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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

Pilvar, H., Nicodemo, C., Petrou, S., Darlow, B. A., van Dommelen, P., Evensen, K. A. I., Harris, S., Horwood, J., … Kim, S. (2026). Socioeconomic inequity in extreme outcomes within very pre-term and/or very low birthweight infants: Evidence from multi-national cohorts. Frontiers in Public Health, 14, 1791450. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1791450 Journal - Research Article

Pilvar, H., Nicodemo, C., Petrou, S., Darlow, B. A., van Dommelen, P., Evensen, K. A. I., Harris, S., Horwood, J., … Kim, S. (2026). Outcomes in early adulthood for very preterm and very low birth weight individuals: Evidence from multi-national cohorts. Journal of Pediatrics: Clinical Practice, 19, 200196. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedcp.2025.200196 Journal - Research Article

Porteny, J. R., Scudder, P., Darlow, B. A., Vanderveen, D. K., & Dammann, O. (2025). A scoping review of adverse visual outcomes among preterm infants without, versus those with, retinopathy of prematurity. Survey of Ophthalmology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2025.11.009 Journal - Research Other

Shah, P. K., Abiramalatha, T., Quinn, G. E., Darlow, B. A., Marlow, N., & Fielder, A. R. (2025). Retinopathy of prematurity: Still more to do. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 73(11), 1693-1694. doi: 10.4103/ijo.Ijo_669_25 Journal - Research Other

Darlow, B. A., Harris, S. L., Horwood, L. J., & Woodward, L. J. (2025). New Zealand 1986 Very Low Birthweight Follow-up Study: The third decade. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1621), 77-89. doi: 10.26635/6965.7049 Journal - Research Other

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