- Optimisation of medical conditions before conception
- Previous birth trauma, birth debriefing and planning for a future birth
- Review of previous pregnancy or birth complications
- Recurrent miscarriage and previous pregnancy loss
- Medication review and safety in pregnancy
- Genetic and family history, and screening options
- Fertility, cycle and timing advice, and referral where needed
- High-risk and complex pregnancy
- Maternal medical conditions in pregnancy
- Twin pregnancy
- Preterm birth prevention
- Fetal conditions and fetal growth restriction
- VBAC and breech birth
- Obstetric and fetal ultrasound
- Heavy and irregular periods
- Pelvic pain and endometriosis
- Contraception
- Menopause
- Cervical screening and colposcopy
- General gynaecological surgery
Clinical philosophy
My approach is centred on respectful, individualised care and shared decision-making. I aim to ensure that patients are well informed, feel heard and are actively involved in decisions about their care.
Where a previous pregnancy or procedure has been difficult, care is offered sensitively and at your pace, including birth debriefing and collaborative planning for the future.
Background and training
Dr Aridas trained in obstetrics and gynaecology with Monash Health, working as registrar and senior registrar across its high-risk obstetric clinics — the maternal–fetal medicine unit, the multiple pregnancy and preterm birth prevention unit, and the diabetes and obesity in pregnancy unit — and served as Chief Registrar for the Women’s and Newborn Program. He then completed 18 months of accredited maternal–fetal medicine training at the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane, the tertiary maternal–fetal medicine referral centre for Queensland.
He continues to provide maternal–fetal medicine services in the public sector at Monash Medical Centre, including a regular clinic and supervision of a fetal growth restriction service. His wider experience spans tertiary metropolitan, regional and remote practice, and he holds a PhD in perinatal medicine.
Alongside obstetrics he provides general gynaecological care, from period and pelvic pain problems through to contraception, menopause and gynaecological surgery.
Humanitarian work
Dr Aridas has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in Aweil, South Sudan, providing obstetric and gynaecological care in a low-resource setting with limited access to imaging, blood products and operative facilities.
That work shapes how he practises here: a clear sense of what is essential in a clinical decision, a low threshold for acting on a concern, and an appreciation of how much the circumstances around a birth matter to the person going through it.
Research and media
Dr Aridas holds a PhD in perinatal medicine, awarded for work on protecting the newborn brain when a baby is deprived of oxygen at birth. The findings have since informed the design of human trials, and the subject matter — fetal wellbeing, the timing of birth, and recovery after a difficult birth — remains directly relevant to his obstetric practice.
He has also spoken about this work on television, radio and in print, and at events for both scientific and general audiences.
Everyone is welcome here
This practice provides respectful care to people of all sexualities, gender identities, cultures and family structures, including trans and gender-diverse patients. Tell us your name and pronouns and we will use them — they are recorded on your file and used by everyone in the practice.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work — the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation — and pay our respects to Elders past and present. If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, please tell reception, so care can be arranged in a way that suits you.
