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Advisory
Board of Directors, Chair
 Peter
Barr has been a newborn intensive care physician in Sydney, Australia
for 30 years. Currently, he is Senior Staff Physician in Neonatology
at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children. Peter has a long-standing
and passionate interest in perinatal bereavement. He was co-founder
of the New South Wales SANDS (Stillbirth and Newborn Death Support)
self-help support group in 1983. He co-authored with his wife, Deborah
de Wilde, the 1987 book "Stillbirth and Newborn Death: Death and
life are the same mysteries". Peter, Deborah and psychologist, Julie
Dunsmore, made the 1985 award winning documentary film, "Some Babies
Die". Peter was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
in 1992 for his clinical work in the area of perinatal bereavement.
In 2004, he was awarded a PhD by The University of Sydney for his
empirical research thesis: "Guilt, Shame, and Grief: An Empirical
Study of Perinatal Bereavement". Peter lives in inner metropolitan
Sydney with his beloved Deborah and their two daughters, Freya and
Madeleine, who provide him with nurture and give his life its existential
meaning.
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