Ju-Lee Oei

Dr Ju-Lee Oei is a Neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, a Conjoint Professor at UNSW Sydney, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. She also serves as a Visiting Professor to the University of Malaya and the University of China. Her clinical expertise focuses on high-risk infants, including those requiring neonatal intensive care, children of mothers with drug-use disorders, and resuscitation of extremely preterm infants.

• Education:
  • MBBS, UNSW (1990)
  • MD, UNSW (2010)
  • Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2000)

Her research spans oxygen use in neonatal resuscitation, maternal substance use and neonatal outcomes, epidemiology of NICU admissions, and global neonatal health. She leads international collaborations with over 20 universities across 10 countries, including perinatal data linkage and resuscitation research groups that influence national/international guidelines.

Dr Oei supervises 4 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate students with a 0.8 clinical workload. She is the Chief Investigator on the NHMRC-funded TORPIDO 2 Study and has secured over $3 million in competitive grants. Her work includes developing state/national guidelines for neonatal abstinence syndrome and contributing to breastfeeding guidelines under maternal drug use.