{"id":4753,"date":"2022-09-13T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:59:11","slug":"distinguished-service-in-paediatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2022\/09\/13\/distinguished-service-in-paediatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished service in paediatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congratulations to Associate Professor Jill Sewell and Associate Professor Gehan Roberts for being awarded life membership of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nbpsa.org\/about\/life-members\">Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australia<\/a> (NBPSA). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NBPSA awards Life Membership to select members in \u201crecognition of distinguished service to society and to neurodevelopmental and behavioural paediatrics generally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Jill Sewell and Associate Professor Prof Gehan Roberts were presented with their Life Membership alongside other members at the NBPSA Annual Conference 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/about\/people\/Associate_Professor_Jill_Sewell\/\">Assoc. Prof Sewell<\/a> is a consultant paediatrician at the Centre for Community Child Health, and Chair of the Quality and Safety Executive Council for Safer Care Victoria. Jill was previously the Centre\u2019s Deputy Director and recently completed a 5-year term as Clinical Director of the Children&#8217;s Bioethics Centre. Jill has been responsible for the Centre\u2019s developmental and behavioural specialty clinics, including overseeing the practicing consultant paediatricians and advanced trainees in paediatrics, and developed the Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health over many years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/about\/people\/Associate_Professor_Gehan_Roberts\/\">Assoc. Prof Roberts<\/a> is a developmental-behavioural paediatrician and holds appointments with The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, Centre for Community Child Health, the Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute, and theUniversity of Melbourne. Gehan coordinates the Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health, the largest training program of its type in Australia. Gehan is an Associate Director (Clinical Services) at the Centre, and is engaged in research, clinical supervision and teaching at both an undergraduate and post-graduate level. Gehan is also the immediate past president of NBPSA (2016-2020).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assoc. Prof Jill Sewell and Assoc. Prof Gehan Roberts are awarded life membership of NBPSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":4764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}