Karen Simmer

Last updated

Karen Simmer AO FAHMS is an Australian paediatrician and professor of Newborn Medicine at the University of Western Australia and is director of two neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in Perth. [1] She also runs the WA Human Milk Bank and is team leader, neonatal gut health, nutrition and development at the Telethon Kids Institute. [2]

Simmer completed her secondary education at Abbotsleigh in Sydney [1] and undertook an MB BS at the University of Sydney. [3] She graduated from the University of London with a PhD in perinatal nutrition and later completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. [2]

Simmer was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to medicine in the field of paediatrics, particularly neonatal and perinatal nutrition, to medical education as an academic, researcher and clinician, and to the community". [4] She was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2017. [5]

Related Research Articles

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government. As part of the Department of Health, the TGA regulates the quality, supply and advertising of medicines, pathology devices, medical devices, blood products and most other therapeutics. Any items that claim to have a therapeutic effect, are involved in the administration of medication, or are otherwise covered by the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990, or a ministerial order, must be approved by the TGA and registered in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.

Endeavour College of Natural Health is a private education institution located in multiple campuses across Australia, specialising in alternative medicine.

Sandra Eades is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University.

Rashid Latif Medical College

Rashid Latif Medical Complex, established in 2010 and named after its founder Rashid Latif Khan, is a private medical college located on Ferozepur Road, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It occupies 28 acres on Ferozepur Road, and was established by graduate and post-graduate medical professors. Rashid Latif Nursing College was established in 2011 and was affiliated with Pakistan Nursing Council. Rashid Latif College of Physiotherapy was started in 2013 with in an affiliation with the University of Health and Sciences (UHS). In 2014, through an affiliation with the University of Sargodha, Rashid Latif College of Pharmacy was established, drawing 50 students per year. In 2018, Rashid Latif Dental College was established and was affiliated with UHS.

Dr Eugen Molodysky OAM, MMBS is an academic and medical practitioner in preventive medicine and translational research. His research has been published in peer reviewed journals over the last 30 years. He has a life-long professional focus on prevention, preclinical diagnosis and early intervention.

Richard Scolyer

Richard Anthony Scolyer is an Australian pathologist. He is a senior staff specialist in tissue pathology and diagnostic oncology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, co-medical director at the Melanoma Institute Australia, and clinical professor at the University of Sydney.

Forrester Cockburn is a British Paediatrician and emeritus professor at the University of Glasgow. Cockburn is most notable for conducting research into fetal/neonatal nutrition and brain biochemistry, inherited metabolic diseases and Pediatric ethics. Cockburn was awarded the prestigious James Spence Medal in 1998.

Georgina Venetia Long is Co-Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney.

Ji Xiaocheng was a Chinese paediatrician who served as Director of Paediatrics at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. In the early 1980s, he introduced perinatal medicine to China from the United States, and co-founded China's first neonatal intensive care unit at PUMC Hospital.

Vinnytsia National Medical University. N. I. Pirogov

National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya is a medical university located in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. It was founded in 1921. Its predecessors were the Vinnytsia Pharmaceutical Institute (1921), the Vinnytsia Branch of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Correspondence Medical Education (1930), the Vinnytsia Evening Industrial Medical Institute (1932), the Vinnytsia Medical Institute (1934).

Jennifer J. Kurinczuk is a British physician who is a Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology and Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. In 2019 she was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kurinczuk investigated the neonatal complications of coronavirus disease.

Sharmila Anandasabapathy Sri Lankan-American physician

Sharmila Anandasabapathy is a Sri Lankan-American physician and researcher in the field of gastrointestinal cancer. She is a professor of medicine in gastroenterology and serves as director of Baylor Global Health and vice president at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Olga Margaret Garson, better known as Margaret Garson, was an Australian physician and cytogenetics researcher.

Melanie Ann Wakefield is an Australian psychologist and behavioural researcher at the Cancer Council of Victoria. She has worked extensively on cancer prevention including tobacco control, through the introduction of plain-paper packaging.

Kerry Chant Australian physician and medical officer

Kerry Gai Chant is a public health physician who has been the Chief Health Officer of New South Wales, Australia, since 2008. She gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic providing regular public health advice for New South Wales, a contribution for which she was named the state's Woman of the Year in March 2021.

Robert M. Graham (cardiologist) Australian medical researcher

Robert Michael Graham AO, FAA, FAHMS is an Australian-born clinician-scientist. He is the Des Renford Professor of Medicine at University of New South Wales and the Head of the Molecular Cardiology and Biophysics Division at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Raina MacIntyre is the Professor of Global Biosecurity within the Kirby Institute at University of New South Wales and a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow, who leads a research program on the prevention and control of infectious diseases. She is an expert media advisor and commentator on Australia's response to COVID-19.

Alison Joan Ritter is an Australian academic whose research focuses on illicit drug use and policy. As of 2021 she is a full professor and director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the University of New South Wales.

Glenda Margaret Halliday is an Australian neuroscientist. As of 2021, she is a professor at the University of Sydney and research fellow in the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

References

  1. 1 2 "Karen Simmer AO (1973) - Abbotsleigh". www.abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Karen Simmer AO". Telethon Kids Institute. Retrieved 10 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "Karen Simmer". the UWA Profiles and Research Repository. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "Professor Karen Simmer". It's An Honour. Retrieved 10 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "AAHMS Announces its Second Scientific Meeting and Induction of New Fellows" (PDF). Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.