The National Scientific Advisory Group (NSAG) is made up of experts in the fields of pregnancy, infant and child safety. The group meets regularly during the year to provide advice and expertise to ensure Red Nose’s research and education programs are informed by the latest best-practice evidence.
Professor Karen Waters
Chair, NSAG
Senior Staff Specialist (Sleep Medicine) and Conjoint Professor, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and The University of Sydney (MBBS, FRACP, PhD, GCCM).
Karen is a Paediatrician who has combined her clinical work at the Children’s Hospital with her research in SIDS for over 25 years. She is Head of Sleep Medicine at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and also heads the SIDS and Sleep Apnoea Research Group at that hospital.
Professor Adrienne Gordon
Deputy Chair, NSAG
Neonatologist and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital The University of Sydney. Adrienne is a Neonatal Staff Specialist in the RPA centre for newborn care and an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. She has a Masters of Public Health and a PhD on risk factors for stillbirth for which she received an NHMRC Public Health Scholarship. She is interested in perinatal topics with a public health impact that could improve pregnancy and newborn outcomes.
Dr Susan Arbuckle
Dr Susan Arbuckle is a senior Staff Specialist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Histopathology. She is on the NSW Maternal and Perinatal Committee and on the Perinatal Outcomes Working Party. She also sits on the State Birth Defects Committee and has been involved with PSANZ and with the Stillbirth Project. In the past she has been involved with college committees and organising the paediatric and perinatal component of various meetings.
Associate Professor Fran Boyle
Assoc Prof Fran Boyle is a social scientist at The University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research and Co-lead of the Care after Stillbirth Program at the Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth (Stillbirth CRE). Fran has a background in psychology and public health and is engaged in health services research and evaluation in a range of hospital and community settings.
Dr Carrington Shepherd
Dr Carrington Shepherd is a Senior Research Fellow (PhD, Curtin University) at the Telethon Kids Institute (TKI), and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Murdoch University and the University of WA.
He has led the Child Mortality Research program at TKI since 2010, which features the use of unique population data to investigate ways of reducing preventable and unexplained deaths in the early life course.
Nicole Hasseldine
Nicole is a bereaved mother to daughter Isla who lived 6 days in NICU after suffering birthing complications at 38 weeks in 2016. Since then she has become incredibly passionate about the bereavement support offered to maternity staff and families experiencing child loss in hospitals. Nicole has developed ISLA grief & loss, which works to improve the confidence and capabilities of front-line maternity staff through perinatal bereavement education.
Dr Lorraine du Toit-Prinsloo
Dr Lorraine du Toit-Prinsloo is the Chief Forensic Pathologist and Clinical Director of Forensic Medicine, NSW Health Pathology, Forensic and Analytical Science Service.
She trained as a forensic pathologist in South Africa. She has supervised undergraduate and post-graduate students and acted as an examiner both nationally and internationally. She has several published articles and 4 book chapters.
Professor Roger Byard AO PSM FAHMS
Emeritus member of NSAG
Professor Roger Byard AO PSM, FAHMS holds the Marks Chair of Pathology at The University of Adelaide and is a Senior Specialist Forensic Pathologist at Forensic Science SA in Adelaide, Australia. He has been associated with Red Nose (formerly SIDS and Kids) for 34 years as a researcher, pathologist, advisor and counsellor to families.
Professor Heather Jeffery AO
Emeritus Member of NSAG
Heather Jeffery AO, MB BS, PhD, MPH, FRACP, MRCP (UK). Heather has extensive experience in Maternal and Child Health/ Neonatology in low/middle income countries. She has worked as the Professor of International Maternal and Child Health (Hon), at Sydney School of Public Health; Paediatrician – Neonatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney; and Gates Foundation Clinical Trials Manager, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney.
Associate Professor Jane Freemantle OAM
Emeritus member of NSAG
Associate Professor Jane Freemantle OAM holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Adelaide and a PhD (Paediatrics) from the University of Western Australia. Professor Freemantle’s main career focus is as a paediatric epidemiologist working with total population linked data describing Indigenous infants, children and young people and communities, nationally and internationally.
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