Paul Lee-Archer

A/Prof Lee-Archer is a consultant paediatric anaesthetist and researcher. He works as a senior staff specialist at the Queensland Children’s Hospital where he is head of anaesthesia research and head of liver transplant anaesthesia. He is a councillor for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaestheists (ANZCA) and sits on the Queensland Regional Committee for ANZCA and on the Research Committees of ANZCA and the Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia in New Zealand and Australia (SPANZA)

A/Prof Lee-Archer completed a PhD on behaviour change in children after anaesthesia and continues to have a research interest in outcomes after surgery and anaesthesia. He led a team of international researchers to develop a world-first quality of recovery scale for children that has been translated into many languages and is being used globally.

A/Prof Lee-Archer has experience with multi-centre and international trials, he was a site investigator for the TREX trial (a comparison of two general anaesthetics for infants on neuro-developmental outcomes).

A/Prof Lee-Archer has been convenor or scientific convenor for various conferences including the ANZCA ASM (2024) and the SPANZA/APABGI ASM (2019) and has been an invited speaker for numerous international and national meetings. He is a previous chair of the ANZCA Queensland Regional Committee, a member of the SPANZA Executive Committee and a member of the CHQ Human Research Ethics Committee.