Dr Nightingale provides consultations and if necessary, performs procedures such as diagnostic and interventional upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (gastroscopy), colonoscopy and liver biopsy.
Dr Nightingale obtained a Bachelor of Medicine (Honours) from the University of Newcastle, trained in paediatrics and subspecialised in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplantation medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and then The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Dr Nightingale is also a Staff Specialist at John Hunter Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, NSW, Australia and a Conjoint Lecturer in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Newcastle. In addition to his clinical work, he is actively involved in medical research, with publications in many areas of paediatric gastroenterology including eosinophilic oeosphagitis, viral hepatitis and metabolic liver disease.