Meet The Team - CRE-HiPP

Meet The Team

The Centre of Research Excellence in Health in Preconception and Pregnancy (CRE HiPP) brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, students and support staff passionate about women's lifestyle health during preconception and pregnancy.

Chief Investigators

Professor Helen Skouteris

Director of CRE HiPP
Monash Warwick Professor in Health and Social Care Improvement and Implementation Science; Head of Health and Social Care Unit, Co-Lead of the Division of Evidence Synthesis, Qualitative and Implementation Methods, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Helena Teede

Professor Helena Teede

NHMRC MRFF Practitioner Fellow; Director of Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI); Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University; Endocrinologist, Monash Health

Associate Professor Jacqueline Boyle

Head of Health Systems and Equity at Eastern Health clinical School, Monash University; Adjunct Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monash University; Obstetrician/Gynaecologist, Monash Health

Associate Professor Lisa Moran

NHF Future Fellow; Head of Healthy Lifestyles Program at Monash Health; Dietitian, MCHRI, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health, Obstetrician, University of Birmingham

Professor Andrew Hills

Associate Dean, Global, Professor of Sports and Exercise Science, University of Tasmania

Professor Alison Venn

Director of Menzies Institute for Medical Research, Professor of Endocrinology, University of Tasmania

Professor Brian Jack

Medical Physician, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston University

Professor Robert Norman

Reproductive Endocrinologist and Obstetrician Gynaecologist, Founder of Robinsons Research Institute, SA, Director fertilitySA, Professor of Reproductive and Periconceptual Medicine, University of Adelaide

Associate Professor Zanfina Ademi

Epidemiologist and Health Economist, Monash University

Associate Investigators

Professor Leonie Callaway

Chair of CRE HiPP Advisory Committee
Obstetrics, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital

Professor Cate Nagle

Midwifery, James Cook University, Townsville Hospital and Health Service

Professor James Dunbar

Primary Care, Deakin University

Professor Judith Stephenson

Preconception Care, University College London

Professor Louise Maple Brown

Endocrinology, Indigenous women’s health, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin

Dr Carina Cotaru

Obstetrician Gynaecologist, Royal Darwin Hospital Top End Health Service

Professor Sandra Eades

Dean and Head of Curtin Medical School, Curtin University

Professor Andrew Wilson

Director, The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

Professor Louise Baur

Paediatrics, University of Sydney, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Sydney

Professor Roger Hart

Fertility specialist, The University of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Director of Fertility Specialists of Western Australia

Research Fellows

Dr Cate Bailey

Research Fellow, Health Economic Unit, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

Dr Heidi Bergmeier

Research Fellow, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Dr Cheryce Harrison

Senior Research Fellow; Co-lead of the Healthy Lifestyle Stream, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI), School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Dr Briony Hill

NHMRC Early Career Fellow; Deputy Head of Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Siew Lim

Dr Siew Lim

NHMRC Early Career Fellow; Lead, Cardiometabolic Health Implementation Research in Postpartum women (CHIRP), Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University; Accredited Practising Dietitian, Monash Health

Jess Permezel

Jess Permezel

Research Fellow, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University; Midwife and Childbirth Educator

Dr Ruth Walker

Research Fellow, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

PhD and Honours Students

Ms Pragya Kandel

PhD candidate, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Ms Seonad Madden

Research Assistant, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University; PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania

Ms Teagan Ostrognaj

Honours Student, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Dr Rochelle Hine

Lecturer, Monash Rural Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University

Dr Renee O’Donnell

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Ms Melissa Savaglio

Clinical Psychologist; Research Assistant, Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Administrative Coordinators