Dr Rosemarie Boland is a postdoctoral researcher, senior lecturer, neonatal nurse and midwife with a nursing career spanning 30 years. She completed her PhD in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne in 2014, investigating risk factors for mortality in very preterm babies born in non-tertiary maternity hospitals in Victoria.
She is now leading a five-year postdoctoral program of research aimed at improving outcomes for these babies, supported by a Career Development Award from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Her research investigating the association between birthplace, mortality, and serious morbidity in very preterm babies has attracted national and international attention. She has been the invited speaker at international and national conferences and has given platform presentations at international conferences in North America and Europe. She has published in international peer reviewed journals and is a peer reviewer for local and international perinatal journals. Rosemarie has received several awards and prizes for her research, including a Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) New Investigator Award, PSANZ Travel Grant, Australian College of Neonatal Nurses/Parker Healthcare travel award and Murdoch Children's Research Institute Early-Mid Research Career award. Rosemarie has held the position as statewide perinatal educator with the Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval Service since 2000. She has extensive experience in developing and facilitating education programs for medical, nursing, midwifery and paramedic healthcare providers at undergraduate and post-graduate level and in a variety of healthcare settings. She has developed curriculum for University programs, clinical practice guidelines for Ambulance Victoria and has considerable expertise in translating neonatal resuscitation research into clinical practice. She is the content and educational developer of the Victorian Newborn Resuscitation Project: NeoResus. NeoResus is taught throughout Victoria, Tasmania, and Queensland.
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FEATURED Journal article
Changes in long-term prognosis with increasing postnatal survival and the occurrence of postnatal morbidities in extremely preterm infants offered intensive care: a prospective observational study (vol 2, pg 872, 2018)
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
First Place: Early Mid Career Researcher- Research Week 2018
First Place: Nursing Research and Clinical Innovations Symposium 2018
Early Research Career Travel Grant: to present at the PSANZ 20th Annual Congress 2016
William Kitchen Travel Scholarship- to attend and present at an International Conference in Hawaii
First Place: Best Oral Presentation for "Born before arrival, born too soon"
Kitchen Scholarship to present at an international or national conference
Second Place: Research abstract and presentation
Mona Menzies Major Grant/Postdoctoral Fellowship
First Place: Early-Mid Research Career Poster Symposium
Travel award to present oral presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies, Boston, USA
Three Minute Thesis Competition: First Place
New Investigator Award: Neonatal Nursing
Felix Meyer Faculty Research Scholarship, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2011, 2012 and 2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Mona Menzies, Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy Limited
Postdoctoral Research Felllow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
Credentials
Positions
Senior Lecturer - Teaching Specialist
Nursing
Neonatal Mortality And Morbidity Sub-Committee Member- 3 Year Term: 2019-2021
Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity
Chair: Early Career Research (Erc) Executive
Chair: Early Career Research Executive, Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
Neonatal Mortality And Morbidity Sub-Committee Member- 3 Year Term: 2015-2018
Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity
Member: Neonatal Research Special Interest Group
Australian College of Neonatal Nurses
Early Career Research Executive Member
Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment
Victoria University of Technology
Master of Nursing-Neonatal Nursing
University of Technology Sydney
Registered Obstetric Nurse
St Margaret's Hospital
Bachelor of Applied Science: Advanced Nursing
Cumberland College of Health Sciences