Dr. Maria Craig
Dr. Maria Craig, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, MMed(ClinEpi).
Senior Lecturer, School of Women’s and ChilDr.en’s Health, University of NSW, and Pediatric Endocrinologist, St George Hospital, Kogarah and ChilDr.en’s Hospital at Westmead.
Dr. 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 chilDr.en with type 1 diabetes (supported by a NHMRC postgraduate scholarship). She was awarded a Master of Clinical Epidemiology (2003).
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Craig has built a research program investigating the epidemiology and aetiology of childhood onset type 1 diabetes. Highlights of her international research career include publications in the epidemiology of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and viral aetiology of diabetes. She has contributed significantly to research into diabetes care and complications including a major role in two large Cochrane reviews of diabetic nephropathy (with over 100 citations).
She received the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) Young Investigator’s award for her diabetes epidemiology research in 1997. Dr. Craig was awarded a NHMRC Australian health professional research scholarship (2004-2006) and a NHMRC Career Development Award (2007-2010).
Dr. Craig currently holds a NHMRC Project Grant (2008-2010) for $456,000 and has received more than $1 million in grant funding since commencing her postgraduate research career in 2001.
Dr. Craig 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) and the Australian Society for Microbiology (2006).
Dr. Craig has been a council member of APEG since 2003 and President (2007-2009). She has made significant contributions to postgraduate teaching in the role of scientific co-ordinator for the Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society Fellows’ Meetings in from 1999 – 2007.
