Assoc./Prof. Daniel Rolnik

Associate Professor Daniel Rolnik

MD, MSc, PhD, MPH, FRANZCOG, Diploma in Fetal Medicine (Fetal Medicine Foundation, UK)

Associate Professor Daniel Rolnik is a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist with subspecialty training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine whose particular interests are prenatal diagnosis and early prediction and prevention of pregnancy complications. He is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine consultant and the Head of the Perinatal Care Centre at Monash Medical Centre, an Associate Professor at Monash University, and a Sonologist at Monash Ultrasound for Women. He is also a member of the Victorian Fetal Therapy Service.

Daniel is also an auditor of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF, UK) nuchal translucency screening program and a member of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) Nuchal Translucency Ultrasound Education and Monitoring Program.

Daniel has been involved in teaching of medical students, Obstetrics and Gynaecology trainees, and sonographers, and has published widely in the field of Prenatal Diagnosis, particularly on the detection of fetal abnormalities, cell-free DNA (NIPT) screening and prediction and prevention of preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. He is the first author of the landmark European ASPRE trial, which demonstrated the beneficial effects of aspirin in the prevention of preeclampsia in women at increased risk.