Our people at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dunedin

Dr Judith Adams

Child and adolescent health

Dr Alisa Boucsein

New technologies in type 1 diabetes management

Dr Nick Bowden

Quantitative social scientist

Professor Barbara Galland

Children’s sleep health, adolescent sleep-wake biology, sleep-disordered breathing, sleep metrics

Sam Hawarden

Assistant Research Fellow

Dr Emma Heydon

General Paediatrics, Epidemiology, International Health

Dr Zandra Jenkins

Human genetics of skeletal development and congenital malformation

Dr Amy Jones

Member of the Laboratory for Genomic Medicine investigating the genetics underpinning disorders

Shirley Jones

Research with people living with Diabetes, looking at advancements to improve health outcomes.

Dr Andrew Kelly

General Paediatrician

Dr Rachael Lawrence Lodge

Mortality in Aotearoa

Professor Peter McIntyre

Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. Use of big data (disease and immunisation coverage registers). Vaccine trials.

Melanie Millier

Measles immunity in young adults, clinical trials using new vaccine methods.

Professor Stephen Robertson

Genetic disorders affecting children, with emphasis on malformations of the skeleton and brain

Dr Sujata Saha

Specialist IDI analyst

Dr Gianna Salis

The use of oral paracetamol in the treatment of fever in children

Dr Ian Shaw

Paediatrics

Matt Slemint

ACCESS AID (Accelerating Care, Capacity & Equity in AID Systems for New Zealanders with Type 1 Diabetes)

Sandy So

Improving access to automated insulin delivery in T1DM and use of continuous glucose monitoring in T2DM.

Emeritus Professor Barry Taylor

Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), sleep disorders, prevention of obesity, diabetes

Dr Fiona Turnbull

Director, New Zealand Child and Youth Epidemiology Service (NZCYES)

Dr Karen Tustin

Child and youth health and wellbeing

Hien Vu

Neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health

Dr Kalhari Weerasinghe

Paediatrician

Professor Ben Wheeler

Professor Ben Wheeler is a Paediatric Endocrinologist and Paediatrician working for the University of Otago and the Southern District Health Board. His research focuses on access to and use of new technologies for children and young people affected

Dr Jason Wister

5th Year Paediatrics Convenor

Tharaka Athukorala

Investigating the effects of a remote care model in accelerating care, capacity and equity in AID system for New Zealanders with Type 1 Diabetes

Venus Cahusac de Caux

Investigating glycaemic and psychosocial outcomes in young people with Type 1 Diabetes using an Automated Insulin Delivery System

Dr Kaya Fukushima

Genetics of non-syndromic biliary atresia

Joanna Goes Castro Meira

The clinical and molecular basis of FLNA-filaminopathies

Sujin Kwak

Child and adolescent mental health

Zhenlin Li

My research focuses on the use of diabetes technologies and factors affecting glycaemic control in children and young people with diabetes.

Sumanta Saha

Waning immunity to measles in fully immunised young adults

Emily Swasbrook

Refining whole genome sequencing analysis for clinical diagnostics, with emphasis on neurodevelopmental disorders