Lisa has particular interests in prenatal diagnosis, infectious diseases and genetics.
Biography
Lisa is a maternal fetal medicine specialist with special interests in prenatal screening and diagnosis, particularly the use of cell-free nucleic acids in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities and prediction of obstetric complications. She is Director of Genetics at the Mercy Hospital for Women, which looks after patients throughout the northeast of Melbourne and regional Victoria.
She holds an MRFF investigator fellowship in the Genomics Health Futures Priority scheme, is a team leader in the Reproductive Epidemiology group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is an active member of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis and an associate editor of its official scientific journal Prenatal Diagnosis. Lisa is involved in RANZCOG activities through the Genomics Advisory Working Party and MFM subspeciality examinations. She also sits on the Stillbirth Subcommittee of the Victorian Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity, which is the advisory body to the Minister of Health.