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Christopher Barnett
Prof Barnett holds dual fellowships in neonatal/perinatal medicine and clinical genetics and is the Head of the Paediatric and Reproductive Genetics Unit at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He is the Statewide Genomics Lead at the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health. He undertook his dual training at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide.
Prof Barnett has research interests in prenatal genetics, fetal pathology and rare childhood diseases, and is the clinical lead of the NHMRC and MRFF funded Genomic Autopsy Study, a national and international collaborative investigating genetic causes of perinatal death.
He has over 115 publications in peer-reviewed journals including in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Nature Genetics and Nature Medicine.
Sessions
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The Australian National Genomic Autopsy Study: A Summary of Results, Outcomes and Instructive Families from 413 Trios/Quads28-Jan-2026Women & Children's Health Stage