Rate My Professor Alice Rogan

Dr Alice Rogan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery and Critical Care at the University of Otago, Wellington, within the Faculty of Medicine. She earned her BSc (Hons) in Sports Science from the University of Loughborough, investigating the effects of exercise on post-prandial hypertriglyceridemia, an MBChB from the University of Birmingham in the UK, and a PhD from the University of Otago. Her doctoral thesis, titled 'Can the addition of biomarkers improve clinical pathways for adult patients who present to the emergency department with suspected traumatic brain injury?', centered on the diagnostic utility of biomarkers in traumatic brain injury (TBI) management. Rogan currently works part-time as an Emergency Department Registrar at Wellington Regional Hospital. Her career includes two years as an academic foundation doctor in Coventry, UK, one year as a medical registrar in Auckland, New Zealand starting in 2015, and serving as a match day doctor for New Zealand Rugby, covering international tests, Super Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, and Mitre 10 Cup at Sky Stadium.

Rogan's research specializations encompass the use of clinical biomarkers to rule out significant intracranial pathology in mild TBI cases and sports medicine, with a focus on concussion prevention and management. She supervises junior colleagues on research projects and teaches medical students in the University of Otago's MBChB programme. Key publications include 'Can serum biomarkers be used to rule out significant intracranial pathology in emergency department patients with mild traumatic brain injury? A Systematic Review Meta-Analysis' (Injury, 2022), 'Exploring senior emergency physicians' perspectives on the inclusion of clinical biomarkers in clinical decision rules for CT head use in patients with suspected traumatic brain injury' (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2025), 'Gender equity in authorship of emergency medicine publications in Australasia' (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2025), 'A survey of workplace violence in a New Zealand Emergency Department' (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2026), and 'Automated titration of nasal high flow oxygen in the emergency department' (Emergency Medicine Journal, 2026). She has secured major research funding, including a Health Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship of $146,673 over 36 months for TBI biomarker studies and Research for Life grants totaling over $25,000 for the BRAIN study on blood tests for TBI diagnosis.