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 inflammation and maturation, and the developmental origins of childhood and adult diseases.

Tina Williams
Marketing and Development Manager
Tina joined our team in January 2009. She brings her broad experience in Marketing/PR, having worked in not for profit organisations, in both health and community sectors. Tina's skills and experience includes marketing & PR, fundraising and sponsorships, media, business development and events management. She has a Diploma in Business and Finance and Graduate Diploma in Marketing and holds professional memberships with FIA (Fundraising Institute of Australia) & AMI (Australian Marketing Institute).

Associate Professor Dorota Doherty
BSc (Hons) PhD
Head, Biostatistics and Research Design Unit
A/Professor 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. She provides a crucial coordination and oversight role for most of the research projects undertaken at the Foundation.

Professor Jeff Keelan
BSc (Hons) MSc PhD MRSNZ
Professor Keelan is director of the Women and Infants Research Laboratories. His research is focused on the formation and function of the placenta and its role in normal and complicated pregnancies. He has expertise in placental pharmacology, endocrinology, immunology and cell biology. Since his arrival in 2007 from Auckland, New Zealand, he has overseen the installation and inauguration of new cell and tissue culture facilities, the expansion of the laboratory's image analysis facilities, and the recruitment of Honours and PhD students to the laboratories.

Associate Professor 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, genetic prediction of pregnancy complications, developmental origins of health and disease and mechanisms of perinatal brain injury. He has close affiliations with the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto, where he carried out his postdoctoral studies, and the World Health Organisation through his involvement in the International Preterm Birth Genomic Project. He is also Scientific Director of the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine Study) Dr Pennell divides his time between doing research for the Foundation, practising as an Obstetrician at King Edward Memorial Hospital and postgraduate teaching at the School of Women's and Infants' Health, The University of Western Australia.

Andrea Cole
BBus CPA
Accountant
Andrea worked as the Finance and Administration Manager of a helicopter company prior to joining the Foundation in 2003 as the Accountant.

Dr Graeme Polglase
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Polglase is manager of the Lotteries Commission/Women and Infants Research Foundation Perinatal Research Laboratories, and a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Women's and Infants' Health at The University of Western Australia. He is a fetal physiologist with particular interest in the maturation of the fetal cardiovascular and pulmonary systems.

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.