Dr Kirsten Palmer is a clinician researcher. She is an obstetrician and maternal fetal medicine specialist passionate about improving outcomes for women and their babies through both her clinical work and her research. She is a senior research fellow in the Department of O&G at Monash University where she leads the Maternal and Perinatal Medicine Translational research group translating exciting discovery science through to clinical trial. She is also the Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Monash Medical Centre caring for many of the most complex pregnancies.