PSANZ Congress 2025

The Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health was well-represented at PSANZ 2025 in Brisbane in March. From the Perinatal Epidemiology Group Dr Anthea Lindquist, Dr Hannah Gordon, and Jess Atkinson were all selected for oral presentations and A/Prof Roxanne Hastie, Dr Natasha Pritchard, Dr Charlotte Goutallier, Danica Idzes, and Dr Aleah Kink were all selected for poster presentations. From Newborn Research Centre Dr Amir Zayegh was selected for his posters presentations.

^{Pictured above Dr  Hannan  Gordon and Dr Amir Zayegh}

Dept OGN PhD student Dr Hannah Gordon was awarded the Best New Investigator prize at PSANZ in Brisbane (March 2025) following her oral presentation entitled "Early developmental outcomes for children following exposure to maternal diabetes in utero".

PhD student Dr Amir Zayegh submitted two posters entitled, “A novel consent matrix to assist perinatal researchers in choosing ethically defensible and evidence based recruitment and “Consent methods and are clinicians protecting or hindering informed consent? The differing views of parents, clinicians and investigators on consenting for perinatal trials and was awarded in the New Investigator Awards for Neonatology for the Consent Matrix poster.

Dr Charlotte Goutallier who is junior doctor at the Mercy and a clinical RA at Mercy Perinatal and did their MDRS with our Dept last year was awarded the Best New Investigator prize for her poster at PSANZ 2025, entitled "Sertraline use in pregnancy and placental transfer: a pharmacokinetic prospective cohort study". This study was a collaborative effort with laboratory scientists/pharmacologists from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.