Professor Helen Liley is a neonatologist at the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane. She is also co-leader for the Mother and Baby Theme at Mater Research. In recent years, she has been involved in the team sport of systematic review and critical appraisal of the literature for the development of evidence-based guidelines in a variety of areas. These include neonatal and paediatric patient blood management (for the National Blood Authority)  and neonatal resuscitation (for the Australian Resuscitation Council) and for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, whose Newborn Life Support Task Force she now chairs.