Dr Monica Lahra

Dr Monica Lahra graduated from Medicine at the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Currently she is a NH&MRC Research Fellow in the Department of Neonatal Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Women and Babies, Sydney and the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, where she is completing her PhD under the supervision of Professor Heather Jeffery.

Her research interests include intrauterine infection and its relationship to preterm birth and fetal injury, and infection in the perinatal period.

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.