Rate My Professor John Attia

Attia's career at the University of Newcastle since the late 1990s includes roles as founding Director of the Clinical Research Design, IT and Statistical Support (CReDITSS) Unit, Academic Director of General Medicine at John Hunter Hospital—where he established advanced training programs—and contributions to research centres such as the Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery and Information-Based Medicine. His research expertise encompasses clinical, molecular, and genetic epidemiology, with focuses on population- and hospital-based studies, genome-wide association studies for complex diseases like stroke and macular degeneration, biomarker evaluation, health services research, clinical trials, and network meta-analyses.

With over 600 peer-reviewed publications in journals including Nature, The Lancet, and JAMA, cited more than 15,000 times (h-index ~70), Attia has secured over $24 million in research funding. Key honours include the 2019 Laureate Professorship, 2012 Senior Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, and 2005 Dudley Homer Vose Award from the National Heart Foundation of Australia. He has served as an epidemiology expert for the Therapeutic Goods Administration and on the NHMRC register of Evidence-Based Medicine experts.