Clinical Professor Tobias Strunk

Professor Strunk studied Medicine at the University of Lübeck Medical School in Germany. He completed his training in Paediatrics in Germany and Australia and is Board certified in both countries. He trained in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at King Edward Memorial and Princess Margaret Hospitals in Perth. Tobias completed his PhD on ‘Innate immune responses of preterm infants to Coagulase-negative staphylococci’ in 2012.

He has been a consultant neonatologist at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women since 2012.

• Department of Health/Raine Medical Research Foundation Clinician Research Fellowship (2017-2020)
• Strachan Memorial Publication Prize (2014)
• Miranda Imogen Suleski Fellowship (2014)
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians’ Fellowship (2012, 2013)
• International Postgraduate Research Scholarship of the University of Western Australia (2007/08)
• Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (2007/08)
• Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation (1994-2001)

• Murdoch University (Assoc Prof Andrew Currie)
• Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne (Prof David Burgner)
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Prof Robert Hancock)
• Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (Prof Ofer Levy)
• University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (Dr Donald Davidson)
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Prof Per Torp Sangild)