Prof. Rob Boots

Biography:

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Rob has been the Deputy Director of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) since 2000 and is an Associate Professor of the Burns, Critical Care and Trauma research centre of the University of Queensland, an integrated, multidisciplinary research centre with basic science, clinical science and epidemiology outputs established in 2004. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Queensland in 1984 and completed clinical training in respiratory medicine and intensive care under the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the now College of Intensive Care Medicine with a Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology (University of Newcastle) and a Masters Degree in Health Management and Information Technology (University of Central Queensland). Rob has maintained a teaching and research component to his employment averaging around 20% of total practice, the remaining time being split between administrative and clinical responsibilities with teaching and research forming a component of his contracts of employment. There have been no career interruptions. Teaching: Rob was the Chair of the Queensland Regional Committee for the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine for 6 years and served on the committee for over 10 years becoming a Board member of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand in 2010 and is presently the Censor. As Deputy Director of Clinical Training at RBWH he completed training in clinical education (Harvard Macy Program for Physician Educators-Boston) and ran the procedural skills program for 12 years. Rob is a lead faculty member of the Queensland Health Skills Development Centre and was active in its design and implementation program in addition to being on the international steering committee of the Basic Assessment and Skills in Intensive Care course and the Program Chair of the Medical Emergency Response Training at RBWH. He introduced a web-based training program for Medical Emergency Response training and an orientation and teaching program for intensive care units in Queensland. He examines for RACP and RACS. Research: His main research interests include the clinical management of burns, rehabilitation of the long term critically ill and the prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia, the later being the topic of his PhD from the University of Newcastle in 2005. He has been a member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group since its inception in 1996 and the Point Prevalence Management Committee since 2008. He has been a principle site investigator in several national and international critical care trials including CHEST, Prowess I and 2 and Low Dose Dopamine to Prevent Renal Failure and functioned as a site PI for the critical care experience of H1N2 in Australia and New Zealand. He has received grant support from Queensland Health, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Foundation. Rob is a reviewer of manuscripts for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, European Journal of Epidemiology, Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Forum, Focus on Health Professional education, Respirology and Neurocritical Care. He has also reviewed grants for the NHMRC and other granting bodies. Invited presentations and workshops: Rob is a regular invited speaker nationally and internationally and in 2005 was invited to the Shock and Critical Care conference in Indonesia for lectures on nutrition in burns and high dependency unit management. In 2008 he was invited to speak on the “Uses and abuses of prevalence studies” at the Noosa meeting of the Clinical Trials Group of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. In 2010 he was an invited speaker at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Conference, Melbourne on high frequency oscillation. He was a plenary speaker for the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association annual scientific meeting in 2011 discussing fluid resuscitation in burns and was invited to the Asia Pacific Critical Care Meeting in Hong Kong to speak on the elderly in ICU, burns resuscitation and telemedicine uses in the ICU. Publications: Rob has published over 90 articles 80% of these articles are in Tier A*, A and B journals, contributing to data collection in two NEJM publications. A/Prof Boots has a large number of invited articles reflecting his expert status and currently has 751 citations from these articles with a h-index of 15. Postgraduate Supervision: Rob has experience in supervision of higher degree students (3 to completion and 3 Current) and has co-supervised students with CIE in the area of chronic critical illness and sepsis in ICU.

Academic positions:

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Associate Professor University of Queensland

Research interests:

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Burns, Lung Infection, Critical Care Rehabilitation

What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:

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New to this

Home Page:

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http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/bootsrj.html