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Prof Lipman is Emeritus Professor at The University of Queensland and Chair of Trauma-related Clinical Research, Jamieson Trauma Institute, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He was Executive Director of the Burns Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre; Emeritus ex Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, The University of Queensland and for 20 years until 2018 was Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland, Australia.
He has qualifications in anaesthesia and intensive care and has set up and been in charge of a number of Intensive Care and Trauma Units in South Africa before coming to Australia in 1997. He currently manages a large multidisciplinary research team with an output of over 120 peer-reviewed articles per annum. Prof Lipman has been instrumental in developing the anaesthesiology and critical care component of a graduate medical program for Queensland and continues to lecture to medical and postgraduate students.
Prof Lipman is the author of over 600 peer reviewed publications, 26 book chapters and has been invited to deliver over 120 lectures at national and international conferences in many countries across the world. His research interests include all aspects of infection management in intensive care and he has a special interest in the pharmacokinetics of antibiotic dosage, an area in which he received his MD in 2006. His research into antibiotic usage in acute situations has received international recognition and he is regarded as an expert in the field. As such, he and his research team have conducted and presently conduct a number of clinical trials in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Europe and the UK. Prof Lipman is an editorial board member for 10 international journals, reviews for 23 journals and is an external reviewer for NHMRC project grants and serves on the grant review committee.