Robyn Rodwell | |
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Alma mater | Griffith University (PhD, 1992)[1] |
Occupation | medical scientist (retired) |
Known for | working in the haematology field for fifty years and helping establish the Queensland Cord Blood Bank |
Awards | Queensland Great (2009)[2] |
Robyn Lynette Rodwell is an Australian retired medical scientist.[3]
Rodwell is best known for her work in the haematology field.[3][4][5] Spanning a period of fifty years, her career commenced when she became a cadet medical scientist at the haematology blood bank at Brisbane's Mater Hospital.[3]
After gaining a fellowship in haematology in 1982, Rodwell was appointed as the hospital's chief scientist of haematology.[3]
In 1997, Rodwell was tasked with establishing the Queensland Cord Blood Bank (QCBB) at the Mater Mother's Hospital.[3] Upon its inception, Rodwell was appointed as the QCBB's scientific director, becoming director in 2008.[3]
She is also credited with establishing what became known as the "Sepsis Score" in blood counts which has proved to assist in predicting sepsis infections in newborn babies.[6] This work was the subject of her doctoral thesis in which she explored the role of laboratory investigations, diagnosis, monitoring and therapy of neonatal sepsis.[1]
Rodwell has also been an adjunct associate professor at the School of Natural Sciences at Griffith University and at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology.[3]
In 2009, Rodwell was named as a Queensland Great.[2][7] Rodwell retired in 2019.[3][6]