The role of The Still Aware Clinical Advisory Board is to ensure the information relied on through Still Aware is compiled from the most current and up to date, evidence and research based data and publications. The clinicians and professionals volunteering their time are considered experts in their field and their guidance to the Still Aware Board is greatly appreciated and of integral importance to our cause. At Still Aware our remit is explicitly to raise awareness and provide education based on stillbirth research. The Still Aware Clinical Advisory Board is a prenatal health advisory platform specifically aligned with delivery of accurate, validated information, with stillbirth prevention top of mind. This platform enables our not-for-profit charity to ensure we continue to gather international reports, publications, data and care provisions offered, and those which should be offered, to aid delivery to expectant families and clinicians Australia wide. Together with reporting on suggested advice of health care provisions to the Australian federal and local governments.
After 10 years as Associate Professor in Maternal – Fetal Medicine at the Free University in Amsterdam, Gus migrated to Adelaide. He is the Clinical Director of the Women and Children’s Division of the Northern Adelaide Health Service (Lyell McEwin Hospital and Modbury Hospital), and Professor in Obstetrics & Gynaecology with The University of Adelaide, Northern Campus. His academic PhD Thesis Erasmus entitled ‘Prediction and Prevention of 
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertensive Disorders. A Clinical and Pathophysiologic Study’; included the world’s first prospective RCT on low-dose Aspirin in the prevention of preeclampsia. His areas of specific interest align firmly with the Still Aware mission of ending preventable stillbirth and adverse pregnancy outcome. Gus has been highly successful in translating basic science progress into preventative strategies that really changed clinical obstetrics. His work is widely published with 231 publications to his name.
Gus is one of the founders of the SCOPE group with his Adelaide collaborators has successfully completed the clinical part of the Australian contribution to the global SCOPE study; the largest ever program aimed at developing robust clinically useful predictors for preeclampsia, preterm labour and intra-uterine growth restriction. His clinical work involves maternal-fetal medicine and obstetric medicine. He is nationally and internationally recognised as one of the leading experts in the fields of preeclampsia and thrombophilias and adverse pregnancy outcome. He has been instrumental in transforming the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Lyell McEwin Hospital from a district hospital maternity service into what is now recognised as one of the most innovating and evidence based departments in South Australia with the largest number of training medical officers.
Based in the United Kingdom, Jane is the Chief Executive of Tommys.org. Since joining the team in 2000, Jane’s efforts have seen the charity develop from funding 1 research centre to 4 research centres and has established an award winning pregnancy information service for parents. Through her role she advises various Department of Health groups on antenatal care and represents the views of parents. She is also involved on the steering groups of many research studies ensuring that results are widely disseminated to parents. Jane helps many parents to get the care they need.
An experienced Clinical Midwifery Consultant, Helen works with the NSW Pregnancy and newborn Services Network (PSN) and The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. She is well versed and experience in perinatal matters and educates on maternity crisis management through training of clinicians. She was instrumental in forging a network for professionals in the midwifery sector, allowing for open lines of communication; The Maternity Support Network (MSN), provides leadership and support to achieve high quality of maternity services to women.
A senior Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics at Manchester University, Dr Heazell shares his time equally between clinical practice and research along with teaching within the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, School of Biomedicine. His passion for stillbirth research and obstetric care stems, in part, from his personal understanding, after his son Jack was stillborn in 2001. Alex is Clinical Director of the Tommy’s 
Stillbirth Research Centre and leads the stillbirth research theme at the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, which includes projects to understand the reasons for stillbirth, and prevention of perinatal mortality and improving care for parents whose babies die before or shortly after birth. Alex operates Rainbow Clinic, a specialist clinical service or parents who have experienced a stillbirth in a previous pregnancy. This is supported jointly by Tommy’s and Central Manchester University Foundation Hospitals NHS Trust.
Dr Heazell is the Chair of The International Stillbirth Association (ISA) board, and works with the Scientific Advisory Committee within ISA to improve information for parents and direct effective research. He has been involved in the Confidential Enquiry into Perinatal Deaths in Cumbria (2009-2010) and has worked closely with Sands and the Human Tissue Authority to develop a national consent form package for post-mortem after perinatal death, both of which translated research findings into clinical practice. Additionally he volunteers his time as Patron & Medical Advisor to UK charity Kicks Count and is part of the team of Medical Advisors to US based Star Legacy Foundation.
Billie is a mother of five and practising midwife based in Wellington, New Zealand. Since first becoming a
Registered Midwife in 1998, Billie has worked in the community as a case-loading midwife attending births at home and in hospital and as a staff midwife in tertiary and secondary care hospitals in the Lower North Island. Billie worked as a midwife educator 10 years, including taking on the role as local co-ordinator for the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) and leading local reviews of cases of poor perinatal outcome. It was this experience that led Billie to pursue research in maternal perception of fetal movements, first as part of a master’s degree and later in a PhD. Billie’s research interests centre around stillbirth prevention and include; fetal development, fetal growth, maternal obesity, and in particular fetal movements. She is currently completing a PhD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland.
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