Jane Alsweiler

Senior Lecturer
Department of Paediatrics
Liggins Institute (Honorary)
The University of Auckland
MBChB, Dip Paediatrics, FRACP (Paediatrics), PhD (Paediatrics)

Contact details

Phone: +64 9 379 7440 ext 25367
Email: j.alsweiler@auckland.ac.nz

Research interests

• Neonatal glucose metabolism
• Neonatal growth

Dr Jane Alsweiler is a senior lecturer at The University of Auckland. She completed her PhD at the Liggins Institute undertaking clinical and experimental research into the management and long-term consequences of high blood glucose concentrations in preterm babies. The study aimed to provide an evidence-based approach to a problem that commonly affects babies born very preterm.

• Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Clinical Trials (IMPACT) network
• Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ)
• Perinatal Society of New Zealand
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Australian Research Centre for Health of Women and Babies, University of Adelaide

• Alsweiler JM, Harding JE, Bloomfield FH.  The effect of neonatal hyperglycaemia in preterm lambs on prepubertal pancreatic function. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: 1; S201, 2009.
• Alsweiler JM, Harding JE, Bloomfield FH.  Preterm birth in lambs increases insulin sensitivity at 4 months of age, but increased growth velocity in preterm lambs is associated with insulin resistance.  Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 1: S202, 2009.
• Alsweiler JM, Harding JE, Bloomfield FH.  A randomised controlled trial of tight glycaemic control in hyperglycaemic VLBW preterm babies.  Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 45: A18, 2009.
• Alsweiler JM, Kuschel CA, Bloomfield FH. Survey of the management of neonatal hyperglycaemia in Australasia. J Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 43 (9), 632–635, 2007.

• Auckland Medical Research Foundation
• Lotteries Commission
• Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust