Professor Hiscock is a consultant paediatrician and National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow. She is Associate Director, Research at the Centre for Community Child Health, Director of the Royal Children’s Hospital Health Services Research Unit and Group Leader, Health Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Her research focuses on developing, testing and implementing novel approaches to: (i) keep children out of hospital; (ii) reduce low value (wasteful) care; and (iii) integrate health, social and education services to improve health and wellbeing for children, including those living with family adversity. She has published over 180 peer reviewed papers and been awarded continuous NHMRC funding since 2002 including a current CRE in Childhood Adversity and Mental Health, as CIA. She is assisted by a team of around 20 multi-disciplinary students and researchers. Professor Hiscock has a strong focus on translation beyond traditional methods, including her infant sleep e- learning package for professionals, MCRI Sleep podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sleep/id1466905974) for parents and clinicians (> 15,000 downloads in the first month), a sleep app designed to help parents manage common child behaviour problems and rollout of her Infant Sleep program to 1,200 Victorian maternal and child health nurses, for which she was awarded the 2010 Early Years Minister's Award for Partnerships with Families and Communities. Her work informs content of the federal government-funded Raising Children Network Parenting site. She has co-authored a report which led to inclusion of a child mental health measure in the Victorian School Entry Health Questionnaire that enables earlier detection and management of child mental health problems.
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Repeated presentation of children and adolescents to the emergency department following self-harm: A retrospective audit of hospital data
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Rue Wright Memorial Award presentation finalist. RACP Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide.
Career Development Fellowship (Level 2) 2014 - 2017
RACP Fellow’s Contribution Award
Career Development Award (Level 1) 2010 - 2013
Mentors Award - Special Commendation
Victorian government Early Years Minister's Award for Partnerships with Families and Communities for Infant Sleep Program
MCRI Rising Star Award for excellence in research less than 10 years post doctorate
Rue Wright Memorial Prize for best community child health research. Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting
Jeffrey Mahemoff Travel Scholarship
NHMRC Public Health Scholarship
Young Investigator Award Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting.
RCH Research Institute Trainee Research Scholarship
Credentials
Positions
Honorary
Paediatrics Royal Children'S Hospital
Working Party For National Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Trial
Working Party for National Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Trial
Working Party For National Survey Of Sleep Habits Of Australian Children
Sleep Health Foundation
Working Party For Child And Adolescent Component Of The National Mental Health And Wellbeing Survey, Dept Of Health And Aging
Working Party for Child and Adolescent component of the National Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey, Dept of Health and Aging
Working Party For Access To Allied Health Professionals Services, Dept Of Health And Aging
Working Party for Access to Allied Health Professionals Services, Dept of Health and Aging
Co-Convenor
Victorian Clinical Research Network (ongoing)
Scientific Program Committee (Ongoing)
International Congress of Pediatrics
Victorian Government Perinatal Mental Health Initiative Subcommittees: Research And Clinical Pathways
Victorian government Perinatal Mental Health Initiative subcommittees: research and clinical pathways
Expert Content Advisor, Raising Children Network (Ongoing)
Expert content advisor, Raising Children Network (ongoing)
Representative For The Racp, Paediatric And Child Health Division
Department of Health and Ageing Child Mental Health Stakeholder Group
Steering Group, Australian Paediatric Research Network (Ongoing)
Steering group, Australian Paediatric Research Network (ongoing)
Racp Paediatric Scientific Program Committee (Ongoing)
RACP Paediatric Scientific Program Committee (ongoing)
National Raising Children Network Website; Expert Advisor On Sleep Content (Ongoing)
National Raising Children Network website; expert advisor on sleep content (ongoing)
Racp Research Advisory Group (Ongoing)
RACP Research Advisory Group (ongoing)
Education
Doctor of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Hons)
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Monash University