CB Del Mar BSc (Salf) MA MB BChir (Cantab) MD (Qld) FRACGP FAFPHM
Professor Chris Del Mar is professor of public health at Bond University. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) from 2005 – 2010, and Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine, at Bond University 2004 – 2009. Before that, he was professor and head of the discipline of general practice at the University of Queensland 1994 – 2004.
Following a degree in biochemistry and botany (First Class Joint Honours), medicine at Cambridge University, and some early work in London hospitals (University College Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital) he moved to Mackay, North Queensland in 1977. He became a full time general practitioner there in 1980, working in his own practice until 1988, when he took up a senior lectureship at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He established an academic general practice (in which he worked clinically) at Inala, Brisbane.
By 2010 he had successfully obtained $7.8m funding for, and conducted and published several controlled trials in, health services and clinical research. He has published over 339 papers in peer-reviewed journals, of which 87 have been cited in the Science Citation Index a total of 700 times (mean 8 per paper, range 0 - 121 citation per paper, with an H-index of 15). He has published 5 books and 19 book chapters.
He has been successful in recruiting GPs into research projects, including NHMRC-funded research, and publishes systematic reviews. He is a well-respected leader in evidence based health care, both contributing primary data, and systematically reviewing the evidence for clinicians, with a wide knowledge of quantitative evaluation methods. He is the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Collaborative Group, was Editor of the research section of the Australian Family Physician, and an assistant editor for the journal Evidence based Medicine. He was Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) National Research Committee, and was a President of the Australian Association for Academic General Practice. In 2008 he was honoured with the RACGP's highest award, the Rose-Hunt medal. He was listed among the "50 most influential people in Australian general practice" by Australian Doctor both times it was published (last in 2010).
