Committees: Students

Kristen Haakons
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Kristen is originally from Canada where she worked as a Marine Biologist prior to her medical training. She moved to Sydney for medical school and has continued to call Australia home since. She recently completed her clinical training as a Neonatologist and is now working towards completing her PhD. Kristen hopes to work as a…

Megan Weller
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Megan is a proud Registered Nurse and a Registered Midwife. She is passionate about providing holistic, women-centered care to women, babies and families. Megan has a clinical background in continuity of care. Megan is undertaking her PhD with the University of Queensland and the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence focused around best practice guidelines for…

Kirstin Tindal
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Kirstin Tindal is a PhD Candidate at the Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. Her research centers around the factors associated with preterm stillbirth, with a particular focus on how the endometrial environment contributes to adverse pregnancy outcomes. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BSc (Genetics) and completed a…

Elias Roro
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Elias M. Roro, PhD student (MPH, BSc) Elias is a PhD student at the Mater Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland, Australia. An environmental health professional by training, Elias received a Bachelor of Science with a Distinction in 2007 from Haramaya University, and received a Masters in Public Health/General Public Health…

Cheryl Bailey
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Cheryl Bailey is a clinical midwife currently undertaking her PhD with the University of Queensland and the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence. Cheryl completed her midwifery training in the United Kingdom and has worked at the Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane followed by the Gold Coast University Hospital since arriving in Australia in 2009. …

Poliana Medeiros
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Poliana is a clinician currently undertaking her PhD with the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence. She had her neonatal training in Brazil at the Faculty of Medicine – University of São Paulo (FMUSP) and is a neonatologist both in Brazil and Australia (FRACP in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine), currently working at Mater Mothers’ Hospital. She values the…

Ms Tania Marsden
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Tania is a Laboratory Principal Scientist in Anatomical Pathology. She earned a Bachelor of Science from The University of Melbourne in 2004, Masters in Medical Science from Charles Sturt University in 2015 and a Masters in Health Administration from Monash University in 2019. Her Masters in Medical Science research project was on a rare type…







