Dr Gehan Roberts

Principal Research Fellow
Population Health
Mostar University Hospital
Australia

Professor Pediatrics
Biography

A/Professor Gehan Roberts is a Developmental-Behavioural Paediatrician, based at the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, and Principal research fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He completed his clinical fellowship in child development at the Boston Children's Hospital. He has a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University and a PhD in the field of child development from the University of Melbourne. Gehan coordinates the Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health and provides research and clinical supervision and teaching at both an undergraduate and post-graduate level.

Research Intrest

child health

List of Publications
Roberts G, Anderson PJ, Doyle LW, Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group. The stability of the diagnosis of developmental disability between ages 2 and 8 in a geographic cohort of very preterm children born in 1997. Archives of disease in childhood. 2010 Oct 1;95(10):786-90.
Roberts G, Lim J, Doyle LW, Anderson PJ. High rates of school readiness difficulties at 5 years of age in very preterm infants compared with term controls. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 2011 Feb 1;32(2):117-24.
Roberts G, Cheong J, Opie G, Carse E, Davis N, Duff J, Lee KJ, Doyle L, Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group. Growth of extremely preterm survivors from birth to 18 years of age compared with term controls. Pediatrics. 2013 Feb 1;131(2):e439-45.