Research Interests

A/Prof Martin Kluckow

has a research interest in the cardiovascular status of newborn premature infants, and is involved in a number of collaborative cardiovascular studies with researchers at King George V Hospital also in Sydney. These studies involve defining the importance of ductal shunting and cardiac output in the preterm transitional circulation using echocardiography. He completed a PhD thesis on “The haemodynamic basis of intraventricular haemorrhage in the preterm infant” in December 2000. He is responsible for mentoring a number of nursing research projects.

Dr Jennifer Bowen

has been conducting longitudinal follow-up studies of extremely low birthweight infants cared for in the Royal North Shore Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit since 1985. These studies, which follow children longitudinally for eight years, provide important information on the neurodevelopmental outcome of these extremely premature babies who are now surviving as a result of our intensive care efforts. Over the past ten years we have built up considerable expertise in the developmental assessment of high risk infants as they grow and develop and more recently we have also been applying this expertise to the developmental follow-up of children conceived using IVF technologies.

Dr Tushar Bhuta

Dr Tushar Bhuta joined the Department of Neonatology in March 2001. He brings to the Department a strong background in evidence based medicine. Dr Bhuta was awarded a Masters in Medicine (Clinical Epidemiology) from the University of Sydney in 2001. He is currently completing a Masters in Health Administration and is a PhD student at the University of Sydney. His major area of interest is in getting research into clinical practice and his PhD research topic is "Systemic reviews in neonatology: dissemination, implementation and changes in outcome".

Dr Mary Paradisis

also has a research interest in the cardiovascular status of newborn premature infants, and is involved in a number of collaborative cardiovascular studies with researchers at King George V Hospital. These studies involve defining the importance of ductal shunting and cardiac output in the preterm transitional circulation using echocardiography. She is currently completing a PhD thesis on the management of low systemic blood flow in the preterm infant.

Dr John Sinn

Dr John Sinn joined the unit in January 2007 after being a consultant at Westmead Hospital for 10 years. His interest is in nutrition and allergy prevention. He has published cochrane reviews on allergy prevention including the hydrolysed and soy formula reviews and prebiotic and probiotic reviews. He has a Master in Medicine (Clinical Epidemiology) and is keen to disseminate evidence base medicine.. He is the president of PSANZ (NSW).

In addition to the research being conducted by our staff specialists and research psychologist, we also have six neonatal registrars/fellows employed in the department who, are all involved in research activities within the department

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