Dr Charles is a paediatric and perinatal pathologist based at the Princess Margaret and King Edward Memorial Hospitals , Perth , Western Australia . He trained in Medicine at Cambridge University , UK , spending his elective in Pathology. After some training in adult medicine and clinical paediatrics, he then trained in anatomical pathology, also based at Cambridge . He trained in Paediatric and perinatal pathology with Professor Jem Berry in Bristol , dealing with stillbirths and SIDS cases, as well as surgical biopsy material. He undertook full time molecular research into Wilms tumours leading to an MD from Cambridge . After a period as a senior lecturer, developing a diagnostic molecular laboratory and helping to organise the undergraduate pathology teaching, he moved to Perth . He helped develop the perinatal loss clinic, and collaborated in a large stillbirth project funded by the NHMRC. He has supervised PhD students in placenta and apoptosis, in the biology of Wilms tumours and in the epidemiology of stillbirths.