Dr Andrew Ramsden MB BChir (Cantab), FRCP, FRACP, FRCPCH.

Research Clinician

Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research

Dr Ramsden qualified in medicine in 1975, at from Cambridge University, England. His training in neonatal paediatrics began in 1978 at University College, London, where as a Lecturer from 1979 and Senior Lecturer from 1983, he was greatly influenced by Osmund Reynolds and Leonard Strang - both pioneers in the field of neonatal respiration. Dr Ramsden’s career as an investigator began in Strang’s laboratory at UCL where he studied the endocrine signalling and membrane transport mechanisms responsible for clearance of fetal lung liquid at the time of birth, and acquired a keen belief in the value of basic scientific investigation to clinical practice and training.

Dr Ramsden came to the Department of Newborn Services at Monash in 1988 and has been Director of the Department since 2000. Dr Ramsden is member of a number of scientific and clinical academic societies including the prestigious Physiological Society in the United Kingdom, of which he has been a member since 1990. At Monash, Dr Ramsden has continued his interest in perinatal respiratory development and in techniques of respiratory support of the critically ill newborn.