Rate My Professor Patrina Caldwell

Patrina Caldwell serves as Associate Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. A qualified paediatrician with BMed, FRACP, and PhD credentials, she is the Program Director for the Master of Medicine (Child and Adolescent Health). Her clinical career includes roles as Senior Staff Specialist at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, heading the multidisciplinary continence service, and she has recently retired from the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network.

Caldwell's research specializations encompass evidence-based paediatric healthcare, with a particular emphasis on incontinence disorders such as nocturnal enuresis and daytime urinary incontinence, paediatric randomised controlled trials, eHealth applications, medical education, and patient navigation programs for children with chronic kidney disease. She supervises postgraduate research students and paediatric trainees across these domains. Notable contributions include leading the NAVKIDS2 multi-centre randomised controlled trial evaluating patient navigators for chronic kidney disease and the eADVICE trial assessing a web-based management system for urinary incontinence. Her key publications feature the Cochrane systematic review "Alarm interventions for nocturnal enuresis in children" (2020), "An Alarm Watch for Daytime Urinary Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial" published in Pediatrics (2022), and "A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Management Support System for Children with Urinary Incontinence: The eADVICE Trial" (2024). With more than 7,148 citations and an h-index of 37 on Google Scholar, her scholarship has profoundly impacted clinical practices in paediatric continence management and trial methodology in child health research. Additionally, she participates in funded projects via the Medical Research Future Fund and contributes to developing resources enhancing adolescents' digital health literacy.