Professor John A Myburgh AO, is the Director, Professoriate at the George Institute for Global Health.

He is also Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of New South Wales and Senior Intensive Care Physician at the St George Hospital, Sydney.

He holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Investigator Grant Fellowship and an honorary Professorial appointment at the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

He has an extensive research record of accomplishment over 30 years and is regarded as a national and international expert in catecholamine neurophysiology and pharmacology, trials of clinical management of traumatic brain injury, fluid resuscitation and in the development and co-ordination of over 40 clinical trials in Intensive Care Medicine.

He has published over 275 refereed research publications, (including 12 papers in the New England Journal of Medicine) and 45 book chapters and monographs. His current h-index is 44, calculated from 244 publications in SCOPUS, yielding over 15500 citations, with a citation trajectory of 900 to 2200 citations per annum from 2010 to the present.

He has received over $48M grant funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. In addition to other national and international grants, total cumulative research funding to the present is over A$87M.

He has delivered over 400 presentations at national and international scientific meetings since 1994, including over 50 plenary presentations at major scientific congresses.

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 and Preventive Medicine. 

He has made a substantive contribution to education in Intensive Care Medicine, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels over the last 25 years. 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.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science and served on the Council of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine for six years and as Secretary-General from 2017-2019.

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 care medical practitioner, educator and researcher, and as an international innovator in patient management

Anthony Delaney is a father of three and husband to a multi-talented anaesthetist. He is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is a Professorial Fellow in the Division of Critical Care at the George Institute for Global Health, also holding appointments as Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Health at Monash University. He maintains a clinical role as Senior Staff Specialist in the Malcolm Fisher Department of Intensive Care Medicine at The Royal North Shore Hospital.

Associate Professor Delaney’s major research interests are centred on improving methods of resuscitation of patients with sepsis and septic shock and improving outcomes for patients suffering acute severe brain injuries.

Manoj continues to practise as an Intensive Care Physician and is based part-time at St. George Public Hospital in Sydney, playing a key role in the intensive care research program with Professor John Myburgh.

His postgraduate qualifications include Fellowship of both the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and Australia and Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.

Research interests include large scale clinical observational and randomised trials.  Further specific areas of research interest include the role of fever in severe infections and acute brain injury, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness and Early Mobility, and Outcome Evaluation in Critical Care Medicine research.

Dr Serena Knowles is the Program Manager for the Critical Care Program at The George Institute for Global Health. Serena supports the Program Head and Program Lead in managing all aspects of the Critical Care program, including operational activities, business administration, management of grant applications and program strategy and development.

Serena is a nurse researcher, with over 15 years of clinical critical care experience and over 14 years of research experience. Serena completed her PhD in 2016 investigating the use of an evidence-based implementation strategy to effect clinician behaviour change and to improve clinical practice in the area of bowel management within the intensive care unit. Prior to working at TGI, she worked as a Research Coordinator for ICU and neurology trials. Since working at TGI, she has worked in numerous roles, including Clinical Research Associate, Project Manager, and Operations Lead. She is the current Co-Convener for the Point Prevalence Program, a collaboration between TGI and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. 

Serena has an interest in process evaluation and implementation science.

Anna is working as an Associate Project Manager working on the STARS (stroke) and STEPCARE (cardiac arrest) studies. Since joining The George Institute in 2019 she has worked as a Senior Clinical Research Associate on various studies, both in Critical Care as well as other medical fields.  Prior to her employment at The George Institute, Anna was a Clinical Trials and Research Coordinator for the Intensive Care Units at Western Health, Victoria.  Anna has also worked as a Clinical Research Associate for Orion Clinical Services (CRO) and as a Research Coordinator for the Gastroenterology Department at Box Hill Hospital.  She also has a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honors from the University of South Australia, a Postgraduate Diploma in Forensic Science from La Trobe University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration from Swinburne University.

Purnima is a Research Officer at The George Institute for Global Health, currently working on the TReAT Trial project for devising effective exercise regimen and education materials for patients after knee replacement—a project to develop the m-health intervention for monitoring the rehabilitation phase of patients who underwent total knee replacement surgery.

She holds a master’s degree in Physiotherapy (MPT) with a speciality in Musculoskeletal Sciences from the Apex Rehabilitation Institute, All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mumbai, and has over seven years of clinical experience in rehabilitation. She has worked at District Hospital Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

She is keen to learn, develop and implement evidence-based clinical practise in rehabilitation.

Kristy Law is a PhD Candidate in the Food Policy Division at the Global Institute for Global Health and an accredited practicing dietitian. She is also a Global Health Corps alumni – an international fellowship program that equips emerging leaders to advance health equity.

Through her work, Kristy has significant policy and practice experience in addressing poor nutrition, particularly amongst vulnerable populations. She has managed the development and delivery of nutrition and dietetic services to a variety of community groups including women and families; high-risk youth in New Jersey, USA; and Aboriginal people living in rural and remote Western Australia. She has also led the implementation and monitoring of government policy aimed at creating healthy hospital food environments.

Through her PhD, Kristy will study the topic of ‘Food is Medicine’ – a promising initiative that aims to increase the integration of food and nutrition services into the healthcare system to improve health outcomes, particularly for vulnerable populations. She will examine the feasibility and efficacy of establishing Food is Medicine interventions in the Australian context. Her research aspirations involve undertaking strong-quality research that can inform policy and systems change to improve nutrition and reduce diet-related health inequities in Australia.