by Ngoc Nguyen | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog
A visit to Oxford University 2024 Resilience, persistence, and hard work—these are some of the most important traits to uphold, especially as an ex preterm young adult. I was born at the Royal Women’s Hospital at 28 weeks gestational age and weighed just under...
by Ngoc Nguyen | Aug 11, 2025 | Blog
Are you a parent of a child who was born very preterm aged 3-5 years? Would you like support with engaging your child in community-based physical activity? The aim of the Active-Prem Study is to support children born very preterm aged 3-5 years to be more physically...
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,...
