Professor Steve Webb

Dr Steve Webb is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital and a Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology and the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

Professor Webb is a trialist with over $60 million of research funding, including as a Chief Investigator on multiple NHMRC Project Grants and two Centre for Research Excellence grants. He has published over 100 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals including manuscripts in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal.

He is the immediate past-Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. He is the Vice-Chair of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists, which is a network of the world’s ICU-based investigator-led clinical trials networks. He is a member of the Executive and Chair of one of four Working Groups of the International Severe Acute Respiratory Illness Consortium. This Consortium aims to provide a coordinated global clinical research response to emerging infectious disease including potential future pandemics.

He is a founding member of the executive of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance which is a representative organisation of the investigator-led clinical trials networks in Australia. He has chaired the Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of Western Australia since 2006. He is a Director of Aalix Health Services Consulting.