Professor Yati Soenarto

Professor Yati Soenarto has been called the mother of modern pediatrics in Indonesia. Since graduating in Medicine from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Indonesia, she has pursued a quest to improve the health of the nation’s children and build pediatric capacity in the country’s medical workforce. Her post-graduate training has spanned Indonesia; Vriye Universiteit, Amsterdam; The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne; University of Toronto; and Harvard Medical School, Boston. She has been Professor of Pediatrics at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta since 2007 and was formerly Head of the Department of Pediatrics. In 2015 the University of Melbourne awarded her a Doctor of Medical Science (Honoris Causa). Prof. Dr. Yati Soenarto is the recipient of the Bakrie Award, an award given to Indonesian scientists who care about the progress of the nation to appreciate their development and progress in terms of freedom, culture, and sciences in Indonesia. For decades, she has worked to reduce the mortality and morbidity rates in young children.

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