Sarah Jane Mitchell

Sarah Jane Mitchell’s devotion to paediatrics started as a student at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Sick Children. Training in north London, she developed a special interest in neonatology. Her other passion—travel (she visited six continents and 35 countries)—led her to Sydney in 1997, where she specialised in neonatal transport medicine. The completion of her CCST (certificate of completion of specialist training) in the United Kingdom at Whittington Hospital and Great Ormond Street tragically coincided with the diagnosis of her illness. It didn’t stop her returning to Australia, where she became director of the Western Australian Neonatal Transport Service in Perth. She fought breast cancer with dignity and incredible determination, continuing to work, travel, and complete triathlons while undergoing chemotherapy. She leaves her husband, Steve.