Valerie is a paediatrician and director of the Caring for Hearing Impaired Children Clinic at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and leads a hearing loss health services research group at the Murdoch Chilren’s Research Institute to identify early predictors of child outcomes and establish evidence-based management through population and clinical cohorts as well as intervention trials. Valerie chairs the Childhood Hearing Australasian Medical Professionals (CHAMP) Network which developed national guidelines for managing childhood hearing loss. She is a committee member of the Australian Newborn Hearing Screening Committee, and editorial panel member of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.