Valerie Sung is a paediatric otolaryngologist based in Parkville, NSW, at 50 Flemington Road. She looks after children with ear, nose and throat needs, and she also helps families when hearing and feeding issues show up in the early years.
In many cases, her work involves hearing loss, including infant hearing loss. Some babies are born with hearing concerns, and others develop them after an infection. Valerie also supports families dealing with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) and cytomegalic inclusion disease. These conditions can affect hearing and can raise lots of questions for parents, especially when it’s all new and happening fast.
Children’s health can change quickly, and illness can play a part too. Valerie cares for kids who have had COVID-19, and she can help with follow-up issues that sometimes come up after respiratory infections. She also has experience with conditions linked to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), where breathing and overall recovery can be a focus.
It’s not only ears and airways. Valerie also helps children and families with food allergy and gastroesophageal reflux in infants (often called reflux). For babies, reflux can be upsetting and stressful to manage, and it can affect comfort and feeding. At times, symptoms overlap with other problems, so the goal is usually to sort out what’s going on and make a practical plan.
Over time, her approach is calm and steady. She aims to explain things in plain language, so families understand the “why” behind the next step. Whether it’s checking hearing, reviewing symptoms, or organising follow-up care, the focus stays on the child and what will help them most.
Valerie has paediatric training as an ENT doctor, with hands-on clinical experience treating children across these areas. While the details of her education and research work aren’t listed here, she works in a field where new guidance and better testing methods keep coming. That means keeping up with evidence is part of the job.
No specific clinical trial details are provided, but she works within standard care pathways used in children’s ENT and related paediatric health. If families are looking for trial information in a specific situation, they can ask about what options may be available through local services.