Jeanie Cheong is a neonatologist at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne Australia, and a Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
She is an internationally-recognised clinician-researcher in the long-term outcomes of high-risk infants, in particular those born preterm. She leads the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study, the longest running epidemiological program established to understand the long-term health and developmental outcomes after extremely preterm birth.
She heads the High-Risk Infant Flagship initiative at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, which has a focus on improving precision in prediction and intervention to improve outcomes of high risk newborns.
She is the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine, which supports knowledge generation and translation of research to meaningful outcomes, as well as training the next generation of research leaders.
