The EMOG Team

Shelley is a consultant in maternal fetal medicine at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital. She teaches undergraduate medical and midwifery trainees, postgraduate obstetric trainees, and maternal fetal medicine specialist trainees through the Royal Women’s Hospital, the Epworth Freemasons Hospital and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Shelley is actively involved in research and ongoing education and maintains an up-to-date evidence based practice.

Her areas of interest include:

• maternal medical disorders, including diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune disorders and cardiac disease
• multiple pregnancy
• problems in past pregnancies
• fetal problems including growth restriction, fetal developmental abnormalities and isoimmunisation
• vaginal birth after caesearean section
• pre-pregnancy consultations.

Outside work, Shelley likes to spend time with her family, read, play the cello and sometimes fit in some exercise.

You will usually have two formal antenatal visits with Prue (each lasting around 40–60 minutes), including an antenatal check. Prue will focus on the physical and emotional side of your pregnancy. You can explore many topics at these visits, including your pregnancy and birth expectations, the type of birth that you would prefer, and how you can prepare for it. Prue can address many other concerns and help reduce your anxiety. Prue can also answer your questions informally at other times throughout your pregnancy and postnatal period.

Prue’s work in hospitals with women during birth and in the postnatal period fuelled her passion for antenatal education. Prue developed a unique educational birthing workshop that promotes active birth. She is an enthusiastic teacher of the EMOG birthing workshop, which is informative, interactive and fun.

Prue is married and has a son, Max. As one of six children herself, she loves being part of a large family and enjoys spending her weekends and holidays with her family and friends.

Briony also works as a haematologist and obstetric medicine physician across other major Melbourne metropolitan hospitals including the Royal Women’s, Box Hill and Sunshine hospitals. She is involved in teaching haematology and obstetric medicine to physician, pathology and obstetric trainees, obstetricians, gynaecologists and midwives.

She is published in peer-reviewed journals, is actively involved in research and presents at conferences both nationally and internationally.

Her areas of interest include:

• Maternal medical disorders, including diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune disorders and cardiac disease
• Thrombosis in pregnancy/IVF
• Bleeding disorders in pregnancy
• Pre-pregnancy counselling

When she is not working, Briony likes to spend time with her family, go to the theatre and when weather permits scuba dive.

John obtained his primary medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Melbourne in 1986. He obtained his specialist obstetric and gynaecology qualification in 2002 (FRANZCOG). He has extensive experience, practising exclusively in this field for over 20 years.

Appointments can be made by calling EMOG on 9416 1205.

In her spare time, Emily likes to spend time with her family.

In her spare time she will still often be found nursing or spending time with her friends, family or husband and their 3 fur-kids.

When Tomasia is not busy keeping the practice running like a well oiled machine, she loves spending time with her family, friends and her beautiful dog Paris.