Dr Veldman is a Consultant Neonatologist in Monash Newborn based at Monash Medical Centre; Senior Lecturer Researcher in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and researcher in the Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research (RCBHR), of MIMR.
Alex completed his MD in 1997 and has extensive postgraduate training in paediatric cardiology in Europe and Canada. His areas of research include coagulation and inflammation, especially as it relates to the critically ill paediatric and neonatal patient and research on protein C substitution in children with meningococcal sepsis, which has significantly improved the management of these patients. He is presently the chief investigator of the largest post-treatment follow-up in children with purpura fulminans who have been treated with protein C concentrate. In 2002, his report on the use of activated recombinant coagulation factor VII in preterm neonates with massive haemorrhage led to this treatment becoming adopted as the rescue treatment option worldwide.
Associate Professor Rosemary Horne
Associate Professor Horne is the Scientific Director of RCBHR; Head of their Paediatric Sleep Research Group and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. She is the Chair of the Physiology Working Group of the International Society for the Prevention of Infant Death, Director of the International Paediatric Sleep Association and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sleep Research. Her research interests focus on sleep in infants and children and current research projects are investigating mechanisms involved in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, development of cardiorespiratory control in preterm infants and the effects of sleep disordered breathing on daytime performance and the cardiovascular system in children. Rosemary has published over 50 research and review scientific articles and has been an invited speaker at a number of national and international sleep and SIDS research conferences. She has successfully obtained over one million dollars in research funding and currently holds three competitive project grants.
Professor Wei Cheng
Professor Wei Cheng is the Director of Paediatric Surgery, Southern Health; Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Departments of Paediatrics and Surgery, Southern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and researcher in the Cancer Centre at MIMR. He is a paediatric surgeon, trained in Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and Hong Kong with a clinical interest in congenital abnormalities. He underwent PhD training in developmental biology at the Sick Kids Hospital, University of Toronto and focused on the p63 and sonic hedgehog genes in bladder development. Wei’s laboratory is situated in MIMR and focuses on translational research in human genetics of congenital abnormalities as well as gut regeneration. He has authored over 70 publications and presented at more than 80 international conferences. He is an editor of the Chinese Journal of Paediatric Surgery. Wei actively fosters collaborations across disciplines and across the world.
