Associate Professor Kirsten Palmer

A/Prof Kirsten Palmer (BBiomed Sci, MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRANZCOG, CMFM) is an obstetrician and maternal fetal medicine specialist at Monash Health, Victoria, Australia, where she heads the Maternal Fetal Medicine team at Monash Medical Centre. She also heads the Maternal and Perinatal Medicine translational research group in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University. Her research focuses on improving pregnancy outcomes. She has a particular interest in disorders of placentation, such as pre-eclampsia and fetal growth restriction, where she works to both advance our understanding of these diseases and enhance clinical outcomes through clinical trials of promising new therapeutics. She is the Chief Investigator for the PROTECT Me trial of melatonin for fetal neuroprotection. She has state and national roles in advancing pregnancy care as an executive committee member on the Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Collaborative Trials (IMPACT) Network and a stillbirth sub-committee member for the Victorian consultative council of obstetric and paediatric morbidity and mortality.