05/10/2023
We’re celebrating two researchers at the Women’s on becoming Clinical Associate Professors.
Congrats to Julia Unterscheider and Rosemarie Boland, for their The University of Melbourne appointments.
It is a well-deserved honour. They make significant and ongoing contributions to the advancement of their clinical disciplines.
About A/Prof Julia Unterscheider
Born in Austria and trained in Ireland, Julia is the Medical Director of the Women’s Birth Centre. She is a consultant obstetrician, with a subspecialty interest in maternal fetal medicine.
Julia cares for women with high-risk pregnancies. She was the lead researcher of the PORTO study (https://bit.ly/3rtJG1r), which received international acclaim. The study continues to inform best-practice care of pregnancies affected by fetal growth restriction.
Julia’s current research interests include: severe maternal morbidity, perinatal mortality, pregnancy after loss, and quality improvement strategies in maternity care.
A/Prof Stefan Kane is the Women’s Director of Maternity Services (Medical) and works with Julia.
“Julia’s promotion is well-deserved recognition of her ongoing academic contributions in teaching and research. It is also a fitting acknowledgement of her clinical leadership roles,” Stefan says.
About A/Prof Rosemarie (Rose) Boland
Rose found her passion as a neonatal retrieval nurse in the Newborn Emergency Transport Service in the late 1990s. Ever since, she wanted to improve health outcomes of extremely preterm babies.
Today, she is a postdoctoral neonatal nurse researcher and perinatal educator. Rose helped develop Victorian guidelines for the management of extremely preterm births. She also leads the NIC-PREDICT (https://bit.ly/3PB1W0K) project at the Women’s.
Professor Peter Davis is the Women’s Director of Neonatal Medicine and Neonatal Services, and works with Rose.
“We’re always glad to see members of the team recognised, but Rose’s promotion is especially sweet,” Peter says.
“Rose has been such a tireless worker, over many decades, for Victorian babies and their families. She’s trained so many of us, gently reminding us that what we do in the first minutes of life matters.”
