Amanda Poprzeczny

Amanda Poprzeczny

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Amanda Poprzeczny is an obstetrician and maternal fetal medicine specialist at the Women's and Children's Hospital and a clinical academic at the University of Adelaide. She is interested in how maternal health before and during pregnancy impacts pregnancy outcomes and preterm birth. She works within the multi-disciplinary Lifelong Health Research Group working with Professor Jodie Dodd. 

Dr Poprzeczny is a passionate and committed advocate of evidence based medicine, and is particularly interested in ensuring that clinical research is rigorously appraised and appropriately translated into clinical practice. She works in perinatal clinical trials that answer important day to day questions in clinical practice, to ensure risks and benefits of interventions are rigorously appraised and appropriately implemented. 

Dr Poprzeczny is chief investigator on multiple category 1 grants, investigating the impact of interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes for women with overweight or obesity prior to pregnancy and optimising interventions for women at risk of preterm birth. 

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2022 - ongoing Senior Lecturer The University of Adelaide
    2019 - ongoing Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow Women's and Children's Hospital

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2019 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Australia Fellow, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery
    The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Hons)
    The University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Medicine

  • Research Interests
    Clinical Trials Foetal Development and Medicine Maternal Health Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pregnancy and Birth
2022-2027

(MRFF ID 2015329)

Dodd JM, Poprzeczny A, Keir A, Louise J, O'Brien C, Henry A, Said J, Briley A, Murphy K, McDonald S 

The single dose of antenatal corticosteroids (SNACS) randomised trial for women at risk for preterm birth.

 $3,025,899
2021-2026

(MRFF ID 1199789)

Dodd JM, Poprzeczny A, Louise J, Keir A, Pham C, Laws R, Briley A, Turnbull D, Campbell K

The Begin Better Randomised trial

 $2,790,917
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