Lex William Doyle is an Australian

paediatrician Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

, researcher and academic, best known for his widely published

neonatal An infant or baby is the very young offspring of human beings. ''Infant'' (from the Latin word ''infans'', meaning 'unable to speak' or 'speechless') is a formal or specialised synonym for the common term ''baby''. The terms may also be used t ...

research into positive long-term outcomes for

premature babies Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks. Extreme preterm is less than 28 weeks, very early preterm birth is between ...

.Award ID: 2004661
Australian Honours Search Database, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

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. Accessed 19 June 2019.Key staff: Lex William Doyle, MD BS MSc FRACP

Royal Women's Hospital The Royal Women's Hospital, located in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, is Australia's oldest specialist women's hospital. It offers a full range of services in maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care, women's cancers and women's health. It als ...

. Accessed 19 June 2019. He is currently the head of clinical research development at the

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...

, having been a consultant neonatal paediatrician at the hospital from 1983 until 2006. Since 2003, Doyle has been a professor of neonatal paediatrics at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb n ...

, having been with the university since 1978, teaching and developing curriculum for the study of neonatal medicine. In the 1980s, he helped establish the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group. Doyle was also the head of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute's Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine from 2009 until 2018. Working exclusively in neonatal paediatrics for much of his career, Doyle regularly speaks in the media about issues relating to premature births. In May 2019, Doyle was awarded the Howard Williams Medal by the

Royal Australasian College of Physicians The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is a not-for-profit professional organisation responsible for training and educating physicians and paediatricians across Australia and New Zealand. The RACP is responsible for training both ...

and in June 2019 was appointed as an

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in the

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.(27 May 2019
Professor Lex Doyle honoured for outstanding contribution to paediatrics
Royal Women's Hospital. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

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