Dr Kurt T. Barnhart

Dr. Kurt Barnhart is the Vice Chair and the Director of the Women’s Health Clinical Research Center in the Perelman School of Medicine.  Dr. Barnhart received his medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he performed his residency and fellowship training as well as M.S.C.E. degree (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Barnhart has had continuous NIH funding for his research since 1996, focusing on clinical and epidemiologic aspects of reproduction including ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, and infertility. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as the president for the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility as well as leadership positions in the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and currently serves and the Editor in chief for Fertility and Sterility.

Ms Georgie Haysom

Georgie has worked in health law for 30 years, assisting, advising and educating doctors on a wide range of medico-legal issues, including several years representing doctors in medical negligence litigation. She has worked in advocacy and public policy for the past 12 years, and has led the work at Avant into the medico-legal risks associated with AI in clinical practice. She was a member of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s Privacy and Security Advisory Committee for 9 years (finishing up this year), is a member of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District’s Clinical Ethics Committee, and a member of the NSW Minister of Health’s Health Ethics Advisory Panel. She has a long-standing interest in the interaction between the law, medicine and ethics, and the way in which the law impacts medical practice.   
 

Dr Arunima Jain  

Dr Arunima Jain is a dual-trained Nephrologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician based at the Royal Hospital for Women and Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. She has broad clinical experience across both specialties, with expertise in preconception counselling and pregnancy care for a range of medical conditions including kidney disease and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. She is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA) Parenthood Working Group and Co-Chair of the Australian/Aotearoa New Zealand Preeclampsia Research Network (ANZPN). Dr Jain received an NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship for her PhD at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where her research focuses on improving the identification and management of kidney disease during and beyond pregnancy.

Dr Anna Welch

Dr Anna Walch is an Advanced Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar and CREI Fellow at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Life Fertility, Brisbane, with a conjoint Academic appointment at the University of Queensland. She completed her initial CREI training at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, before returning to Brisbane to complete RANZCOG training and help create the first public / private CREI training pathway for Queensland. Dr Walch’s clinical and research interests span the breadth of reproductive endocrinology and infertility, including controlled ovarian stimulation, IVF optimisation, preimplantation genetic testing, recurrent pregnancy loss, reproductive genetics, fertility preservation, endometriosis, and male factor infertility. She is one of the lead investigators of the CRYSTAL Study, an e-Delphi consensus project conducted in collaboration with the University of Queensland and CHARLI Health, focused on standardising IVF stimulation monitoring parameters and cycle monitoring record presentation across Australian and New Zealand fertility practice. Dr Walch holds a strong commitment to medical education, coordinating undergraduate O&G clinical rotations for UQ medical students, and translating complex reproductive medicine concepts for both trainees and patients.