Professor John F Fraser MB ChB, PhD, FRCP (Glas), FFARCSI, FRCA, FCICM, FELSO
ORCID # : 0000-0002-7012-2519
Professor & Pre-Eminent Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane
Director of the Critical Care Research Group, University of Queensland & The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane
Director of Intensive Care Unit, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane
Professor Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Queensland
Professor of Medicine, Bond University
Professor, School of Medicine, Griffith University
Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Adjunct Professor, Monash University
Honorary Research Fellow, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Affiliate Membership, Translational Research Institute

COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium

  • How Australian medicos brought the world together to beat a deadly virus

    An informal network of the globe’s most brilliant medical minds helped us understand how to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients.

  • Robert Bartlett

    2021 Symposium Keynote

    Professor Robert Bartlett gave the Keynote Address as part of the 2021 Global Symposium for the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium.

  • News anchorwoman in purple blazer sitting at news desk with large screen behind showing images related to virus study, COVID-19, and coronavirus.

    ICUs prepared as borders reopen

    A dedicated team at Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital has collected COVID health data on critically ill patients across the globe.

  • What does the Consortium mean to our global family

    Established in 2020, the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium was created to support ICUs at the coal face of the pandemic. The Australian-led initiative quickly became so much more.

  • Pauline Ng

    Geographical Differences in COVID-19

    Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with COVID-19 Admitted to ICU. Dr Pauline Y Ng presented this update on behalf of the Consortium at EuroELSO.

  • Logo for COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium incorporating ECMOcard, featuring a human outline, lungs, a heart, and a virus icon.

    Visit covid-critical.com

    A global collaboration born from a global crisis.

ICU of the Future

  • Intensive Care Units are designed to save lives...

    But what about a patient’s quality of life after they leave hospital? Learn more about ICU Delirium and how the Critical Care Research Group is revolutionising ICU practices to combat this serious but little-known condition.

  • ABC News

    Delirium and PTSD are two common symptoms of ICU stays.

    Researchers are working to change that. ABC Health & Wellbeing story by Jennifer Leake.

  • Screenshot of a news website showing an article about future of intensive care. The image within the article features a modern hospital room with a patient bed, medical staff, and visitors, with large windows letting in natural light.

    Is the future of intensive care more patient-friendly?

    Hospitals are great for people who are critically ill but not so great if you want to get a good night's sleep. And that's a major problem for patients in intensive care, where bright lights and loud noises can drive patients mad.

  • Hospital patient room with hospital bed, medical equipment, and dim lighting

    All in the Mind podcast

    It’s a condition which affects some patients who end up in intensive care … and can continue after they’re released from hospital.

Hypothermic Ex-Vivo Perfusion (HEVP)

  • Team of surgeons performing an open-heart surgery in an operating room.

    HEVP used in historic organ transplant

    The Critical Care Research Group has been thanked by the American doctors behind the historic Pig-Human heart transplant for their game-changing research that was key to the success of the surgery.

  • Two men in a laboratory examining a clear container with a small object inside, possibly a medical or scientific sample.

    Australian device plays key role in US pig-human heart transplant

    A device developed in part by Brisbane experts that can extend the preservation time of donor organs played a key role in the recent successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human in the United States.

  • A smiling woman and man with their arms around each other standing on a city street.

    Professor Fraser speaks to ABC Brisbane's Craig Zonca and Loretta Ryan

    Download audio file of interview here

  • TPCHF-BB-Dr-Louise-See-Hoe

    Dr Louise See Hoe is setting donor hearts at rest

    β€œMy goal is to improve the number and quality of donor hearts available for transplant”.

  • Thank you to The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation donors for supporting HEVP

Videos

  • John Elso

    Euro ELSO 2021 Keynote Address

  • John Fraser AO 2020ELSO.

    ELSO 2020

    Professor Fraser dons his Hawaiian shirt and serenades us as part of the 2020 ELSO Conference

  • TEDxUQ John Fraser

    TEDxUQ

    Impossible is nothing

  • John Fraser

    Investment Magazine

    Fiduciary Investors Symposium - Conquering the virus: β€œHey Alexa, can you cure this pandemic?”

  • Professor John Fraser speaking during a panel at EXPO 2020 Dubai, wearing a dark suit and patterned shirt, with a headset microphone.

    Expo 2020 Dubai | World Majlis

    The Expo 2020 World Majlis in Dubai brings together thought leaders, visionaries and changemakers to explore the future of faster and safer medical innovations. Prof Fraser joins the panel discussion At the Speed of Life - The Future of Medical Innovation 1 Feb 2022.