I am a clinical academic having trained and worked as a Paediatrician, specialising in Neonatal Medicine in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. More recently I have been also working in medical education.

My research interests have spanned three main areas: microvascular physiology; Opioid exposed infants; Perinatal clinical trials.

My microvacular physiology work commenced in premature neonates but now extends to using the same tools across diferent age groups, disease processes and even species, with work in a number of animal models.

My clinical interests in opioid exposed infants has led me both large scale epimiologicaql studsies of outcomes and development of animal models to understand our treatment and prevention options.

I have been involved in perinatal clinical trials for the past 20 years, leading their uptake in non-capital city centres and resulting in practice changing papers in  the highest ranking  journals.

I have a developing interest in Health Professional Education research.

Teaching

• MD4011: Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine Part 1 of 3 (Level 4; TSV)
• MD4012: Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine Part 2 of 3 (Level 4; TSV)
• MD4013: Integrated Pathology and Clinical Medicine Part 3 of 3 (Level 4; TSV)
• MD5010: Integrated Clinical Practice Part 1 of 3 (Level 5; TSV)
• MD5020: Integrated Clinical Practice Part 2 of 3 (Level 5; TSV)
• MD5030: Integrated Clinical Practice Part 3 of 3 (Level 5; TSV)
• MD6010: Advanced Clinical Medicine Part 1 of 3 (Level 6; TSV)
• MD6020: Advanced Clinical Medicine Part 2 of 3 (Level 6; TSV)
• MD6030: Advanced Clinical Medicine Part 3 of 3 (Level 6; TSV)

Research Disciplines

• Paediatrics (3213)

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Journal Articles

• Cleary J, Dalton S, Harman A and Wright I (2020) Current practice in the introduction of solid foods for preterm infants. Public Health Nutrition, 23 (1), pp. 94-101, DOI:10.1017/S1368980019002337.
• McKimmie-Doherty M, Arnolda G, Buckmaster A, Owen L, Hodgson K, Wright I, Roberts C, Davis P, Manley B and For the HUNTER trial investigators (2020) Predicting nasal high-flow treatment success in newborn infants with respiratory distress cared for in nontertiary hospitals. Journal of Pediatrics, 227, pp. 135-141, DOI:10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.07.037.
• Sousa-Sá E, Zhang Z, Pereira J, Wright I, Okely A and Santos R (2020) Systematic review on retinal microvasculature, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and adiposity in children and adolescents. Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics, 109 (10), pp. 1956-1973, DOI:10.1111/apa.15204.
• Uebel H, Wright I, Burns L, Hilder L, Bajuk B, Breen C, Abdel-Latif M, Falconer J, Clews S, Ward M, Eastwood J and Oei J (2020) Characteristics and causes of death in children with neonatal abstinence syndrome. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 56 (12), pp. 1933-1940, DOI:10.1111/jpc.15091.
• Dyson R, Palliser H, Wilding N, Kelly M, Chwatko G, Glowacki R, Berry M, Ni X and Wright I (2019) Microvascular circulatory dysregulation driven in part by cystathionine gamma-lyase: a new paradigm for cardiovascular compromise in the preterm newborn. Microcirculation, 26 (2), Article: e12507, DOI:10.1111/micc.12507.
• Lingwood B, Eiby Y, Bjorkman S, Miller S and Wright I (2019) Supporting preterm cardiovascular function. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, 46 (3), pp. 274-279, DOI:10.1111/1440-1681.13044.
• Manley B, Arnolda G, Wright I, Owen L, Foster J, Huang L, Roberts C, Clark T, Fan W, Fang A, Marshall I, Pszczola R, Davis P and Buckmaster A (2019) Nasal high-flow therapy for newborn infants in special care nurseries. New England Journal of Medicine, 380 (21), pp. 2031-2040, DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1812077.
• O’Hara K, Schneider J, Jones A, Wright I, Martin J and Galettis P (2019) Development of an UHPLC-MS/MS method for remifentanil quantification in a small plasma volume. Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, 42 (15-16), pp. 521-527, DOI:10.1080/10826076.2019.1631178.
• Sinclair R, Bajuk B, Guaran R, Challis D, Sheils J, Abdel-Latif M, Hilder L, Wright I and Oei J (2019) Active care of infants born between 22 and 26 weeks of gestation does not follow consensus expert recommendations. Acta Paediatrica, 108 (7), pp. 1222-1229, DOI:10.1111/apa.14714.
• Townsend M, Kelly M, Pickard J, Larkin T, Flood V, Caputi P, Wright I, Jones A and Grenyer B (2019) Illawarra Born cross-generational health study: feasibility of a multi-generational birth cohort study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5 (1), Article: 32, DOI:10.1186/s40814-019-0418-5.
• Yeo K, Lahra M, Bajuk B, Hilder L, Abdel-Latif M, Wright I and Oei J (2019) Long-term outcomes after group B streptococcus infection: a cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104 (2), pp. 172-178, DOI:10.1136/archdischild-2017-314642.
• Yeoh S, Eastwood J, Wright I, Morton R, Melhuish E, Ward M and Oei J (2019) Cognitive and motor outcomes of children with prenatal opioid exposure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Network Open, 2 (7), Article: e197025, DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.7025.

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