Adjunct Professor
Nikhil Thapar
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Biography
Prof Nikhil Thapar is a Clinical/Health Services Research Senior Research Fellow position at QUT within the Woolworths Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research and is a member of the Strategic Leadership Group. In July 2019, Professor Nikhil Thapar commenced as Director of the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit at Queensland Children’s Hospital. This service is one of the longest established statewide specialist services in Australia providing tertiary and quarternary gastroenterology, nutrition, hepatology and liver transplant services to Queensland and north New South Wales. In addition the service is being developed to provide national quarternary services for neurogastroenterology and motility. Professor Nikhil Thapar's main remit is to drive sustainable clinical excellence within, and build academic / research capability of, the service, with the aim of establishing a world leading centre for the sub-specialty with an active programme of cutting edge and collaborative research and innovation. His research will be looking to establish a regenerative medicine and gut-related neural system research programme.Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Research field
Sports science and exercise
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Professional memberships and associations
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- Asia Pan Pacific Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- British Society of Developmental Biology
- British Society of Gastroenterology
- British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- London Neurogastroenterology Group Executive (paediatric lead) – Barts & the London School of Medicine
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Elected as Fellow in 2017)
- European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (Paediatric Lead)
Teaching
Professor Nikhil Thapar has supervised and mentored 2-3 trainees and junior consultant faculty every year since 2005 (27 to date).
Publications
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/nikhil.thapar