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PhD Students

Read about the students currently undertaking their PhD as a part of the Children's Diabetes Centre.

Dr Jacqueline Curran

BSc, MBChB, FRACP

Dr Curran is a paediatric endocrinologist and research fellow at Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) and a senior lecturer in paediatrics at Notre Dame University.

Dr Curran studied pre-clinical medicine at The University of St Andrews, Scotland and undertook her clinical studies through Manchester University, England. She trained in paediatrics at The Women's and Children's Hospital Adelaide and Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), Perth. In addition to her paediatric endocrinology training at PMH, she has undertaken a fellowship in type 2 diabetes in indigenous youth at the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Canada.

Dr Curran is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Western Australia, studying the effect of a novel treatment for weight loss in obese adolescents.  

Publications:

Bell LM, Curran JA, Byrne s, Roby H, Suriano K, Jones TW, Davis EA. High Incidence of obesity co-morbidities in young children: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2011 Dec;47(12):911-7.

Curran J, Hayward J, Sellers E, Dean H. Severe vulvovaginitis as a presenting problem of type 2 diabetes in adolescent girls:a case series. Pediatrics. 2011 Apr;127(4):1081-5

Suriano K, Curran J, Byrne SM, Jones TW, Davis EA. Fatness, fitness, and cardiovascular risk in young children. J Pediatrics. 2010 Oct; 157 (4):552-8.