Dr Emily Cohen, a joint PhD student between The Ritchie
Centre, Hudson Institute and Utrecht University has successfully ‘defended’
her thesis on fetal growth restriction in the Netherlands.
Emily’s PhD thesis was titled From Head to Heart: the
effects of fetal growth restriction and preterm birth on the cerebral and
systemic circulation and she conducted her research using data on growth
restricted babies from both Australia and the Netherlands.
Emily’s PhD thesis was titled From Head to Heart: the
effects of fetal growth restriction and preterm birth on the cerebral and
systemic circulation and she conducted her research using data on growth
restricted babies from both Australia and the Netherlands.
In The Ritchie Centre, Emily recruited a total of 67 growth
restricted and appropriately grown infants throughout the first few months of
life. She investigated a variety of parameters that define cardiovascular
function, such as heart function using echocardiography and heart rate control.
Emily produced a review and four first author manuscripts
from this part of her thesis. She was supervised by Prof Rosemary Horne, A/Prof
Flora Wong and Dr Stephanie Yiallourou and received a scholarship from Red Nose
(formerly SIDS and Kids) for the Melbourne part of her project.
Emily also analysed existing data from The Netherlands on
brain oxygenation and brain blood flow in IUGR and appropriately grown newborns
and wrote a second review and a further three peer reviewed publications.
The thesis defense was held in the lovely Academiegebouw at
Utrecht University with six examiners questioning Emily over 50 minutes with
friends and family present. Afterwards there was champagne and Dutch nibbles.
Rosemary and Stephanie travelled to Utrecht to celebrate.
Written by Prof Rosemary Horne
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