Trevor is the Director of the Centre for International Child Health at University of Melbourne and RCH and Deputy Director of the ICU and Clinical Director of general intensive care unit at RCH and has broad experience in all aspects of child health in developing countries.
Trevor also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Child Health in the School of Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea, where he coordinates the post-graduate paediatric training program.
He is a member of the PNG National Department of Health Child Health Advisory Committee, and previously worked as a provincial paediatrician in Goroka.
Trevor heads the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Child and Neonatal Health. He was an author and editor of the WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children, which has been translated into 18 languages and is used in over 40 low and middle income countries. He is the editor of the WHO manual on Clinical Use of Oxygen in Children, and the WHO guideline on clinical mortality and morbidity auditing. Trevor annually compiles the publication Randomised Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries, which is distributed to over 2000 paediatricians, nurses, institutions and UN agencies throughout the world.
Trevor’s particular research interests include the epidemiology and management of acute respiratory infections, improving the quality of paediatric care in district and provincial hospitals, oxygen and hypoxaemia, disease surveillance and auditing, neonatal illness, meningitis, and childhood tuberculosis. He is particularly focused on Pacific child health, having been involved in the training of over 50 paediatricians in PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu since 1997.
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FRACP - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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Professor
Paediatrics Royal Children'S Hospital
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Joint Faculty of Intensive Care, Royal Australasian College of Physicians / Anaesthetists
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Chairman, Asia-Pacific Committee, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society
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Papua New Guinea Paediatric Society
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Medical Society of Papua New Guinea
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Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Education
Doctorate of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery
University of Melbourne