Prof. John A MyburghINTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
Professor John A Myburgh, AO, is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of New South Wales; Director of the Division of Critical Care and Trauma at the George Institute for International Health and Senior Intensive Care Physician at the St George Hospital, Sydney. He holds honorary professorial appointments at University of Sydney and Monash University School of Public Health.
He has an extensive research track record of over 25 years and is regarded as a national and international expert in catecholamine neurophysiology and pharmacology, trials of clinical management of traumatic brain injury and in the development and co-ordination of over 30 clinical trials in intensive care medicine. His list of publications and success in recurrent grant funding is in the top 1 percent of intensive care physicians in Australia and within the top 5 percent internationally. These include over 190 refereed research publications, (including eight papers in the New England Journal of Medicine) and 45 book chapters and monographs.
He has been Chief Investigator on 11 NHMRC project grants and two enabling grants, Associate Investigator on four grants receiving a total of $26.8m since 1998. In addition to eight international and 21 institutional peer-reviewed grants and five unrestricted commercial, total cumulative funding at the end of 2014 was over $53m. In 2012 and 2014, he was awarded 'Practitioner Fellowships from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
He is a Foundation Member and Past-Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre at the Monash University School of Public Health. In 2006, he was appointed to establish the Division of Critical Care and Trauma at the George Institute for Global Health and has developed programs of research including new opportunities for clinician-researchers that includes five PhD, two post-doctoral, three masters’ students and seven honorary positions. He has delivered over 350 presentations at national and international scientific meetings since 1994, including 50 plenary presentations at major scientific congresses.
He has received four major awards for research including the International Sepsis Forum Award (2007), two University of New South Wales Research Excellence awards (2010, 2103) and was listed on the ANZICS Honour Roll in 2013. He is a current Council Member for the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.
He has reviewed manuscripts for 26 national and international journals (including the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet) and sits on two journal editorial boards. He has assessed grants for 11 funding agencies including the NHMRC and Canadian Institute for Health Research.
In addition to his research profile, he has a long-established profile in education in intensive care medicine, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was instrumental in establishing the College of Intensive Care Medicine, serving as a fellowship examiner for twelve years, on the board for ten years and as the first elected president from 2010-2012.
In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday honours, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medicine as an intensive and critical care practitioner, educator and researcher, and as an international innovator in patient management. In 2015, he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science.
