Professor Ryan Hodges

My private practice in The Pregnancy Pod is a small boutique practice that I designed to offer personal, highly expert care whether you or your baby (or babies!) are considered at the highest risk or are perfectly well and wanting highly expert, low intervention pregnancy care. I practice in an environment that is positive, friendly, and sensitive to your feelings and focused on your experience. I achieve this through listening, mindful attention and helping you create a personalised experience with the very best expertise. I truly do have the best job in the world. I am committed to working with women and families to achieve the richest experience and brightest start to life possible for those who I care for, the community I serve, and I strive to leave a legacy with a global impact. In addition to my private practice at The Pregnancy Pod, I am privileged to serve as Director of Women’s & Newborn Program and Director of Maternity Services for Monash Health, Victoria’s largest health care and maternity provider. I lead a remarkable and inspiring team to provide maternity care for 10 000 babies every year (1 in 8 Victorians!) across a network of hospitals, caring for some of the highest risk pregnancies in Victoria, providing the largest neonatal intensive care and special care nursery service in Monash Children’s Hospital, and extensive gynaecology services including women’s cancer services. I am proud to lead an innovative world-class service for Victoria. I continue to practice in the maternal fetal medicine high risk pregnancy service, where I was former director. I am a member of Monash Health Executive and Clinical Council for hospital quality and safety and patient experience. Beyond my local community, I am the Victorian maternity and newborn representative to the Clinical Lead Expert Group (CLEG) advising the Department of Health on maternity and newborn care for the COVID-19 pandemic and am Vice Chair of Safer Care Victoria (SCV) Expert Working Group for maternity and newborn policy for Victoria. I am a fetal surgeon in the Victorian Fetal Therapy Service for in utero laser fetal surgery for complicated monochorionic twins. I am a member of the Victorian Consultative Council on Obstetric & Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM) to ensure high quality maternity care for Victoria. I am an Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with Monash University and Clinical Associate with the Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute for medical research, where I teach and examine medical students and training specialists and subspecialists. I supervise PhD students in research and lead an active fetal surgical research program collaborating with international experts in Europe and North America with an extensive publication track record and research grant success. This stems from my extensive international training at the world’s leading high-risk obstetric training programs in Europe (Eurofetus, Belgium) and North America (Mount Sinai, University of Toronto, Canada). It is through these roles that I strive to make my contribution to advance health outcomes and experience at a personal level, for my community and on the global stage. I am fortunate to have a gorgeous family with four children, including twins myself. My interests are meditation, surfing, and relaxing with my family at the beach.