Day 2 | Session 3| Concurrent | Maternity care reaching our communities

Reducing preventable stillbirth: a solution focused on equity and access

Our tools for detecting the failing placenta are imperfect. If a blood test could identify which pregnancies were at risk of adverse outcome due to placental insufficiency- and those  that weren't- this could transform care. Such a test could close existing equity gaps, ensuring that all women in late pregnancy could have accurate and reliable information with which we could triage risk and personalise care. 


Professor Sue Walker AO, FAHMS, GAICD

Sheila Hanbury Chair of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Head of Department, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health, The University of Melbourne
Co-Director Mercy Perinatal, Mercy Hospital for Women


Professor Sue Walker is the Sheila Handbury Chair of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Head of Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health at The University of Melbourne. Sue is also co-director of Mercy Perinatal - a 3 pillar centre of excellence committed to clinical care, education and research in high-risk pregnancy. Her own research interests focus on improving the detection and management of fetal growth disorders, treatments for pre-eclampsia, and prevention of stillbirth.

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Access to OB ultrasound across Aotearoa NZ (title TBC)

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