Rate My Professor Adam Buckmaster

Adam Buckmaster is Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He concurrently serves as Staff Specialist Paediatrician with the New South Wales Department of Health, based at Gosford Hospital in the Central Coast Local Health District. His career encompasses clinical paediatrics and academic research, with affiliations including the Paediatric Department at Gosford Hospital and involvement in neonatal intensive care networks such as the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network. Buckmaster has contributed to expert advisory groups, including those developing the Agency for Clinical Innovation guide on Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy in newborns and the NSW Consensus Statement on Newborn Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy.

Buckmaster's academic interests and research specializations lie in neonatal medicine, focusing on respiratory support strategies for preterm infants and newborns experiencing respiratory distress. He has co-authored 29 publications, accumulating over 570 citations. Key publications include 'Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy for Infants With Respiratory Distress in Non-Tertiary Care Centers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial' (Pediatrics, 2007), for which he served as the contact for study protocol inquiries; 'Nasal High-Flow Therapy for Newborn Infants in Special Care Nurseries' (New England Journal of Medicine, 2019); 'Incidence and Outcome of CPAP Failure in Preterm Infants' (Pediatrics, 2016); 'Supraglottic airway devices for administration of surfactant to newborns' (Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 2021); 'Survival in Very Preterm Infants: An International Comparison of 10 National Neonatal Networks' (Pediatrics, 2017); 'Prediction of outcomes of extremely low gestational age newborns in Australia and New Zealand' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2017); 'Practice variation in initial management and transfer thresholds for very preterm infants in non-tertiary NICUs' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2007); 'Need for intensive care for neonates born between 29 and 34 weeks gestation' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2013); and 'Preventive strategies and factors associated with surgically treated necrotising enterocolitis in extremely preterm infants' (BMJ Open, 2019). These works stem from multicentre randomized controlled trials and collaborative studies advancing neonatal care practices.