Dr Monica Lahra

Monica Lahra is a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and trained as a Microbiologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. Her recently completed PhD thesis investigated the association between intrauterine infection, inflammation, fetal outcomes and pulmonary impact in preterm infants. She is currently at the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and working with the University of Sydney on a capacity building project with the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Her research interests include perinatal infection, infection in childhood and vaccine preventable diseases.  She is the co author of the chapter The Impact of Infection in Pregnancy in the 4^th edition of Fetal and Neonatal Pathology by JW. Keeling and T. Yee Khong(Eds) 2007.

Professor William Rawlinson

Professor Rawlinson is director of the Virology Division, in the Microbiology Department, South Eastern Area Laboratory Services (SEALS) at Prince of Wales Hospital. He is a medical virologist and infectious diseases physician, consulting to Prince of Wales, Sydney Children’s Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women. He supervises laboratories performing reference viral serology and virus detection, and oversees the day-to-day medical virology questions relating to clinical and laboratory diagnostic issues particularly hepatitis viruses, herpesviruses, gastroenteritis agents, and endogenous retroviruses.

He also currently holds positions at the University of NSW (UNSW) and South East Health at SEALS. Professor Rawlinson is on numerous committees and reviews a number of scientific international journal articles.
 

Former Committee Member - Dr Fiona Mackintosh

Dr C. Fiona Mackintosh is a general practitioner currently working in Clovelly, Sydney. She graduated from Newcastle University and completed her residency at St George Hospital.

Interests in womens health and paediatrics led her to complete post graduate Diplomas in Obstetrics and Paediatrics prior to becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2001.

Fiona now combines part time work in general practice with other special interests – teaching for the College, and Northern Sydney Clinical School –and as an assistant in a private fertility practice.