Rate My Professor John Stuart

Conjoint Associate Professor John Stuart serves as an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Western Australia, Master of Medical Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Newcastle, and Diploma of Child Health from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London.

John Stuart's career in paediatrics and clinical epidemiology includes roles as Research Officer in the Department of Child Health at The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine from 1969 to 1973, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology and Paediatrics at the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health from 1987 to 1995, Senior Staff Specialist Paediatrician at Hunter New England Health since 1996, and Team Leader of the Child and Family Health Team at Kaleidoscope Children's Network since 2004. A retired paediatrician, he remains a principal investigator on research grants and is affiliated with the Hunter Medical Research Institute's Immune Health program.

His research focuses on clinical investigations into health issues affecting Aboriginal children, especially the aetiology of chronic ear disease, alongside Aboriginal health, clinical epidemiology, and paediatrics. In 1972, he documented the prevalence of otitis media in an Indigenous primary school in Queensland, contributing early insights into the issue. Key publications encompass 'HEARING AND EAR DISEASE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN ON THREE QUEENSLAND ABORIGINAL SETTLEMENTS' (1973), 'Screening Procedures for the Identification of Hearing and Ear Disorders in Australian Aboriginal Children' (1974), 'Nasal inflammation and chronic ear disease in Australian Aboriginal children' (1996), 'The History and Epidemiology of ear disease in Australian Aboriginal children' (1995), 'The microbiology of glue ear in Australian Aboriginal children' (2003), 'Isolation of Alloiococcus otitidis from Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children with chronic otitis media with effusion' (2007), 'Alloiococcus otitidis: An emerging pathogen in otitis media' (2012), and 'Induction of inflammatory responses from THP-1 cells by cell-free filtrates from clinical isolates of Alloiococcus otitidis' (2014). He co-received the 2005 HCRF Research Award for work on Alloiococcus otitidis in Aboriginal children's ear disease.