Associate Professor Mark Plummer

Biography

Associate Professor Mark Plummer is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Fellow, an intensive care specialist and the Head of Research and Innovation at Royal Adelaide Hospital ICU. He graduated from The University of Adelaide Medical School in 2008 as dux of his year. During his specialist training he was the recipient of prestigious national awards, for both the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists primary exam (Renton Medal, 2012) and the College of Intensive Care Medicine fellowship exam (Don Harrison Medal, 2019). He undertook advanced training in neurointensive care and post-doctoral research at Addebrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He is passionate about clinical trials with research interests that span sepsis, stress hyperglycaemia and acute brain injury. He has developed expertise in developing large animal models of critical illness and has a track record of rapidly translating pre-clinical findings into phase I and II clinical trials in the critically ill.

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He has secured >$8 million in Category One funding from NHMRC Investigator and Ideas grants as well as various MRFF funding schemes. He sits on the management committee for the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group and is on the Editorial Board for the journal Critical Care and Resuscitation.