Dr Michelle Caroline Fernandes
OMPHI International Research Fellow
Michelle graduated in medicine from St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India in 2008. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford in 2011. Michelle was awarded the Clarendon Fund Scholarship, the Exeter Kokil Pathak Scholarship and the Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarships in 2008 and 2010. She was named a Donald J Cohen Fellow by the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She received the TATA Idea Idol 2012 award and the OBN Best Emerging Medtech award for her innovative work in technology. Michelle has worked in a range of clinical settings in general medicine, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology.
Michelle’s research interests lie in the fields of prenatal programming, foetal development and mental health in low and middle income countries. Her doctoral thesis focussed on the influence of prenatal depression on foetal and infant development. The fieldwork for this study was carried out in rural India making it the first of its kind from the developing world. Her other research involves the measurement of foetal neurodevelopmental maturity using foetal heart rate, and the influence of socio-economic adversity on infant behaviour.
Michelle is currently working as an International Research Fellow at the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute and the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is responsible for devising a neurodevelopmental assessment protocol for children at two years, assessing a wide range of neurodevelopmental outcomes including cognition, language, motor development, behaviour, sleep, vision and auditory processing. She co-ordinates the activities of the Infant Development Group for the INTERGROWTH-21st Project and the INTERBIO-21st Study.
Michelle is also the Junior Dean of Exeter College, Oxford; a Program Associate at Microclinics International and on the research board of the Oxford-Wikipedia Study.
Michelle’s research interests lie in the fields of prenatal programming, foetal development and mental health in low and middle income countries. Her doctoral thesis focussed on the influence of prenatal depression on foetal and infant development. The fieldwork for this study was carried out in rural India making it the first of its kind from the developing world. Her other research involves the measurement of foetal neurodevelopmental maturity using foetal heart rate, and the influence of socio-economic adversity on infant behaviour.
Michelle is currently working as an International Research Fellow at the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute and the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is responsible for devising a neurodevelopmental assessment protocol for children at two years, assessing a wide range of neurodevelopmental outcomes including cognition, language, motor development, behaviour, sleep, vision and auditory processing. She co-ordinates the activities of the Infant Development Group for the INTERGROWTH-21st Project and the INTERBIO-21st Study.
Michelle is also the Junior Dean of Exeter College, Oxford; a Program Associate at Microclinics International and on the research board of the Oxford-Wikipedia Study.
Contact:
E: michelle.fernandes@obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1865 222396
T: +44 (0) 1865 222396
