Nicola Poplawski is a Paediatrician and Clinical Geneticist who trained in New Zealand (the University of Otago), Australia (the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide) and Canada (the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto). She is interested and has experience in genetic education for the public, for families and for health care professionals. Her research focuses on clinical aspects of inherited diseases, including inherited cardiac and endocrine disorders, and familial cancer. Dr Poplawski works as a Clinical Geneticist at the South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, which provides state wide clinical genetics services for South Australians.