Dr Kristen Haakons

Kristen is originally from Canada where she worked as a Marine Biologist prior to her medical training. She moved to Sydney for medical school and has continued to call Australia home since. She recently completed her clinical training as a Neonatologist and is now working towards completing her PhD. Kristen hopes to work as a Clinician Researcher in the future.

Kristen has always been passionate about research and loves finding answers to interesting questions. She hopes her research will help to improve outcomes for the babies she and other clinicians care for as well as provides some reassurance to their wonderful parents during a stressful time.

Through her PhD Kristen is investigating how we can better predict which pregnancies may have poor outcomes for Mum or baby when they are complicated by reduced fetal movements. She hopes her work will help clinicians make the best decisions about when to deliver babies whose movements have become abnormal.