A/Prof Helen Barrett is an Endocrinologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician. She is Director of Obstetric Medicine at The Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick (RHW) and a Senior Staff Specialist in Obstetric Medicine and Endocrinology at RHW and Prince of Wales Hospital. She is a conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Medicine and the immediate Past President of the Society of Obstetric Medicine Australia New Zealand. Helen is a clinician researcher and completed her PhD examining the role of lipids in diabetes in pregnancy in 2014 at the University of Queensland.  Helen has a particular research interest in maternal and placental metabolism in high-risk pregnancy, relating to diabetes and pre-eclampsia.