LEAD COMMITTEE
Rod Hunt
Suzie Miller
Suzie Miller
Professor Hunt is a Clinician Scientist working in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Monash Health. His research focus is in the field of Neonatal Neurology, Neuroimaging and Neurodevelopment; interrogating mechanisms of perinatal brain injury and neuroprotection. The goal is to reduce perinatal brain injury and improve long term outcomes, including further reductions in rates of cerebral palsy.
Suzie Miller
Suzie Miller
Suzie Miller
Professor Suzie Miller is Director of The Ritchie Centre at Monash University in Australia, and holds NHMRC Investigator funding. Suzie is a developmental neuroscientist focused on identifying the cellular mechanisms of neuropathology in large animal models of perinatal compromise and testing targeted neuroprotective therapies. Suzie work
Professor Suzie Miller is Director of The Ritchie Centre at Monash University in Australia, and holds NHMRC Investigator funding. Suzie is a developmental neuroscientist focused on identifying the cellular mechanisms of neuropathology in large animal models of perinatal compromise and testing targeted neuroprotective therapies. Suzie works closely with clinical colleagues to translateneuroprotective therapies before or after birth, so that neonatal brain injury can be reduced and neurodevelopmental deficits prevented.
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Kathryn Martinello
Kathryn Martinello
Kathryn Martinello
Dr Kathryn Martinello is a clinician-researcher, and Senior Research Fellow in Neonatology based in Adelaide, South Australia. She is consultant neonatologist at Flinder’s Medical Centre and is the Flinders University’s Health and Medical Research Institute lead for Neonatology and Paediatrics, with a research focus on neonatal brain injury.
Michael Stark
Kathryn Martinello
Kathryn Martinello
Professor Michael Stark is Deputy Director of the RRI and leads the Neonatal Medicine Group at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on improving survival without neurodevelopmental impairment in preterm infants, spanning oxygen physiology, safer transfusion strategies and personalised nutrition to reduce inflammation and optimise long‑term outcomes.
Tara Crawford
Kathryn Martinello
Tara Crawford
Dr Tara Crawford is an experienced neonatal clinical trials coordinator working across the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Flinder’s Medical Centre and the Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University. Dr Crawford coordinates major multicentre clinical trials and is committed to advancing evidence-based care that supports healthy brain development and long-term outcomes for newborn babies.