Professor John Myburgh
Professor John Myburgh MBBCh, PhD, DA(SA), FANZCA, FJFICM.
Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales; Director, Division of Critical Care and Trauma, George Institute for International Health and Senior Physician, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, The St George Hospital, Sydney.
Professor Myburgh graduated in Medicine from the University of Witwatersrand in 1981. In 2002, he completed his PhD through the University of Adelaide, Australia on the systemic and neurophysiological effects of catecholamines.
He has published widely on catecholamine pharmacology and clinical aspects of adult neurotrauma, and continues active research in these areas. He is the recipient of academic and peer-reviewed research grants to a total of more than A$16M and has over 200 citations in the literature.
He is a foundation member and immediate Past-Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (CTG). Within the CTG, he is co-ordinator of traumatic brain injury studies and is a member of the writing and management committee of the Saline v Albumin Fluid Evaluation (SAFE), Normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) and Randomised Evaluation of Normal vs Augmented Level renal replacement therapy (RENAL) studies, the Australasia Resuscitation in Sepsis Evaluation (ARISE) and the SAFE translation of research into practice study (SAFE-TRIPS). He is also a associate investigator for the CIHR- funded PROTECT study.
He is a member of the Board of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre and holds an honorary Associate Professor at the Monash Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine affiliated with this position.
In addition to clinical and research activities, he is Vice Dean of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
