Flora Wong
A/Prof Flora Wong is a senior consultant neonatologist at Monash Newborn. She holds a NHMRC Leadership Grant (2025-2029) through the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University and is Head of the Neonatal Brain Protection Laboratory at The Ritchie Centre, The Hudson Institute of Medical Research. Her research expertise is in brain injury, neuroprotection and neurodevelopment of the sick infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); with >110 publications and >3600 citations. She has successfully obtained >$8.2M of research funding from NHMRC and various Philanthropic foundations. Her projects focus on mechanisms of newborn brain injury, development of cotside monitoring, optimising neonatal management for brain development, new neuroprotective strategies and early detection/management of neurodevelopmental problems. She has gained international recognition for her work on neonatal cerebral physiology and near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to monitor neonatal cerebral oxygenation, which is published in high impact journals. Translational research is an important theme of her projects, involving complementary experimental studies in the animal models and clinical studies in preterm infants. She leads collaborations between clinicians and scientists, and extensive collaborations internationally. She also leads the Monash Newborn Neurology and Neurodevelopment Group, which consists of medical, nursing and allied health staff working on projects together to improve the neurodevelopmental care of babies admitted into hospital. To find out more see A/Prof Flora Wong's Monash profile.