James Paul Fitzpatrick (born 1975) is an Australian paediatrician notable for his advocacy of rural and indigenous health issues, particularly his work with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Born in 1975,[1] he grew up in the New South Wales city of Bathurst and attended high school at St Stanislaus' College, from which he graduated in 1991.
[1][2][3][4] For his volunteer work concerning suicide and youth health in Australia, he received the 2001 Young Australian of the Year Award.
[1] He then founded True Blue Dreaming, a non-profit, youth mentoring organisation, before expanding his business, PATCHES Paediatrics,, to deliver services focused on developmental disabilities and early intervention in Western Australia and beyond.
His PhD thesis with Sydney Medical School was the Lililwan Project, in which he and his collaborators studied the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in the Fitzroy River valley in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.