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.