Professor Melissa Wake (MBChB, FRACP, FAHMS, MD) is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Scientific Director of the Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative. Her “population paediatrics” agenda spans common childhood conditions and antecedents of diseases of ageing.
Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. Having led numerous community-based randomised trials, her major focus for this triennium is building the Generation Victoria (GenV) and Child Health CheckPoint platforms for generations of researchers. Awards include the 2009 Australian Health Minister's Prize for Excellence in Health & Medical Research and consecutive NHMRC Excellence Awards (2009-12, 2013-16) as top-ranked Research Fellow in Australia. Melissa’s projects have twice appeared in the NHMRC's annual 'Ten of the Best' publication (2008, 2017).Successes in research translation include securing the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, which now screens 80,000 babies annually and is springboarding a continuing program of population-based hearing research. Other Affiliations:• Scientific Director, Generation Victoria (GenV)• Leader, Prevention Innovation Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.• Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.• Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne.• Honorary Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Impact of a Behavioral Sleep Intervention on New School Entrants? Social Emotional Functioning and Sleep: A Translational Randomized Trial
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
‘Ten of the Best’ 2017 One of ten outstanding completed awards across all categories each year, from around 1000 funded by the NHMRC.
Director’s Award for Outstanding Achievement ($100,000 prize)
Elizabeth Blackburn Fellow: Highest-ranked Public Health Research Fellowship to a female applicant (#1046518)
Excellence Award: Highest-ranked Research Fellowship
(Harriet Hiscock and Melissa Wake)
Population Health Career Development Award Level 2
This publication celebrates ten outstanding Project Grants each year, from around 700 funded by the Australian NH&MRC.
Finalist, Editor’s Award for Outstanding Research in Audiology and the Hearing Sciences,for Outcomes of mild-profound congenital hearing impairment
2004 - 2008
"Aetiology of Congenital Hypothyroidism Determines Early Thyroxine Response"
Credentials
Positions
Honorary
Paediatrics Royal Children'S Hospital
Foundation Elected Fellow
Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences (FAHMS)
Registered
The DOHaD Society of Australia and New Zealand (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease)
Nominated And Seconded Member
US Society for Pediatric Research
Fellow
Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
Education
Doctor of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of Melbourne
Diploma of Child Health
The University of Glasgow
Diploma of Obstetrics
University of Auckland
MB ChB with Distinction in Paediatrics
University of Otago