Thrive paediatrics is an associateship between co-founders Dr Tanya Newnham and Dr Anisha Pillay.

Both Tanya and Anisha run independent practices and are co-directors of the Paediatric Health Collective and have the PHC values front and centre of their clinical practice.

Tanya is an experienced General and Development Paediatrician with interests in all aspects of child health from birth through to adolescence. Tanya has a special interest in behavioural and development paediatrics, including autism spectrum disorders and is a member of the Australasian Society for Developmental Paediatrics (ASDP)

Tanya initially trained at the University of Nottingham in the UK before migrating to Australia in 2002. Tanya completed her paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, gaining her fellowship in 2009. During training, Tanya has worked in a number of specialist clinics including unsettled babies, sleep, behaviour, ADHD, learning difficulties and encopresis/enuresis clinics.

In addition to working in private paediatrics, Tanya is the Clinical Director of Paediatrics at Eastern Health, managing the paediatric units across Angliss, Maroondah and Box Hill. She works as part of a team at Box Hill Hospital, managing acute paediatric presentations and patients with eating disorders. Tanya has a passion for teaching and supervises medical students and junior doctors.

Tanya values the importance of life balance. She finds her Inner Zen hiking and remote camping with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Anisha is an experienced General Paediatrician who specialises in Developmental and behavioral paediatrics. She enjoys seeing children through all their developmental stages from infants through to late adolescence.

As well as caring for children’s general issues such as growth, feeding and commonplace medical concerns, Anisha also has specific interests in continence issues, developmental and learning issues. This includes developmental delay in young children; supporting Neurodivergent young people; Autistic spectrum and attentional issues and ADHDers; specific learning issues and also supporting anxiety in children and young people.

She works at the Royal Childrens Hospital in the Continence clinic and has over 18 years experience there managing all aspects of continence issues including daytime wetting, nocturnal enuresis and constipation and encopresis. Anisha also supervises and mentors two paediatric trainees each 6 month period working in the clinic.

Anisha also works at Monash Childrens Hospital in the Children’s Cancer Centre as a General Paediatrician looking after the wider paediatric issues of children with haematological and oncological issues.

Anisha truly believes that 'It takes a village to raise a child’ and is happy to work as part of a team with parents, teachers, educators and allied health professionals to reach the best possible outcome for each individual child.

Anisha completed her medical training at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She then returned home to Melbourne to complete her specialist Paediatric training at the Royal Childrens Hospital in 2005.

Outside of her paediatric work, Anisha enjoys time at the beach, cooking and meeting up with friends. She enjoys spending time with her husband and their three children- two daughters and a son.