Fiona Stanley is the founding Director of the Telethon Kids Institute (formerly the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research), established in Perth in 1990. She is a Professor in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia, and the chair of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, a national collaboration of researchers, policy makers and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines. She studied medicine at the University of Western Australia and practised in hospitals for two years before going to the United Kingdom and USA for further training. In 2004, Professor Stanley was honoured as a “National Living Treasure” by the National Trust. She was named Australian of the Year in 2003. She is the UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.
