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ECI biocommentary: Shiraz Badurdeen

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My introduction to neonatology was as an Academic Clinical Fellow in the Oxford Deanery. This fellowship afforded me the opportunity to travel and experience newborn care in Kenya and Sri Lanka. My commitment to the specialty was sealed when I realised that the conditions affecting newborns were remarkably similar all over the world.

I was offered the opportunity to take the definitive step towards a career in academic neonatology by Prof Peter Davis in Melbourne, Australia. I completed my PhD through Monash University, co-supervised by Prof’s Davis, Hooper, and Polglase. My thesis focused on interventions to optimise oxygenation and cardiac output during the newborn transition at birth. The paper published in this issue of Pediatric Research is a sub-study of the Baby-DUCC trial.1,2 The present work establishes new reference percentiles for regional cerebral tissue oxygen saturation following deferred cord clamping and evaluates the effect of different cord clamping strategies during resuscitation.

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  1. Badurdeen, S. et al. Blood pressure and cerebral oxygenation with physiologically-based cord clamping: sub-study of the BabyDUCC trial. Pediatr Res. (in this issue).

  2. Badurdeen, S. et al. Physiologically based cord clamping for infants ≥32+0 weeks gestation: A randomised clinical trial and reference percentiles for heart rate and oxygen saturation for infants ≥35+0 weeks gestation. PLoS Med. 19, e1004029 (2022).

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  1. Melbourne Children’s Global Health, 50 Flemington Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3052, Australia

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  2. Department of Paediatrics, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, VIC, 3084, Australia

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  3. Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Newborn Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia

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Badurdeen, S. ECI biocommentary: Shiraz Badurdeen. Pediatr Res (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-024-03218-z

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