Dr Janice Fletcher
FRACP,MBBS(Hons1)(Sydney), MD(Melbourne),BSc(NSW), Clinical Genetics (HGSA)
Telephone 61-8-8161 7295
Facsimilie 61-8-8161 7100
Email: janice.fletcher@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Janice Fletcher is the acting Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology.
She is a paediatrician and geneticist with specialist training in metabolic diseases.
Dr Fletcher is a member of the Australian (ASIEM) and European (SSIEM) special societies for inborn errors of metabolism. She is also a member of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia.
Dr Fletcher trained in Sydney at the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital before
undertaking a postgraduate medical research scholar position at the Murdoch Institute in Melbourne. She was awarded her MD from the University of Melbourne in 1995. Dr Fletcher is also a trained geneticist and is recognised as a Certified Clinical Geneticist by the Human Genetics Society of Australasia.
Dr Fletcher joined the Women’s & Children’s Hospital in 1995 as head of the Metabolic Unit in the Department of Chemical Pathology. In this role she has responsibility for the provision of clinical services for patients from South Australia and parts of the Northern Territory who are diagnosed with, or suspected of having an inborn error of metabolism.
Dr Fletcher was appointed as Acting Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology in November 2001.
PUBLICATIONS:
JM FLETCHER, F SHANN, A DUNCAN
The dangers of premature extubation after severe birth asphyxia.
Australian Paediatric Journal (1987) 23 pp 27-29.
JM FLETCHER, AME BYE, V NAYANAR, B WILCKEN
Non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia presenting as pachygyria.
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disorders (1995) 18 pp 665-668
G TURNER, JM FLETCHER, J ELBER, Y YANAGAWA, V DAVE, A YOSHIDA
Molecular defect of a phosphoglycerate kinase variant associated with haemolytic anaemia and neurological disorders in a large kindred.
British Journal of Haematology (1995) 91 pp 60-64.
P SHARP, E HAAN, JM FLETCHER, TY KHONG, WF CAREY
First-trimester diagnosis of Smith-Lemli Opitz syndrome.
Prenatal Diagnosis (1997) 17:4 pp 355-361.
F ALVARO, I TOOGOOD, JM FLETCHER, J MCMANNIS, P CLEMENTS, T RAWLINGS, B TO Allogeneic CD34 selected peripheral stem cell transplant for Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome (Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI): A Case Report. Rapid haemopoietic and biochemical reconstitution Bone Marrow Transplantation (1998) 21 pp 419-421.
EPE KIRK, JM FLETCHER, P SHARP, WF CAREY, A POULOS
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy: the Australasian experience. American Journal of Medical Genetics (1998) 76 pp 420-423.
JM FLETCHER, JJ PITT
Pitfalls in the use of 2-octynoic acid is an in vivo model of MCAD deficiency: Ketone turnover and metabolite studies in the rat. Metabolism Clinical and Experimental (1999) 48:6 pp 685-688
JM FLETCHER, R COUPER, D MOORE, R COXON, S DORNEY, Liver transplantation for citrullinaemia improves intellectual function. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (1999) 22 pp 581-586
NK POPLAWSKI, E RANIERI, JR HARRISON, JM FLETCHER, Multiple acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency: diagnosis by acyl-carnitine analysis of a 12-year-old newborn screening card. Journal of Paediatrics (1999) 134(6) pp 764-766
HELEN M LEONARD, JANICE M FLETCHER, Inherited metabolic diseases: beyond newborn screening. A national register of cases could aid clinicians, researchers and parents. Medical Journal of Australia (1999) 170 June pp 573-574
JANICE M FLETCHER, GERT MATTHIJS, JAAK JAEKEN, EMILE VAN SCHAFTINGEN, PAUL NELSON, CDG beyond the screen. Journal Of Inherited Metabolic Disease (2000) 23,396-398
EJ WILTSHIRE, NK POPLAWSKI, JR HARRISON, JM FLETCHER: TREATMENT OF LATE ONSET NON-KETOTIC HYPERGLYCINEMIA: Effectiveness of imipramine and benzoate journal of inherited metabolic disease, 23 (2000) 15-21
EJ WILTSHIRE, NK POPLAWSKI, MG HARBORD, JR HARRISON , JM FLETCHER: Ornithine carbamyltransferase deficiency presenting with chorea in a female. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease 23 (2000) 843-844
JM FLETCHER, JJ PITT: Fasting MCAD deficient children can make ketones, Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental, February 2001, V50:2, P161-165
INVITED ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
"Just Genes" The 5th Annual Conference of the Friends of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 12th August 1997
Neurodegeneration in Childhood - What we do in Adelaide AIMS/AACB Combination Scientific Meeting, Perth, 6th-10th October 1997
Paul Grace’s Treatment (Stem Cell Transplant) 7th National Conference on Mucopolysaccharide and Related Diseases 17-19April, 1998, Ballarat, Australia
Workshop on Adult MPS 7th National Conference on Mucopolysaccharide and Related Diseases 17-19April, 1998, Ballarat Australia
Workshop on MPS IV and VI 7th National Conference on Mucopolysaccharide and Related Diseases 17-19April, 1998, Ballarat Australia
"Neonatal Screening" GP refresher week, WCH Adelaide, 2000
Workshop on Women’s Issues for MPS girls and women 8th National Conference on Mucopolysaccharide and Related Diseases, Coffs Harbour, 2000
Workshop on MPS IV and VI 8h National Conference on Mucopolysaccharide and Related Diseases, Coffs Harbour, Australia, 2000
What’s new in PKU National PKU Parent Conference, Sydney, 2000
Newborn Screening and the Prevention of Mental Handicap:
Sydney Children’s Hospital Neurology Meeting in honour of Dr Grahame Wise, Sydney, 2000
Is it Sepsis, Is it Metabolic? Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting 1-5 May, Adelaide, 2000
Inborn Errors of Metabolism (Symposium on Dysmorphology and the Developmentally Delayed Child) Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting 1-5 May, Adelaide, 2000
Leukodystrophy in Australia: an overview: Inaugural Australasian Leukodystrophy Support Group Conference, Melbourne 17-18 Invited oral presentations:
