Scientific Review Panel (SRP)

Current members of the APSU Scientific Review Panel include:

Professor Elizabeth Elliott
Professor Elizabeth Elliott
Director, The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit.

Professor, Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician, The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Director, The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit.

David Burgner
Professor David Burgner

Professor David Burgner is a paediatric infectious diseases clinician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and a Group Leader and Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.  He co-leads the LifeCourse Initiative, which brings together MCRI’s unique longitudinal studies (LifeCourse - A Melbourne Children's Research Initiative).  His research program focuses on susceptibility and to childhood infection and inflammation and the cardiometabolic consequences. He has been a member of the APSU SRP since 2013.

Dr Fiona Mackie
Dr Fiona Mackie

Dr Mavis Duncanson
Dr Mavis Duncanson

Dr David Lester-Smith
Dr David Lester-Smith

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Dr Tasneem Karim
MBBS, MPH. Research Fellow, Westmead Clinical School, Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney

Dr Tasneem Karim is a physician and clinical epidemiologist in the field of international child health. Her current research focuses on the burden, risk factors, early detection and intervention for children with cerebral palsy particularly in low resource settings. She has been a member of APSU SRP since 2018.