Julia Charlton, NICU Medical Director (BC Women’s Hospital)
Name:
Dr. Julia Charlton
Role:
Clinical Associate Professor (UBC), NICU Medical Director (BC Women’s Hospital)
Qualifications:
MBBS, Grad Dip Mental Health Sc, FRACP, PhD
Biography:
Dr. Julia Charlton received her medical degree at Monash University in Australia and completed her pediatric and neonatal fellowship training through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She completed a Graduate Diploma in Infant and Parent Mental Health then a PhD at the University of Melbourne before commencing as a Neonatologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne where she led the Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-up Program. Her research has focussed on brain injury and neurodevelopment in babies born with congenital anomalies and is evolving to explore the optimization of risk-benefit balance of analgesia and sedation in the NICU. She commenced as NICU Medical Director at BC Women’s Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in late 2022.