Aine Sommerfield is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Medical School and is affiliated with the Institute for Paediatric Perioperative Excellence established at the University of Western Australia in 2023.  She is also a Clinical Research Program Manager at Telethon Kids Institute and Perth Children's Hospital. Aine works within the most active paediatric anaesthesia research program in Australasia which is led by Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg, the Chair of Paediatric Anaesthesia at the University of Western Australia. The research program is focused on continuously driving improvements in safety and quality of care along the perioperative pathway.