19 Sep 2019

Elizabeth Elliott: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

From Nine To Noon, 9:23 am on 19 September 2019
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Professor Elizabeth Elliott talks to Kathryn Ryan about her work of over twenty years researching and developing policies to curtail Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in children and alcohol use in pregnancy.

A distinguished Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health in the Sydney University School of Medicine and Health, also a consultant paediatrician, Elizabeth is behind Australia's guide to diagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in children.  For the past decade Elizabeth has been working with at-risk communities in north western Australia, where one in five children are affected.  Elizabeth is a keynote speaker at today's Cutting Edge conference.