Dr Joanne Colvin is a neonatal specialist who treats patients at St John of God Subiaco Hospital.
Dr Colvin completed her undergraduate medical degree at the University of Western Australia, and was awarded the prestigious Fred Johnston Memorial Prize and Australian Medical Association prize as the student who achieved the highest results in the final year. She completed her internship at Royal Perth Hospital in 1998, then commenced training in paediatrics and neonatology at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women.
In 2000 Dr Colvin earned a Diploma of Child Health. In 2003 she was awarded a Telethon Research Fellowship. For several years Dr Colvin was a Senior Neonatology and Transport Registrar with the Western Australian Neonatal Transport Service (WANTS), which involved travelling throughout Western Australia with the Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS), retrieving sick babies from rural and remote areas to bring them back to Perth for treatment.
In 2006, Dr Colvin began consultancy at St John of God Subiaco Hospital as a neonatal paediatrician and she has been Director of Neonatal Paediatrics at the Hospital since 2010.
Dr Colvin has special interests in neonatal resuscitation and neonatal transport, and has published clinical research papers in these fields. Dr Colvin teaches medical students as the Coordinator of Neonatal Medicine for the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle.