Dr Elizabeth Carse

Senior Consultant, Monash Newborn

Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research

Dr. Elizabeth Carse completed her degree in medicine at Melbourne University in 1971. Dr. Carse trained in neonatal paediatrics at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne.

Dr. Carse held consultant posts at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourneand Mater Hospital Newcastle, before taking up her present position as neonatologist at Monash Medical Centre and is also a clinician for The Ritchie Centre and is a vital part of the team that allows current research to translate through to practical and successful clinical applications for pre-term newborns.

She is also Head of the Growth and Development Clinic, which carries out long term neurodevelopmental follow-up of extremely preterm and high risk babies and is actively involved in collaborative studies.

Dr Carse currently collaborates on a number of projects and represents the Monash Medical Centre on the collaborative group: Victorian Infant Collaborative Study (VICS) where she is undertaking the internationally recognized NHMRC funded study: Outcome in adolescence of extremely preterm babies born in 1991-2.
This study will aim to determine the health outcomes in the teenage years of children who were born either before 28 weeks or with birth weights under 1000g in 1991-92, compared with children who were not pre term and of normal birth weight.