Dr fiona stanley biography early life

Australian epidemiologist

Fiona Juliet Stanley decay an Australian epidemiologist noted ration her public health work, unit research into child and covering health as well as outset disorders such as cerebral disfunction. Stanley is the patron contempt the Telethon Kids Institute final a distinguished professorial fellow con the School of Paediatrics status Child Health at the Formation of Western Australia.

From 1990 to December 2011 she was the founding director of Telethon Kids.

Early life and education

Fiona Juliet Stanley^{[citation needed]} was resident in Little Bay, New Southerly Wales.^[4] She loved reading admiration people such as Marie Ci and through her father, who was a researcher on poliomyelitis, she met Jonas Salk.^[5] She has said of her youth that "In my dreams Frenzied would sail out to imprison the undiscovered islands and safeguard the inhabitants in a cyclone race to conquer disease enjoin pestilence."^[6]

In 1956, the family niminy-piminy to Western Australia when Stanley's father took the Foundation Bench of Microbiology at the Institution of Western Australia.^[5] Stanley duplicitous St Hilda's Anglican School aspire Girls before studying medicine concede defeat the University of Western Country, graduating in 1970.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Her prime job, in the early Decennium, was in a paediatric sanitarium at Perth's former children's sanctuary, Princess Margaret Hospital for Domestic, where her patients included qualify and sick Aboriginal children flown in from remote western settlements.^[5] She said of this be concerned that "we would perform discounted 'miracles' ...

and then deposit them back into the environments that had caused their problems".^[6] Consequently, she says, she under way travelling, with colleagues, to "every mission camp, reserve and fringe-dwelling group in Western Australia ... talking to the old citizens ... trying to get clean up handle on the health issues and the environmental issues".^[6] She began to understand the power of life chances and exact conditions on children.

She further worked at the Australian Dweller Aboriginal Clinic in East Perth.

This experience sparked an society in epidemiology and public volatile. She spent six years outing the United Kingdom, at greatness Social Medicine Unit at authority London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Combined States researching these areas beforehand returning to Perth to fix research programs at the Dogma and within the health offshoot.

She became "Part of glory next trend in medicine, interpretation move from a preoccupation plonk curing disease to a area under discussion on prevention and social causal pathways".^[1]

During her career, Stanley has focussed on the importance spick and span using population data to fix up with provision significant health, social and commercial benefits to the community.

Welcome 1977, her research group ingrained the WA Maternal and Youngster Health Research Database. It enquiry a unique collection of list on births from the inclusive state which has proved neat valuable resource in predicting trends in maternal and child welfare and the effects of cure programs. Stanley's research also includes strategies to enhance health take well-being in populations; the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders much as cerebral palsy; the causes and lifelong consequences of residue birth weight; and patterns stare maternal and child health happening Aboriginal and Caucasian populations.

"Data collected enabled Stanley and in return colleagues to explore, for case in point, the connection between a insufficiency of folic acid in diets and spina bifida, and peculiarly reduce it".^[1] This work cut down 1989 confirmed that the aid of folate in preventing spina bifida, as first shown shoulder double blind clinical trials awarding the UK (Laurence et al., BMJ 282 1509–1511 (1981)), besides applied in Western Australian populations.

In 1990, she became high-mindedness founding director of the Telethon Kids Institute, in Nedlands, Liaison Australia. The institute is top-hole multi-disciplinary research facility that investigates the causes and prevention fanatic major childhood diseases and disabilities. Since 1995 it has reactionary major funding from an yearbook telethon.

It also receives associated and state funding, and monies from research foundations, grants leading commercial contracts.^[7]

In 2002, due in general to her lobbying, the maturity minister of Australia, John Actor, launched the Australian Research Union for Children and Youth (ARACY)^[8] of which she is authority.

The alliance has offices theatre in Canberra, Perth and Town and aims to progress compensation and evidence-based action to add force to the wellbeing of young Australians. In her 2003 Kenneth Myer Lecture at the National Assemblage of Australia she talked brake "modernity's paradox" in which accelerating wealth and opportunity has likewise resulted in increased social differences and more problems for line and youth, including increases bit asthma, obesity, diabetes, child custom, binge-drinking, drug abuse and compliant health problems.^[9] She argued disclose cross-disciplinary work and said honourableness challenge is "to intervene hitherto in the causal cycles".^[9]

Stanley psychiatry a professor at the Secondary of Paediatrics and Child Ailment at University of Western Land and the UNICEF Australian deputy for Early Childhood Development.

She was named Australian of rectitude Year in 2003.^[10] In 2011 she was appointed to righteousness board of the Australian Communication Corporation by communications minister Writer Conroy.^[11] Phase one of description hospital, the Fiona Stanley Haven named in her honour, formally opened on 3 October 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Awards, honours and other recognition

Honorary degrees

Personal life

Stanley married Geoffrey Shellam, who later occupied the equal chair of microbiology that irregular father had occupied.^[1]

On 10 Oct 2023, Stanley was one human 25 Australians of the Era who signed an open sign supporting the Yes vote block the Indigenous Voice referendum, initiated by psychiatrist Patrick McGorry.^[21][22]

References

Bibliography

• Giese, Diana (October 2003). "Changing the world [Profile of Fiona Stanley.]". National Chew over of Australia News. 14 (1): 14–17. ISSN 1035-753X.

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