Professor Carol Hodgson

Professor Carol Hodgson is Head of the Division of Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Deputy Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre at Monash University.

She has held NHMRC funding throughout her career, as PhD scholarship, Early Career Fellowship and currently with an Investigator Grant (2020-2024). Professor Hodgson is a clinical trialist ranked in the Top 1% worldwide as an expert on “Critical Care”, “ECMO”, “Early Mobilisation” and “Research”. She leads international multicentre trials for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. Professor Hodgson has particular expertise in long-term functional recovery after critical illness. She has contributed to international guidelines for the management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and COVID-19, including recommendations for the use of mechanical ventilation, high flow nasal therapy, oxygen, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and early rehabilitation.

Professor Hodgson sits on the Executive and Scientific Committee of the International ECMO Network (ECMONet), the Guidelines Leadership Group for National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce and is a Council Member of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists (InFACT). Professor Hodgson is a Specialist Physiotherapist in Intensive Care at The Alfred Hospital. She has led the international Trial of Early Activity and Mobilisation in critically ill patients (The TEAM trial), which is a physiotherapy-led intervention which has included 750 patients from 50 hospitals across 6 countries. She is leading the national guidelines for the rehabilitation of critically ill patients and has co-authored the Guidelines for Physiotherapists in the Management of Patients in Acute Care with COVID-19. Professor Hodgson is the Chair-elect of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physiotherapy, the highest ranked journal of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in the world.