Bart Currie

Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia

Bart Currie

Academic positions:
- Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Darwin Hospital
- Professor in Medicine, Northern Territory Clinical School, Flinders University.
- Head of the Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr Currie's areas of interest include clinical and epidemiological aspects of tropical and emerging infections, development of treatment guidelines and clinical toxinology.

Any other information:
Awards
- Australian of the Year Northern Territory finalist
- Northern Territory Research & Innovation Awards, 2005 - "NT Research Award"
- Northern Territory Research & Innovation Awards, 2005 - "Chief Minister’s Research and Innovation Award"
- Ashdown Oration and Medal, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians Eric Susman Prize and Medal for the best contribution to the knowledge of any branch of internal medicine in Australia for 2001
- Wellcome Travelling Fellowship, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

Professional Societies:
- Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Fellow, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- Member, International Society on Toxinology
- Member, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Member, Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
- Member, Medical Association for Prevention of War

Dr Currie is a peer reviewer for numerous scientific publications

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Infectious Diseases > Bacterial Infections (since 16 November 2005)

Bart Currie is a Section Head for Bacterial Infections, part of the INFECTIOUS DISEASES Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.menzies.edu.au/