Dr Koert de Waal
Neonatology, John Hunter Children's Hospital
Dr Koert de Waal was born in the Netherlands. His training as a paediatrician and neonatologist was conducted in his home country and the Dutch Caribbean with postdoctoral training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney to master functional echocardiography. His interest is in neonatal haemodynamics, especially heart lung interactions. He completed a PhD in central blood flow measurements at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Dr de Waal currently works as a consultant at John Hunter Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, NSW where he continues his research in neonatal haemodynamics and novel echocardiography techniques.
Neonatal haemodynamics research
Dr Koert de Waal’s work focuses on neonatal haemodynamics, heart–lung interactions and echocardiographic approaches to understanding blood flow in newborn infants. Research involving preterm and critically ill babies demands particularly careful study design, specialist measurement and close attention to consent and governance.
National collaboration can help neonatal investigators compare methods, recruit across centres and build evidence from populations that may be too small for a single hospital study. PTNA provides a network context for those conversations alongside expertise in trial design, data management and research operations.
See the complete PTNA Committee, the paediatric ethics and governance resources, and the clinical epidemiology and biostatistics resource.