Mahesh Ramanan

Mahesh Ramanan is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Caboolture Hospital and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, QLD, Australia. His main research interests include long-term outcomes of critical illness, pragmatic clinical trials and big data. During his training in Intensive Care Medicine, Mahesh completed a Masters degree in clinical epidemiology at the University of Sydney and was awarded a PhD from University of New South Wales under the supervision of Professor Balasubramanian Venkatesh investigating the evolution of trials methodology and recruitment challenges in critical care clinical trials.

Mahesh is the principal investigator of a currently recruiting MRFF-funded cluster-randomised trial of fluid therapy in diabetic ketoacidosis and is a chief investigator and/or management committee member of several NHMRC/MRFF funded clinical trials.

He is the current Chair of the Queensland Critical Care Research Network. Mahesh's vision for the Network is to bring pragmatic research to peripheral, non-tertiary hospitals which have traditionally not played a major role in clinical research.