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Mary-Ann Davey |
RN, RM, DipAppSc, BEd, Postgrad Diploma Sociology, DrPubHealth, MEpi |
Senior Research Fellow |
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| Email: M.Davey@latrobe.edu.au |
| Telephone: +61 3 8341 8537 |
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Mary-Ann came to health research from senior clinical roles in nursing, midwifery, and maternal and child health. She worked as a senior research officer at the Royal Children's Hospital Research Institute (now Murdoch) from 1993-99, primarily as an investigator on community-based infant vaccine trials. She has worked at MCHR since 1999 on a number of projects including COSMOS, the 2000 Survey of Recent Mothers, Early Births and PinC. She currently fulfils an epidemiology/biostatistics support role at the centre in addition to pursuing her own research interests. Mary-Ann also works part-time as an epidemiologist at the Victorian Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity. |
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| MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS |
Pregnancy and birth, intrapartum interventions, particularly their short and long term consequences on mothers and children, breastfeeding. |
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| CURRENT PROJECTS |
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Birth outcomes and maternal and neonatal morbidity following induction and augmentation of labour in uncomplicated first births |
| Team: |
Mary-Ann Davey, Professor Judith Lumley (Supervisor), Professor James King (Associate supervisor) |
| Funding: |
Australian Postgraduate Award (2002-2004) |
| Status: |
Doctoral thesis completed and passed. Presented at international and national conferences. Papers in preparation |
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COSMOS (randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery vs. standard care) |
| Team: |
Helen McLachlan, Della Forster, Mary-Ann Davey, Judith Lumley, Tanya Farrell, Jeremy Oats, Lisa Gold |
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NHMRC |
| Status: |
Data collection completed; analysis underway |
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WAVE (evaluation of changes to maternity care at Barwon Health) |
| Team: |
Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Mary-Ann Davey, Jane Morrow, Michelle Newton, Therese Cotter |
| Funding: |
Department of Health |
| Status: |
Data collection completed; analysis underway; final report in preparation |
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Acupuncture to reduce formal induction of labour for post-maturity in uncomplicated first births |
| Team: |
Mary-Ann Davey, Caroline Smith (University of Western Sydney) |
| Funding: |
Faculty Support Grant |
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Ethics application in progress |
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Perinatal outcomes for women born in Vietnam |
| Team: |
Rhonda Small, Mary-Ann Davey, Paul Agius |
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None |
| Status: |
Data analysis underway |
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| PUBLICATIONS (Selected) |
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| Articles in refereed journals |
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Carolan M, Davey M-A, Kealy M, Biro MA. A population based cross-sectional study comparing older mothers with younger mothers in Victoria, Australia. Birth Published on-line 23 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00439.x
Davey M-A, Watson LF, Rayner J, Rowlands S. Risk scoring systems for predicting preterm birth with the aim of reducing associated adverse outcomes. Updated protocol for Cochrane Review, September 2010.
Watson LF, Davey M-A, Biro MA, King JF (2009). Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia [comment] Medical Journal of Australia. 190(9):519
Rayner, J.-A., Forster, D., McLachlan, H., Yelland, J., & Davey, M.-A. (2008). A state-wide review of hospital postnatal care in Victoria, Australia: The views and experiences of midwives. Midwifery, 24(3), 310-320.
McLachlan HL, Forster DA, Davey M-A, Lumley J, Farrell T, Oats JJN, Gold L, Waldenstrom U, Albers L and Biro MA. (2008) COSMOS: COmparing Standard Maternity care with One-to-one midwifery Support: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 8:35.
Davey M.-A, & King J. F. (2008). Perinatal Outcomes in Birth Centers. Birth, 35(1), 85-86 (Letter)
Watson L, Brown S, Davey M-A. Use of periconceptional folic acid supplements in Victoria and New South Wales , Australia . Aust N Z J Public Health, 2006; 30(1):42-9.
