Australasian Brain Club

@AusNZBrainClub

Vision Statement

The Australasian Brain Club has been created as a forum in which Discovery scientists, Clinician Scientists, Obstetricians, Neonatologists, Neurologists, Nursing and Allied health staff from around Australasia can come together to share research, experience and other learnings that pertain to optimising the care of the fetal and newborn brain.

Perinatal brain injury remains a highly significant problem for the high-risk newborn and proven targeted therapies to afford protection of the brain remain very limited. Our best chance of improving the health and development of the brain is to tackle the challenges together.

Our aim

Our aim is to improve health and development of the brain by supporting and promoting preclinical research so that positive results can be efficiently tested and translated into clinical practice.

We aim to further reduce the rates and severity of cerebral palsy.
We aim to consciously consider and actively research mechanisms to close the equity gap in outcomes that afflict our First Nations populations.

Our goal

Our goal is to inform practice and policy that improves outcomes for high-risk newborns, further reducing the current burden of mortality and morbidity.

Our activities

Our activities will include

an annual face to face meeting at which new learnings can be presented, new and existing collaborations can be developed and strengthened and further research can be planned
a monthly on-line journal club at which new research can be critically appraised and challenging cases can be presented
regular newsletters providing updates on publications, meetings and events pertinent to perinatal and neonatal neurology

Contact

For further information pertaining to Australasian Brain Club please contact:

Professor Rod Hunt

Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Monash University

Director of Research, Victoria, Cerebral Palsy Alliance

rod.hunt@monash.edu

Professor Suzie Miller

Director, The Ritchie Centre

Suzie.miller@monash.edu

Welcome

AustralaSIAN Brain Club

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