Dr Janice Fletcher
MB, BS (Hons), FRACP, MD, BSc, Clinical Genetics (HGSA), Biochemical Genetics
HGSA), FRCPA (genetics)

Council Representative for Women in Medicine

After a career in paediatrics and genetics working in inborn errors of metabolism, Dr Janice Fletcher has moved her focus to administration and genetic pathology. She trained primarily in Sydney, at the Prince of Wales Children's Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, and was a genetics fellow at the Murdoch Institute, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, where she obtained her MD.

Dr Fletcher was the Head of the Metabolic Unit at the Women's and Children's Hospital from 1995 to 2008. In 1996, she set up Australia's first adult metabolic clinic at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, with Dr Ian Chapman. In 2001 she was appointed Acting Head of Chemical Pathology at the Women's and Children's Hospital and, in 2003, Deputy Director of Genetic Medicine at the Women's and Children's Hospital. In 2008 she was appointed as Regional Medical Director of the Children's Youth and Women's Health Service.

She has been on the National Examining Panel for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians since 2004, and is a former President of the Australasian Society for Inborn Errors of Metabolism and the corresponding member for the Australia for the Society for Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism. She is also a member of the Clinical Senate

Her particular interests include newborn screening, quality outcomes in inborn errors of metabolism, safety and quality, postgraduate medical training, and the interface between the laboratory and the clinician. Her passions outside of medicine include golf, travel and cooking.