by Stephanie Brush | Nov 13, 2023 | Blog
17 November marks World Prematurity Day, an annual event to raise awareness for the one in ten babies worldwide who will be born too early. Each year, 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm. Sadly, one million of these babies will not survive. Of those who...
by Stephanie Brush | May 11, 2023 | Blog
The PremmieEd project aims to understand parent’s perceptions and experiences of their child’s schooling and development. We also want to know whether parent’s views of their child’s education experience are impacted by extremely preterm birth (birth before 28 weeks...
by Stephanie Brush | Aug 13, 2022 | Blog
It’s on again! In July 2022, recruitment for the latest group of VICS study families began. All babies born extremely preterm (before 28 weeks gestation) or extremely low birth weight (less than 1000g) in Victoria between the 1st July 2022 and 30th June 2023 will be...
by Stephanie Brush | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog
Professor Lex Doyle receives Order of Australia Professor Lex Doyle has been named as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, for distinguished service to medicine, and to medical education, as a neonatal paediatrician, academic,...
by Stephanie Brush | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
Kate Callanan, Premature Infant Follow Up Coordinator, retired in April 2017 after 28 years of service at the Royal Women’s Hospital. Kate was pivotal in caring for research participants and their families who are enrolled in preterm follow up research studies....
