Centre for Kidney Research team members
Paul Roy
Clinical Researcher
Email: lpaulroy@yahoo.com
Dr Paul Roy trained at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children [ now The Children's Hospital at Westmead] in Sydney. He then trained in paediatric nephrology at the University of Minnesota, USA. On his return to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Paul set up the first comprehensive renal unit in Australia. This unit, now headed by Dr Elisabeth Hodson, provides a full range of services for children with diseases of the urinary tract and has supervised renal transplantation in over 100 children. The unit is active in clinical and basic research and has trained paediatric nephrologists who now practice both in Australia and overseas.
He was appointed as a Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatrics, at the University of Sydney in 1993. He has been a guest lecturer in the United States of America, Sweden, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Paul was awarded the Royal Australian College of Physicians Medal in 1995.
In October 1995 he accepted the Appointment as Director of Paediatric Services for the Central Sydney Area Health Service following the relocation of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children from central Sydney to its current site at Westmead. aul remains a member of the Department of Nephrology both as a clinician and as the Principal Investigator of clinical studies of urinary tract infection and vesicoureteric reflux funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
His research interests have included hypertension in children, use of cysteamine in the management of cystinosis, and epidemiologic studies of urinary tract infections and vesico-ureteric reflux. In 1999 Paul became a member of the American Education Research Association and after three months as Visiting Professor to the Centre for Research In Education, University Health Network, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada was elected a Life Time Honorary Member.
In 2005 Paul was admitted to the degree Doctor of Medicine (MD) by the University of Sydney.
