Dr. Maria Craig
Associate Professor Maria Craig, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, MMed(ClinEpi).
Associate Professor, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of NSW, and Pediatric Endocrinologist, St George Hospital, Kogarah and the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.A/Prof Craig graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1989 and has specialist qualifications in Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology (FRACP 1999). She was awarded a PhD (University of Sydney, 2002) investigating the molecular epidemiology of enterovirus infections in children with type 1 diabetes (supported by a NHMRC postgraduate scholarship). She received the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) Young Investigator’s award for her diabetes epidemiology research in 1997. She was awarded a Master of Clinical Epidemiology (2003) and completed a Master of Biostatistics (2011).
A/Prof Craig has built a research program investigating the epidemiology and aetiology of childhood diabetes. Highlights of her international research career include publications in the epidemiology of childhood diabetes and viral aetiology of diabetes (BMJ 2011). She has contributed to research into diabetes care and complications including a major role in two large Cochrane reviews of diabetic nephropathy (BMJ 2005, 134 citations).
A/Prof Craig has received more than $2 million in grant funding since commencing her postgraduate research career in 2001. She received a NHMRC Australian health professional research scholarship (2004-2006), a NHMRC Career Development Award (2007-2011), was CIA on a project grant investigating the viral aetiology of type 1 diabetes (2008-2010). She is an investigator on the international Trial to Reduce the Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in the Genetically at Risk (TRIGR), Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes Cardio-Renal Intervention Trial (AdDIT) and the Aussie AdDIT study (funded by NHMRC 2010 – 2014).
She has reviewed grants for the NHMRC and Diabetes Australia Research Trust, reviewed manuscripts for BMJ, Diabetes Care, Diabetologia, Clinical Endocrinology, Diabetic Medicine and Medical Journal of Australia. Invited presentations include the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) Scientific Meetings (2006-2008), the Australian Society for Microbiology (2006), Viruses in May (2009) and the International Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (2010).
She has been a council member of APEG since 2003, served as President (2007-2009) and is currently Vice President. She is co-chair of the Expert Advisory Group for the APEG/ADS National Evidence Based Clinical Care Guidelines for Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Adults.
She has made significant contributions to postgraduate teaching and has been scientific co-ordinator for the Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society Fellows’ Meetings since 2002.
