The Ritchie Centre

Scientists & staff

Centre Director
Professor Euan Wallace

PA to the Director
Lisieux Jones

Deputy Directors
Professor Stuart Hooper
Associate Professor Rosemary Horne
Professor Graham Jenkin

Centre Senior Manager
Vojta Brodecky

Centre Administrators
Jill McFadyean
Alison Moxham

Senior Research Fellows and Senior Scientists
Dr Philip Berger, Senior Research Fellow
Dr Caroline Gargett, Senior Scientist, NHMRC RD Wright Research Fellow
Dr Suzie Miller, Senior Scientist
Dr Tim Moss, NHMRC RD Wright Research Fellow
Dr Gillian Nixon, Senior Scientist, Senior Research Fellow
Dr Stephen Tong, Senior Scientist, Carl Wood Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor David Walker, Senior Scientist, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow

Research Fellows
Dr Beth Allison
Dr Sarah Biggs
Dr Margie Castillo-Melendez
Dr Kelly Crossley
Dr Denise O’Driscoll, TSANZ Allen & Hanburys Respiratory Research Fellow
Dr Hayley Dickinson, ARC Australian Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Dr Mandar Joshi, Victor Y-H Yu Research Fellow
Dr Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino, NHMRC Biomedical Postdoctoral Training Fellow
Dr Rebecca Lim
Dr Hirotaka Masuda
Dr Claudia Nold
Dr Premila Paiva
Dr Graeme Polglase, NHMRC Peter Doherty Research Fellow
Dr Gayathri Rajaraman
Dr Heidi Richardson, NHMRC Biomedical Postdoctoral Training Fellow
Dr Elaine Stockx
Dr Megan Wallace
Dr Lisa Walter 
Dr Tania Wilmann
Dr Flora Wong, Consultant Neonatologist,Monash Newborn, 
Kathleen Tinsley Research Fellow
Dr Tamara Yawno
Dr. Stephanie Yiallourou (Kaarene Fitzgerald Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Adjunct Professors
Professor Adrian Walker
Professor Victor Yu AM

Research Clinicians
Dr Elizabeth Carse, Senior Consultant, Monash Newborn
Dr Margot Davey, Director, Melbourne Children’s Sleep Unit
Dr Tony Lewis, Deputy Director, Monash Newborn
Dr Atul Malhotra, Consultant Neonatologist, Monash Newborn
Dr Andrew Ramsden, Director, Monash Newborn
Dr Arvind Seghal, Consultant Neonatologist, Monash Newborn
Dr Kenneth Tan, Consultant Neonatologist, Monash Newborn
Dr Alex Veldman, Consultant Neonatologist, Monash Newborn

Joanne Mockler, Research Midwife,Clinical Perinatal Trial Coordinator

Research Assistants
Rutu Acharya
Erah Anwar
Isabella Ciurej
Siow Ting Chan
Jan Loose
Jyosthna Rao
Burcu Saglam
Elizabeth Skuza
Valerie Zahra

Technical Assistants
Marie Papaioannou
Karyn Rogers

PhD Students
Irene Apostolopolous
Ana Baburamani
Dr Tony Goldschalger
Dr Ryan Hodges
Sonya Hubbard
Rob Galinsky
Kelly Kenna
Anna Kourbasis
Annie McDougall
Jacqueline Melville
Sean Murphy
Hong Nguyen
Bree O’Connell
Dr Kirsten Palmer
Tracey Quinn
Udani Ratanayake
Scott Sands
Thillini Samarasinghe
George Schmoelzer
Melissa Siew
Kristina Sobotka
Amy Sutherland
Charmaine Tan
Patricia Vosdoganes
Alana Westover
Kevin Wheeler
Dr Clare Whitehead (MD Student)
Louie Ye

Masters Students
Dr Nick Hall, Master of Surgery Student
Wendy Fangyuan Yang, Master of Science Student

Occupational Trainee
Dr Bjorn Wallerbos

Honours Students
Smitha Boddupalli
Suzane Chin
Melinda Dolan
Ezzat  Afandi
Megan McFarlane
Hazwani MdNoor
Hi Huy Ming
Katie Moores
Laren Nisbet
Catherine Pilapil
Pallavi Prathivadi
Dharini Sivakumar