Davey M-A, Brown S, Bruinsma F. What is it about antenatal continuity of caregiver that matters to women? Birth, 2005;32:4:262-71
Brown SJ . Davey MA. Bruinsma FJ. Women's views and experiences of postnatal hospital care in the Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000. Midwifery, 2005; 21(2):109-26.
Nolan T, Hogg G, Darcy M-A , Skeljo M, Carlin J, Boslego J A combined liquid Hib (PRP-OMP), hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and whole-cell pertussis vaccine: controlled studies of immunogenicity and reactogenicity. Vaccine , 2001;19: 2127-2137.
Nolan T, Hogg G, Darcy M-A , Varigos J, McEwen J. Primary course immunogenicity and reactogenicity of a new DTPw (diphtheria-tetanus-whole cell pertussis) vaccine (DTPw). J Paediatr Child Health , 1997; 33(5):413-7.
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| Submitted |
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Davey M-A, Watson LF, Rayner J, Rowlands S. Risk scoring systems for predicting preterm birth with the aim of reducing associated adverse outcomes. Systematic Review, Cochrane Library, submitted Feb 2011.
Bandyopadhyay M, Small R, Davey M-A, Oats JJN, Forster D, Aylward A. Lived experience of gestational diabetes among South Asian immigrant women in Victoria. Submitted to ANZJOG July 2010. |
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| SELECTED REPORTS |
Davey M-A. Hospital Profiles of Maternal and Perinatal Care in 2007. (individualised reports for approximately 70 hospitals in Victoria providing maternity care). January 2009
Davey M-A, Taylor O, Oats JJN, Riley M. Births in Victoria 2005 and 2006, Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity, Victorian Statewide Quality Branch, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, December 2008.
Darcy M-A , Brown S, Bruinsma F, Lumley J. Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers: Having a baby in metropolitan and rural Victoria . Report to Division of Acute Health, Victorian Department of Human Services, June 2001.
Darcy M-A , Brown S, Bruinsma F. Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers: Continuity of care: does it make a difference to women's views and experiences of care? (Summary report distributed to Victorian maternity hospitals.) September 2001. |
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RECENT CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS |
Davey M-A, Lumley J, King JF. Method of birth after induction or augmentation of labour in uncomplicated first births. Oral presentation at Normal Labour and Birth Research conference, Vancouver, June 2010.
Davey M-A, Teale G, Veitch V. The influence of patterns of transfer on standardised perinatal mortality ratios. Oral presentation at Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Fourteenth Annual Congress, Wellington, March 2010. J Paediatrics and Child Health:46(S1)p17
Donath S, Davey M-A, Amir L. Does caesarean delivery and/or epidural during labour influence the duration of breastfeeding?. Oral presentation at Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Fourteenth Annual Congress, Wellington, March 2010. J Paediatrics and Child Health:46(S1)p20
Davey M-A, Oats JJN. Placental complications in subsequent pregnancies following caesarean section: a dose response? Oral presentation at Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Thirteenth Annual Congress, Darwin, April 2009
Davey M-A, Lumley J, King J. Postpartum haemorrhage and shoulder dystocia in induced and augmented labour. Oral presentation at Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Twelfth Annual Congress, Gold Coast, March 2008
Davey M-A. Does epidural analgesia affect the baby’s ability to breastfeed? Oral presentation at annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Maternal and Perinatal Clinical Trials network. Gold Coast, April 2008
Davey MA, King JF, Lumley J, Veitch V. Making sense of the 'standard primipara'. The Joint Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Epidemiological Association and the International Epidemiological Association Western Pacific Region, Hobart, August 2007, p98
Davey MA, Lumley J, King JF. Induction and augmentation of labour and short-term maternal morbidity. Australian College of Midwives 15th National Conference, Canberra, September 2007, p29
Davey MA, Sloan ML, King JF, Lumley J. Accuracy of routinely collected maternal & perinatal data in Victoria. Australian College of Midwives 15th National Conference, Canberra, September 2007, p106 |
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