Dr Tina Noutsos

Head of Global & Tropical Health Division, Senior Research Fellow

Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosophy, Charles Darwin University, 2021
Graduate Australian Institute Company Directors, 2021
Fellow Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2010
Fellow Royal College Pathologists of Australasia, 2010
Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery, Flinders University, 1999
Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne, 1996

Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:

Principal

Location:

Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital campus

Biography:

Dr Tina Noutsos is the Head of the Division of Global and Tropical Health, and a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies, Senior Specialist Clinical and Laboratory Haematologist at Royal Darwin Hospital, and an Associate Professor at Flinders University.

Tina’s research aims to transform blood transfusion decision-making and patient blood management, with a particular focus on First Nations peoples, in rural and remote populations. Her other research interests include snakebite, as well as thrombotic microangiopathies, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and immune thrombocytopenic purpura – immune related blood conditions which disproportionately affect First Nations Territorians. 

Tina’s research with the Australian Snakebite Project on snakebite-associated thrombotic microangiopathy has established the global epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, effectiveness of treatments, and long-term outcomes of this important complication of snakebite. Tina is a chief investigator on an MRFF grant ($2.99 million) funding a stepped wedge randomised control trial of full blood examination point of care testing in remote Aboriginal communities across the NT; a National Blood Authority research grant investigating blood transfusion outcomes in First Nations peoples admitted to intensive care, women and babies during childbirth across the NT, and NT patients referred to South Australia for heart surgery; and a Menzies small grant examining the mechanism of thrombotic microangiopathy in Sri Lankan hump nosed viper envenoming.

Tina is a partner investigator with the Blood Synergy Group, an NHMRC-funded program of research focused on addressing Australia’s national transfusion priorities, and the Northern Territory expert member of the multijurisdictional Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting System of Blood Matters, Victorian Government. Tina also chairs the NT cancer clinical trials unit committee.

Tina has a solid foundation in medical education and leadership and was previously Director of the Flinders University Doctor of Medicine (2017-2020), the NT Medical Program Course Director (2015-2020), and acting Associate Dean for Flinders NT (2016).