Professor Clare Nourse

ATH - Professor

Children's Health Queensland Clinical Unit
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

Professor Clare Nourse AM is a paediatric infection specialist at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and clinical professor of paediatrics at the University of Queensland. She qualified in medicine in from Trinity College Dublin and trained at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin, Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Her particular interests are in tropical medicine, HIV, TB and syphilis infection in children, health in resource limited countries and staph aureus infection. She travels regularly to Timor Leste and is a board director of Maluk Timor, a not for profit organisation in Dili, of which she chairs the Medical Advisory Committee.Clare established the Paediatric Infection Management Service at Mater Children’s Hospital in 2001 and currently leads the Children’s Health Queeensland (CHQ) Paediatric services for HIV, Tuberculosis and Syphilis. Clare regularly contributes to/leads national multicentre trials in Australia and New Zealand. She is the author of 70+ peer reviewed publications. Clare is the recipient of many external grants for service provision (Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government for the Pacific Infectious Diseases Prevention (PIDP) Program) and research (Queensland Sexual Health Research Fund and others).

Research Interests

  • Epidemiology of infection in Children
  • Paediatric TB
  • Paediatric HIV
  • Congenital syphilis
  • Staph aureus infection

Qualifications

  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Doctoral Diploma of Medicine, University College Dublin
  • Postgraduate Diploma, University College Dublin
  • Bachelor of Arts, University College Dublin

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Supervision

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