ProfessorPeter Vuillermin

Professor Peter Vuillermin is a general paediatrician with an interest in the
early life origins of immune related disorders in the modern environment.
Peter is the Director of Research at Barwon Health, and leads various
initiatives to integrate research into routine clinical care. He is co-lead
investigator on the Barwon Infant Study, which is a population-derived
Australian birth cohort study (n=1074) incorporating longitudinal assembly of
uniquely detailed array of biological samples in combination with
environmental and clinical data. Peter has a particular interest in the
relationship between the modern environment and diet, the microbiome and its
metabolites, and the early life origins of immune dysregulation, allergic
disease and asthma. Peter co-Chairs the Children's Inpatient Research
Collaboration of Australia and New Zealand (CIRCAN), which aims to improve the
treatment of children in hospital via robust collaborative research.