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Stefan Kane
Stefan Kane
Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist Obstetrician Head, Fetal Medicine Unit, The Royal Women’s Hospital
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Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist Obstetrician, Head, Fetal Medicine Unit, The Royal Women’s Hospital
About Dr Stefan Kane
Stefan is a maternal fetal medicine subspecialist obstetrician at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, where he heads the Fetal Medicine Unit. His clinical engagements cover the spectrum of complex pregnancy care, and include preterm birth prevention, multiple pregnancy, fetal medicine and maternal medical disorders.
He also performs tertiary-level fetal and gynaecological ultrasound. Stefan's primary research focus is on the maternal neurological effects of pre-eclampsia, with other research interests including structural and genetic fetal anomalies, red blood cell alloimmunisation, preterm birth prevention, and early pregnancy prediction of later complications.
He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. Stefan is engaged in teaching at all levels, and is an honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the University of Melbourne Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
He also serves as secretary of the Council of the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand, and is a member of the steering committees for the Women's and Newborn Health network of the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health, and the Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Collaborative Trials (IMPACT) Network of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Why does preventing early birth matter to you?
"Early birth brings with it a range of potential complications for both mothers and babies, in both the short and long term. The safe prevention of early birth would minimise or eliminate many of these complications, thereby optimising the health of the next generation, of which we as maternity clinicians have the privilege of being the custodians."
The Australian Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance is working to safely lower the rate of early birth across Australia.
