Professor Julie Bines is the inaugural Victor and Loti Smorgon Professor of Paediatrics and Deputy Head of Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.Professor Bines is a Paediatric Gastroenterologist at The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne where she leads the Clinical Nutrition Program. This program is a national referral centre for children with complex nutritional problems and intestinal failure and is linked with the Australian Paediatric Intestinal Transplantation Program. At the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Professor Bines leads the RV3 Rotavirus Vaccine Program which aims to develop a low-cost vaccine to prevent rotavirus disease from birth.Professor Bines graduated as an M.B.B.S. (Bachelor Medicine, Bachelor Surgery) from Monash University in 1982 and obtained her Doctorate of Medicine (MD) from the University of Melbourne in 1990. She trained in Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (1988-91) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massaschusetts Institute of Technology (1989-91).

Gastroenterology,Clinical Nutrition, Infection and Immunity