Dr Mark Coulthard

Dr Coulthard (MB BS, PhD, FRACP, FCICM) is a UQ medical graduate and paediatric intensivist, who undertook paediatric critical care training at the University of Texas, Southwestern Children's Medical Centre (1991–1994). During the fellowship, he spent 2 years in Prof Robert Munford’s lab investigating gene therapy for sepsis.

He has been a paediatric intensive care consultant in Brisbane since 1996. He enrolled in a PhD with Prof Andrew Boyd at Queensland Institute of Medical Research (awarded by UQ in 2008). He produced two strains of EphA1 knockout mice and in 2009 secured funds to undertake preliminary research to investigate the role of Eph signalling in vascular leak in critical illness.

Dr Coulthard recently stepped down as an active paediatric intensivist and now has a part-time role at the Queensland Children’s Hospital. He was a foundation board member of Advanced Paediatric Life Support Australia (1997) and is still an active instructor. He developed important collaborations with Prof Trent Woodruff (inflammation and innate immunity) at UQ School of Biomedical Sciences and Prof Jeff Lipman, head of the Antimicrobial Optimisation Group at UQ Centre for Clinical Research. In 2008 Dr Coulthard became Associate Professor and Head, Academic Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, UQ, and was course coordinator between 2017 and 2022. During that time, he introduced a paediatric online interactive curriculum, clinical bedside teaching and work-based assessment for medical students on the paediatric rotation.

As a clinician scientist, Dr Coulthard has been a CIA on an NHMRC project grant and in the last 5 years secured over $850K in grant funding to support his research. He has a casual appointment with Queensland Health and is an academic title holder in the UQ Medical School. He has 30 years of paediatric critical care experience and 25 years of lab experience in cellular and molecular biology and animal studies.

Publications by Mark Coulthard