A/Prof Helen Barrett

Sydney Endocrinologist / Obstetric Physician

BSc(hons) MBBS(hons) FRACP MHA PhD

A/Prof Helen Barrett is an Endocrinologist/Obstetric Physician with special interest in obstetric endocrinology, maternal & placental metabolism, diabetes and pre-eclampsia. Also a Conjoint Associate Professor at the The Royal Hospital for Women Clinical School, UNSW Medicine.

A/Prof Helen Barrett has recently moved to Sydney in March 2022, and is delighted to be joining the team at Sydney Endocrinology. Helen has also joined the Obstetric Medicine team at the Royal Hospital for Women, and the Endocrinology team at Prince of Wales Hospital. She completed training as a physician in Obstetric Medicine and Endocrinology in 2010 and has spent the last ten years as a consultant physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Mater Health in Brisbane – two of the largest tertiary obstetric hospitals in Australia – caring for women with high-risk complex medical problems in pregnancy.

She was also Director of Endocrinology at the Mater in Brisbane and has a particular interest in type 1 diabetes, diabetes technology and care of the young adult (16-25yrs). 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. Currently the President of the Society for Obstetric Medicine Australia​ New Zealand she has also been a Board member of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society.

Helen has a particular research interest in maternal and placental metabolism in high-risk pregnancy, relating to diabetes and pre-eclampsia and has more than 70 publications, including being an author on National Clinical Guidelines from SOMANZ and ADIPS.

Urgent appointments for Gestational Diabetes patients can usually be accommodated. Please call our reception team 0291579095

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