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Prof Keith Ooi

Dr Keith Ooi (MBBS, Dip Paeds, PhD, FRACP, AGAF) is a Professor of Medicine at UNSW Medicine & Health, University of New South Wales and Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick.  He is an internationally and nationally recognised clinical and research leader in the fields of paediatric pancreatic diseases and cystic fibrosis (CF) gastroenterology, pancreatology and nutrition. Professor Ooi has published >150 journal articles (first or last author in 52% of these publications) and has authored several international, authoritative textbook chapters in gastroenterology, CF and pancreatology.  He has been awarded over AUD$14 million in research funding nationally and internationally, including from the NHMRC and NIH.