Committees: Principal Investigators
Vicki Flenady
Professor Vicki Flenady leads the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence which aims to reduce stillbirths and improve care for families when a child is stillborn through high quality research and raising community awareness. Vicki was lead author on The Lancet’s stillbirth series in 2011 and 2016. Vicki’s research…
David Ellwood
David Ellwood joined Griffith University in early 2013 to take up a joint appointment as Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Director of Maternal-Fetal medicine at Gold Coast Health. Prior to this he was Deputy Dean at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra. He has held various roles within the School of Medicine…
Philippa Middleton
Philippa Middleton is a Principal Research Fellow in the Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children Theme of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and an Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide. As a perinatal epidemiologist and implementation scientist, she specialises in randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, research synthesis, guidelines,…
Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Morris is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist. Currently, Professor Morris is Director of The Kolling Institute, based at Royal North Shore Hospital. The Institute aims to embed high quality biomedical research within health to realize its mission of research discovery, development, delivery and dissemination for healthy people, healthy…
Miranda Davies-Tuck
Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck is a perinatal epidemiologist based at the Ritchie Centre in Melbourne and at Safer Care Victoria. Miranda combines population-based and clinical epidemiological studies with basic science research to improve our understanding of and develop strategies to prevent stillbirth. She has a particular focus on addressing disparities in stillbirth rates seen in migrant…
Adrienne Gordon
Adrienne is a senior staff specialist Neonatologist in the RPA centre for newborn care and Clinical Professor in the Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology at the University of Sydney. She trained in paediatrics prior to specialising in neonatal/perinatal medicine and is passionate about the public health impact of a healthy start to life and…
Sailesh Kumar
Professor Kumar is a Maternal and Fetal Medicine Sub-specialist at the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane and Head of the Academic Discipline of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Queensland. He leads an active research group collaborating across specialities both in basic science as well as clinical projects. Professor Kumar is also Visiting Professor…
Fran Boyle
Fran Boyle co-leads the Stillbirth CRE’s Care after stillbirth research program. Fran is also a health services researcher at The University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research. With a background in psychology and public health, Fran’s research is focused on ensuring best possible care following stillbirth, neonatal death and other types of pregnancy loss.…
Caroline Homer
Professor Caroline Homer AO is the leading midwifery researcher in Australia and has an international reputation as a scholar and leader in maternal and newborn health care and service delivery. She has led research into the development and implementation of innovative models of midwifery care and the development of midwifery practice and education. Professor Homer’s…
Sue Walker
Professor Susan Walker is the Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology since 2016 and also the Director of Perinatal Medicine at Mercy Hospital for Women. She was appointed the Sheila Handbury Chair of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Melbourne in 2011. She is currently the Clinical Director of the Victorian Fetal Therapy Service,…
