Rate My Professor Jacqueline Frayne

Jacqueline Frayne is an Associate Professor in the General Practice discipline within the UWA Medical School at The University of Western Australia. Holding qualifications including MBBS, DRANZCOG, FRACGP, MMed (Women's Health), GCIM, and PhD, she completed her PhD on comprehensive pregnancy care for women with severe mental illness. As a general practitioner, she divides her career between clinical practice, academic teaching, and research. In clinical roles, she works in a community general practice managing patient care and supervising medical students during their placements, and as a medical officer at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, providing antenatal care and specialized multidisciplinary clinic services for women with severe mental illnesses in pregnancy. Academically, she teaches in the Division of General Practice and clinical skills, and serves as the lead for the Advocacy theme in the MD program.

Her research specializes in translational women’s health, encompassing severe mental illnesses in pregnancy, clinical reasoning and advocacy in medical students, hypertension, cardiometabolic and nutritional health in pregnancy, psychotropic prescribing during pregnancy and breastfeeding, breast density, and menstrual health for Aboriginal women. Key publications include 'The obstetric and neonatal outcomes of pregnant women with severe mental illness (SMI) attending a specialist antenatal clinic' (2012, Medical Journal of Australia), 'Obstetric outcomes for women with severe mental illness: 10 years of experience in a tertiary multidisciplinary antenatal clinic' (2019, Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics), 'Nutritional status, food choices, barriers and facilitators to healthy nutrition in pregnant women with severe mental illness: a mixed methods approach' (2020, Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics), 'Knowledge and Confidence in Psychotropic Prescribing, Utilisation of Guidelines and Resources in Managing Perinatal Mental Health in General Practice: An Australian Cross-Sectional Survey' (2026, The Australian Journal of Rural Health), and 'Developing a co-designed miscarriage communication guide for general practitioners in training' (2025, Australian Journal of General Practice). Her work informs guidelines such as the Australian perinatal mental health guidelines 2018, Clinical practice guidelines Pregnancy care 2020, RANZCP perinatal mental health position statement 2021, Perinatal mental infant health plan 2025 - Western Australia, and American Psychological Association Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Women with Serious Mental Illness 2022. She contributes to committees including the National Women’s Health Research, Translation and Research Impact Network, WA Perinatal Mental Health Subnetwork, and National Endometriosis Online Resources Steering Committee.