Jodie Dodd

Biography

Professor Jodie Dodd is an obstetrician, maternal fetal medicine specialist and Practitioner Fellow at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She is also a clinical researcher at the University of Adelaide. She leads a multi-disciplinary research group of 15 staff and students, and is an international authority on obesity during pregnancy and early life approaches to obesity prevention. Professor Dodd's research is driven to ensure that care for women and their infant’s is effective, and that treatment benefits outweigh harms. Randomised trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses remain the gold standard research methodology for establishing the effects of different forms of care. Professor Dodd was the lead investigator for the LIMIT Randomised Controlled Trial, involving 2,212 pregnant overweight or obesity women. The trial was investigating a dietary and lifestyle intervention to reduce the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Current projects include a randomised controlled trial evaluating the role of metformin in pregnancy as an adjunct to dietary intervention for women with overweight or obesity, and a dietary intervention for women of normal BMI as a strategy to prevent postpartum weight retention. Professor Dodd currently holds a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship, and prior to that a Neil Hamilton Fairley Fellowship, which enabled post-doctoral work to be undertaken through the University of Toronto, Canada. She is editor for the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and past Chair of the South Australian Maternal and Neonatal Clinical Network.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc