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Brian DarlowMA BChir MA MD(Camb) FRCP FRACP FRCPCH

Email brian.darlow@otago.ac.nz

Tel +64 3 372 6735

Brian Darlow trained at Cambridge University, elsewhere in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, with a spell in Papua New Guinea.

He returned to the department as Senior Lecturer in 1982 and was appointed to the Chair of Paediatrics in 2001.  From 2007 until 2018 Brian held the Cure Kids Chair of Paediatric Research at the University of Otago, Christchurch.

Through most of his career he has worked as a clinical neonatologist with research interests including free radical disease in the newborn, particularly retinopathy of prematurity, neonatal networking and the epidemiology and outcome of complications of prematurity. In recent years he has led the NZ 1986 VLBW Follow-up Study assessing young adult outcomes of this national cohort of very preterm infants compared with term born control subjects.

Interests outside of medicine include ornithology and tramping.

Read about the NZ Very Low Birthweight study

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Publications

Zhou, Y., Mendonça, M., Tsalacopolous, N., Bartmann, P., Darlow, B. A., Harris, S. L., Horwood, J., Woodward, L. J., … Wolke, D. (2025). Socioeconomic outcomes in very preterm/very low birth weight adults: Individual participant data meta-analysis. Pediatric Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/s41390-025-04082-1 Journal - Research Article

Wong, M. K.-Y., Mendonça, M., Tsalacopoulos, N., Bartmann, P., Darlow, B. A., Horwood, L. J., Harris, S. L., … Wolke, D. (2025). Fertility of young adults born very preterm/very low birth weight: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Annals of Epidemiology, 106, 30-39. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.04.006 Journal - Research Article

Harris, S. L., Woodward, L. J., Horwood, L. J., Melzer, T. R., Bora, S., Pascoe, M., & Darlow, B. A. (2025). Visuospatial outcomes of a prospective national cohort of young adults with very low birthweight. Pediatric Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/s41390-025-03890-9 Journal - Research Article

Moody, G. L., Horwood, J., Harris, S. L., Darlow, B. A., & Woodward, L. J. (2024). Mental health incomes of a national cohort of adults born with very low birthweight. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13, 7591. doi: 10.3390/jcm13247591 Journal - Research Article

Mendonça, M., Ni, Y., Baumann, N., Darlow, B. A., Horwood, J., Doyle, L. W., … Woodward, L. J., Harris, S., … Wolke, D. (2024). Romantic and sexual relationships of young adults born very preterm: An individual participant data meta-analysis [Review]. Acta Paediatrica. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/apa.17397 Journal - Research Article

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