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Dr Alicia Spittle

Senior Research Fellow
Clinical Sciences
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Academician Physicaltherapy and Rehabilitation
Biography

Dr Spittle is a Physiotherapist and Post-Doctoral Researcher who leads the motor team of the Victorian Infant Brain Studies group. She is a current recipient of a National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship, a Chief Investigator on two NHMRC project grants and a Chief Investigator on the NHRMC Centre of Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine. She has been awarded over $4 million in funding over the past five years and has published in the highest-ranking journals of her field. In addition to her research, she works clinically in the neonatal intensive care unit and follow-up clinic at the Royal Women's Hospital and as a lecturer in paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

Research Intrest

Physiotherapy

List of Publications
Spittle AJ, Spencer-Smith MM, Cheong JL, Eeles AL, Lee KJ, Anderson PJ, Doyle LW. General movements in very preterm children and neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years. Pediatrics. 2013 Aug 1;132(2):e452-8.
Spittle AJ, Thompson DK, Brown NC, Treyvaud K, Cheong JL, Lee KJ, Pace CC, Olsen J, Allinson LG, Morgan AT, Seal M. Neurobehaviour between birth and 40 weeks’ gestation in infants born< 30 weeks’ gestation and parental psychological wellbeing: predictors of brain development and child outcomes. BMC pediatrics. 2014 Apr 24;14(1):111.
Spittle AJ, Orton J. Cerebral palsy and developmental coordination disorder in children born preterm. InSeminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2014 Apr 30 (Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 84-89). WB Saunders.
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