
Overview
Background
Professor Craig A McBride PhD, FRACS, FACS is a full-time Senior Staff Specialist Paediatric Surgeon at Children's Health Queensland. He is also an educator, a researcher, and a father to two boys. In addition to his public work, he has a private practice at www.betterkids.com.au.
Professor McBride is originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand and worked in three of the four Paediatric Surgical units in that country, before moving to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne for the final two years of his surgical training. Following Fellowship in 2007, he moved to Brisbane and has been here ever since.
He has specialised interest and expertise in thoracic, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, burns and trauma. He is also a member of both the Children's Health Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee and the Clinical Ethics Response Group at Queensland Children's Hospital, as well as being involved in the Queenslannd Children's Critical Incident Panel and the Clinical Incident Subcommittee of the Queensland Paediatric Quality Council.
Craig has published research in many areas related to children's health.
Availability
- Dr Craig McBride is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Human Biology, The University of Auckland
- Bachelor of Medicine Surgery, The University of Auckland
- Doctor of Philosophy of Paediatric, Child and Youth Health, The University of Queensland
- Foreign Fellow, American College of Surgeons, American College of Surgeons
- Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons
- Honorary Academic, Bond University, Bond University
- Honorary Academic, Griffith University, Griffith University
- Honorary Academic, Queen Mary University of London, Queen Mary University of London
- Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Research interests
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Vascular Access
Vascular access, particularly as it pertains to children and particularly long-term vascular access
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Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic
Congenital Hyperinsulinism Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia Meso-Rex Shunts Choledochal Cysts Registries for rare conditions such as the above
Works
Search Professor Craig McBride’s works on UQ eSpace
1993
Journal Article
Screening for diabetes during pregnancy
McBride, C., Roberts, A., Knox, A. and Cundy, T. (1993). Screening for diabetes during pregnancy. BMJ, 306 (6881), 858-858. doi: 10.1136/bmj.306.6881.858
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Craig McBride is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Multimedia informed consent for paediatric research: a mixed methods exploration of perspectives
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Amanda Ullman
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Doctor Philosophy
Impact of nitric oxide on inflammation and coagulation in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Antje Blumenthal
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