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Professor Paul Colditz

Professor

UQ Centre for Clinical Research
Faculty of Medicine
p.colditz@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 65273
+61 7 334 66014

Overview

Prof Paul Colditz is the Director of the Perinatal Research Centre.

Paul is a practicing neonatologist with a DPhil in Medicine from Oxford University, UK. He is the Foundation Professor of Perinatal Medicine at UQ, Director of the Perinatal Research Centre, one of the largest research centres in the School of Medicine and Deputy Director at University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR). More recently he has been appointed to the position of President-elect, Paediatrics and Child Health Division, Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

He has professional qualifications in paediatrics, biomedical engineering and medical research. He is involved in teaching and clinical practice. He advises numerous postgraduate students from clinical, engineering and scientific backgrounds and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate medical and science students.Paul is involved in the clinical care of babies and their families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and in the clinical assessment of infant neurodevelopment.

Paul's research focuses on clinically important perinatal health problems and translation to clinical practice. It includes investigations relating to brain injury and neuroprotection, seizure identification and treatment, neural plasticity and pathways to improving neurodevelopmental outcomes, environmental influences (e.g. nutrition, massage) on brain development and infant body composition. He has been lead CI on a number of multi-site randomized controlled trials. His group has become an international leader in the development of the preterm connectome using MRI.

Paul has been a member or chair of NHMRC project and program grant review panels regularly for over a decade and has been a member of NHMRC Australia Fellowship panel. In recent years he has been a member of a NHMRC Career Development Fellowships Panel. This year he has been a member of an NZ HRC program panel, a NHMRC project panel, the RACP scholarship panel, the RACP career establishment panel and the SIDS&Kids/CureKids grant panel. Paul's academic leadership is recognised by being sought to advance clinical research at local, state and national levels: Chair Qld Clinician Scientists Assoc., senior roles in the Division of Paediatrics and Child Health within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, RACP (Chair PCHD Research Committee, member of Council, member of Executive) as well as in the RACP (Chair College Research Committee, Director/board member RACP), member Qld Maternal and Perinatal Quality Council, Chair Qld Congenital malformations committee, leader State Clinical Guideline on Neonatal Seizures, member Qld Health paediatric RCA team, member Qld Dept Communities child death review panel. His experience in knowledge application includes commercialization and the application of research knowledge to clinical practice and health policy. He has several high impact publications that define current clinical practice (Lancet, JAMA, Am J OG) and holds an Australian patent (2006 Approved 2006906381) for a method for detecting EEG seizures in the newborn.

Qualifications

  • FRCPCH
  • FRACP
  • D. Phil, Oxf.
  • M. Biomed.E, University of New South Wales
  • MBBS, University of New South Wales

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Book Chapter

  • Time-frequency methodologies in neurosciences

    Boashash, B., Stevenson, N. J., Rankine, L. J., Stevenson, N. J., Azemi, G., Sejdic, E., Aviyente, S., Akan, A., Mert, A., Dong, S., Omidvarnia, A., Zarjam, P., O'Toole, J. M. and Colditz, P. (2016). Time-frequency methodologies in neurosciences. Time-frequency signal analysis and processing: a comprehensive reference. (pp. 915-966) edited by Boualem Boashash. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398499-9.00016-9

  • Fetal pulse oximetry

    Colditz, Paul B. and East, Christine (2013). Fetal pulse oximetry. Anesthesia and the fetus. (pp. 123-128) edited by Yehuda Ginosar, Felicity Reynolds, Stephen Halpern and Carl P. Weiner. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118477076.ch13

  • Heart rate variability time-frequency analysis for newborn seizure detection

    Mesbah, Mostefa, Boashash, Boualem, Balakrishnan, Malarvili and Coldiz, Paul B. (2009). Heart rate variability time-frequency analysis for newborn seizure detection. Advanced Biosignal Processing. (pp. 95-121) Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-89506-0_5

  • Heart Rate Variability Time-Frequency Analysis for Newborn Seizure Detection

    Mesbah, Mostefa, Boashash, Boualem, Balakrishnan, Malarvili and Coldiz, Paul B. (2009). Heart Rate Variability Time-Frequency Analysis for Newborn Seizure Detection. Advanced Biosignal Processing. (pp. 95-122) edited by Amine Naït-Ali. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-89506-0

  • Perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia: A systemic approach to neuroprotection

    Lingwood, B.E., Bjorkman, S.T. and Colditz, P. (2007). Perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia: A systemic approach to neuroprotection. Hypoxia and the Central Nervous System. (pp. 157-180) edited by Kaur, C.. India: Transworld Research Network.

  • Time-Frequency Diagnosis and Monitoring: Time-Frequency Detection of EEG Abnormalities

    Boashash, Boualem, Mesbah, Mostefa and Colditz, Paul (2003). Time-Frequency Diagnosis and Monitoring: Time-Frequency Detection of EEG Abnormalities. Time Frequency Analysis: A Comprehensive Reference. (pp. 663-670) Elsevier Ltd. doi: 10.1016/B978-008044335-5/50036-X

  • Time-frequency detection of EEG abnormalities

    Boashash, B., Mesbah, M. and Colditz, P. B. (2003). Time-frequency detection of EEG abnormalities. Time-frequency signal analysis and processing: A comprehensive reference. (pp. 663-670) edited by Boualem Boashash. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier Science.

  • Baby Help, A Diagnostic Tool For Indigenous Parents And Health Workers

    Vlack, S., Shannon, C., Colditz, P. B. and Hooper, L. (2002). Baby Help, A Diagnostic Tool For Indigenous Parents And Health Workers. Baby Help, A Diagnostic Tool For Indigenous Parents And Health Workers. (pp. xx-xx) Queensland: Queensland Health, Indigenous Health Division, University of Queensland..

  • Better Practice For Child Health Service Delivery To Queensland Indigenous Communities

    Vlack, S., Shannon, C., Colditz, P. and Hooper, L. (2002). Better Practice For Child Health Service Delivery To Queensland Indigenous Communities. Better Practice For Child Health Service Delivery To Queensland Indigenous Communities. (pp. 1-109) St Lucia, Brisbane: Queensland Health, Indigenous Health Division, The University of Queensland.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Identification of brain events via electroencephalogram eeg through blind source seperation

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Understanding how remote application of near infrared light induces neuroprotection

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Examining long-term neuroprotection in the growth restricted newborn

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Relationship between Early Biomarkers of Cerebral Palsy and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Electroencephalogram assessment of neural networks in preterm and term infants as an early marker to predict neurodevelopmental outcomes

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Blood biomarkers to detect brain injury in the growth restricted newborn

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Capillary ultrastructure and fluid loss from the circulation in preterm piglets

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Factors driving early plasma loss in preterm piglets

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

Babies - health, Biomedical engineering, Birth asphyxia, Cerebral palsy, Child birth, Child development, Child growth, Infants - health, Neonatal intensive care, Neonatology, Neurodevelopment - paediatrics, Paediatrics, Perinatology, Pregnancy - foetal developmet, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Intensive care - neonatal, Health - babies, Premature babies, Asphyxia - at birth, SIDS, Perinatal neuroscience, Engineering - biomedical

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6408-8238

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