Karen Simmer Explained

Karen Simmer is an Australian paediatrician and professor of Newborn Medicine at the University of Western Australia and is director of two neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in Perth.[1] She also runs the WA Human Milk Bank and is team leader, neonatal gut health, nutrition and development at the Telethon Kids Institute.

Simmer completed her secondary education at Abbotsleigh in Sydney and undertook an MB BS at the University of Sydney.[2] She graduated from the University of London with a PhD in perinatal nutrition and later completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.[3]

Honours

Simmer was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to medicine in the field of paediatrics, particularly neonatal and perinatal nutrition, to medical education as an academic, researcher and clinician, and to the community".[4] She was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2017.[5]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Karen Simmer AO (1973) - Abbotsleigh. 2020-12-10. www.abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au.
  2. Web site: Karen Simmer. 2020-12-10. the UWA Profiles and Research Repository. en.
  3. Web site: Professor Karen Simmer AO. 2020-12-10. Telethon Kids Institute. en.
  4. Web site: Professor Karen Simmer. 2020-12-10. It's An Honour.
  5. Web site: 2017-10-19. AAHMS Announces its Second Scientific Meeting and Induction of New Fellows. 2020-12-10. Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
  6. Makrides . M. . Neumann . M. A. . Byard . R. W. . Simmer . K. . Gibson . R. A. . 1994 . Fatty acid composition of brain, retina, and erythrocytes in breast- and formula-fed infants . The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . 60 . 2 . 189–194 . 10.1093/ajcn/60.2.189 . 0002-9165 . 7913291.
  7. Makrides . M. . Neumann . M. . Simmer . K. . Pater . J. . Gibson . R. . 1995-06-10 . Are long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids essential nutrients in infancy? . Lancet (London, England) . 345 . 8963 . 1463–1468 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(95)91035-2 . 0140-6736 . 7769900.
  8. Moon . Kwi . Rao . Shripada C. . Schulzke . Sven M. . Patole . Sanjay K. . Simmer . Karen . 2016-12-20 . Longchain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in preterm infants . The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews . 12 . 12 . CD000375 . 10.1002/14651858.CD000375.pub5 . 1469-493X . 6463838 . 27995607.
  9. Jasani . Bonny . Simmer . Karen . Patole . Sanjay K. . Rao . Shripada C. . 2017-03-10 . Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in infants born at term . The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews . 3 . 3 . CD000376 . 10.1002/14651858.CD000376.pub4 . 1469-493X . 6464574 . 28281303.
  10. Hartmann . B. T. . Pang . W. W. . Keil . A. D. . Hartmann . P. E. . Simmer . K. . Australian Neonatal Clinical Care Unit . 2007 . Best practice guidelines for the operation of a donor human milk bank in an Australian NICU . Early Human Development . 83 . 10 . 667–673 . 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.07.012 . 0378-3782 . 17913402.

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