergy. Internationally he has been invited to speak at government levels from countries such as China, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam and Malaysia on nutrition, microbiome and allergy.

 

Dr Sinn is an author on the guideline for the first 1000 days which is in every new mother's information pack in Australia and New Zealand with a distribution of >500,000 booklets.