Jeanie Cheong is a neonatologist who is interested in life beyond discharge from the neonatal nursery. She is an internationally recognised clinician-researcher on the long-term health and development of high-risk newborns, especially those born preterm. She heads the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study, the longest running epidemiological study of extremely preterm cohorts, as well as the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine.