Associate Professor Michael Beckmann
Associate Professor Mike Beckmann is Director of Mothers Babies and Women’s
Health at Mater. As well as Clinical Stream Leader, he is an active
clinician and researcher. His major research focus is induction of labour. His
PhD thesis was on the topic of ‘Induction of Labour using Prostaglandin’ and he
recently led a national multi-centre trial comparing induction of labour as an
inpatient and an outpatient. He has authored more than 60 research
publications, and is co-supervising several PhD students in the areas of
surgical simulation, team dynamics, consumer information-sharing, and the
health economics of surgical site infection.