Professor John Newnham
MBBS FRCOG FRANZCOG MD W.Aust DDU CMFM
Honorary Director, Women and Infants Research Foundation
Professor, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Head, School of Women’s & Infants’ Health
The University of Western Australia
Professor Newnham is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist. He has research interests in the areas of fetal medicine, prevention of pre-term birth, fetal maturation, and fetal inflammation.

Paquita Sutherland
MECom BBus
Marketing and Development Manager
Paquita joined the Foundation in 2005. She was previously the Marketing Manager at a number of technology companies and head of a conference company in South Africa.

Dr Dorota Doherty
BSc(hons) PhD
Head, Biostatistics and Research Design Unit
Dr Doherty heads up the Biostatistics and Research Design Unit at WIRF. The role of the Unit is to provide biostatistical consultation and collaboration in the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation and reporting of research conducted at King Edward Memorial Hospital and affiliated institutions.

Andrea Cole
BCom CA
Accountant
Andrea worked for Deloittes Touche Tohmatsu prior to joining the Foundation in 2003 as a Chartered Accountant.

Dr Tim Moss
BSc (Hons) PhD
Manager, The Lotteries Commission/Women and Infants Research Foundation Perinatal Research Laboratories
Dr Moss is a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Women's and Infants' Health at The University of Western Australia.  The research interests of Dr Moss include fetal and postnatal effects of antenatal corticosteroids, development of novel strategies for fetal maturation prior to preterm birth, pre- and postnatal effects of intrauterine inflammation and investigation of continual positive airway pressure ventilatory support after preterm birth. Dr Moss Heads the Lotteries Commission/Women and Infants Research Foundation Perinatal Research Laboratories, a state-of-the-art large animal facility, including surgical theatres, animal laboratories, wet lab.

Dr Deborah Sloboda
PhD Forrest Fellow in Maternal Fetal Medicine
Dr Sloboda is a Research Associate with the School of Women's and Infants' Health at The University of Western Australia and Heads the WIRF/UWA Research Labs. Her research interests are in the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease. This field of research is aimed at describing the mechanisms by which a variety of human diseases are programmed during intrauterine development.

Professor Peter Hartmann
BRURSC (Hons) PhD
Professor in Biochemistry-The University of Western Australia
Dr Hartmann’s research has a strong emphasis on the comparative biochemistry of lactation. He has studied milk synthesis and hormonal control of milk production.  Dr. Hartmann has published extensively on the synthesis and secretion of milk over the entire lactation cycle of women - from conception to weaning. Currently his research is directed towards understanding the control of milk secretion in women with the aim of developing clinical protocols for the assessment of the normal function of the lactating breast. In addition, research is continuing on the assessment of the efficiency of electric breast pumps.

Dr Craig Pennell
MBBS (Hons), FRANZCOG
Forrest Fellow in Maternal Fetal Medicine
Dr Pennell’s research interests are in the areas of fetal medicine, intrauterine fetal therapy and mechanisms of perinatal brain injury. Dr Pennell divides his time between doing research for the Foundation, practising as an Obstetrician at King Edward Memorial Hospital and being a Senior Lecturer, School of Women's and Infants' Health, The University of Western Australia.