Associate Professor Rob Fitridge
MBBS MS FRACS
Contact details
Discipline of Surgery
Level 6A, Main Building
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Ph: +61 (0)8 8222 6973
Fax: +61 (0)8 8222 6028
Email: robert.fitridge@adelaide.edu.au
Biography
Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide and Head of Vascular Surgery at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Chair of the Board of Vascular Surgery from 2003 to 2006 during which time the vascular curriculum was developed. Co-editor with Matt Thompson of “Mechanisms of Vascular Disease: A textbook for vascular surgeons”.
Research interests include factors influencing the development of sepsis following major reperfusion injury, vascular surgery and evaluation of new technology.
Actively involved in the Multidisciplinary Foot Clinic at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lyell McEwin Health Services and provides outreach clinics in regional South Australia.
Clinical interests
• Most invasive forms of vascular surgery
• Effectiveness of endoluminal stent grafting for abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Outcomes in the diabetic foot and factors affecting wound healing in leg ulcers
Research interests
• The study of the role of matrix metalloproteinases in reperfusion injury following skeletal muscle ischaemia.
• The effect of inhibitors of MMPs on local and remote reperfusion injury is being studied.
• White cell activation in systemic inflammatory response syndrome following major vascular surgery is currently under investigation.
Recent publications
• Leopardi D, Hoggan BL, Fitridge RA, Woodruff PW, Maddern GJ. Systematic review of treatments for varicose veins. Ann Vasc Surg 2009; 23(2): 264-76.
• Cowled PA, Khanna A, Laws PE, Field JBF, Fitridge RA. Simvastatin Plus Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition Modulates Remote Organ Damage Following Skeletal Muscle Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. J Invest Surg 2008; 21:119-126.
• Barnes M, Boult M, Maddern G, Fitridge R. A model to predict outcomes for endovascular aneurysm repair using preoperative variables. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2008; 35:571-579.
Conferences
• National Public Sector and Aged Care Podiatry Conference, Adelaide, June 2008. An overview of the vascular journey of the high risk foot.
• European Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting, Nice, September 2008. Plenary lecture: A model to predict outcomes for endovascular aneurysm repair using preoperative variables.
• ANZ Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, September 2008. Sac volumetric measurement - post EVAR
• ANZ Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, September 2008. A model to predict outcomes for endovascular aneurysm repair using preoperative variables.
• ANZ Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, September 2008. Setting a multidisciplinary team to manage the diabetic foot - ANZ perspective.
Current students supervised
Lucy Brennan - PhD
Nadira Ruzehaji - PhD
Grants
• TQEH Research Foundation Strategic Initiatives Funding Program Grant. J Horowitz, J Beltrame, R Morris, R. Fitridgem C Zeitz, DP Wilson, B Sallustio, Y Chirkov, J Kennedy, P Cowled. “TQEH Vascular Disease and Therapeutics Research Group: Research program”. 2009-2011 $540,000
• TQEH Research Foundation Strategic Initiatives Funding Program Grant. G Maddern, G Jamieson, R Fitridge, P Hewett “Centre for Surgical Assessment and Training” 2009-2013 $1,250,000
• NHMRC Project Grant. R Fitridge, M Boult, J Golledge, G Maddern, M Thompson, M Barnes “Prospective evaluation of a model to predict outcomes following endovascular aortic aneurysm repair” 2009-2013 $1,036,925
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