Dr Jeanie Cheong

professor
Clinical Sciences
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Professor Pediatrics
Biography

Dr Jeanie Cheong is a Neonatal Paediatrician with expertise in neonatal neurology, neuroimaging and long term follow up. She is based at the Royal Women's Hospital and is the lead clinician in the Growth and Development clinic. She has several affiliations; as the medical/neurological Team Leader of the Victorian Infant Brain studies group within Murdoch Childrens, the associate convenor of the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study group, and Associate Professor with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne. She is the lead investigator on a National Health and Medical Research Council funded study looking at long term neurodevelopmental outcomes and brain structural changes following late preterm birth.

Research Intrest

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

List of Publications
Fox LM, Choo P, Rogerson SR, Spittle AJ, Anderson PJ, Doyle L, Cheong JL. The relationship between ventricular size at 1 month and outcome at 2 years in infants less than 30 weeks’ gestation. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2014 Jan 9:fetalneonatal-2013.
Cheong JL, Burnett AC, Lee KJ, Roberts G, Thompson DK, Wood SJ, Connelly A, Anderson PJ, Doyle LW, Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group. Association between postnatal dexamethasone for treatment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and brain volumes at adolescence in infants born very preterm. The Journal of pediatrics. 2014 Apr 30;164(4):737-43.
Walsh JM, Doyle LW, Anderson PJ, Lee KJ, Cheong JL. Moderate and late preterm birth: effect on brain size and maturation at term-equivalent age. Radiology. 2014 May 26;273(1):232-40.