Professor John Fraser

Professor John Fraser

• asm@cicm.org.au

Professor John F Fraser MB ChB PhD FRCP(Glas) FFARCSI FCICM FELSO is Founder and Director of the Critical Care Research Group at The Prince Charles Hospital and The University of Queensland, Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and President of the Asia Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation. Established in 2004, the Critical Care Research Group (CCRG) is Australia’s largest multi-disciplinary critical care research facility. CCRG consists of more than eighty leading clinicians, engineers, scientists, statisticians, and support staff connected to all major international cardiothoracic hospitals. CCRG has seven purpose-built biology, engineering, and bio-fabrication laboratories, as well as the largest preclinical ICU in the southern hemisphere. He has a strong successful record in founding translational research from inhalable epinephrine pens for anaphylaxis (https://demotucordis.co/) and co-founding with Dr Daniel Timms (the inventor) Bionic Hearts (https://bivacor.com/) . His group recently completed a 5 year body of work demonstrating new devices that could keep donor hearts alive for more than 10 hours, and this study subsequently led to human study with a 100% survival rate with hearts transplanted off a rig. In January 2020, Fraser founded the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium with colleagues A/Prof Gianluigi LiBassi and Dr Jacky Suen. The Consortium facilitates the systematic collection of aggregate data from COVID-19 ICU patients to assist ICU clinicians in deciding treatment pathways for their patients. The Consortium has collected more than 55 million data points from 470 hospitals in 67 countries creating the world’s most in-depth database of COVID-19 critically ill patients. The Journal of the American Medical Association has acknowledged the ‘quantum change’ the Consortium has made to data collection. John has five professorships across major Australian universities, has published over 600 peer-reviewed publications; received more than AUD 80 million in competitive grants; been invited to deliver over 200 national and international lectures and co-wrote and edited the most comprehensive textbook on Mechanical Circulatory Support. In 2018, John was awarded the Australian Society of Medical Research Clinical Research Award. He is the proud father of five great children: Ben, Dominic, Nicholas, Lucy, and Tommy.