Professor Paul Lawton
Honorary research fellow
Qualifications:
PhD, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, 2016; Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2000; Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 1992
Location:
Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital
Biography
Professor Paul Lawton is Professor & Director of Renal Medicine with Alfred Health and Monash University. Now an Honorary research fellow at Menzies he is a kidney specialist who has worked as a clinician across the Northern Territory since 1999, including four years as Director of NT Renal Services.
In his work at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, he addresses questions about the health care and outcomes for First Nations Australians not only in the Northern Territory but also nationally, using larger already existing clinical, registry and administrative datasets, including some data linkage. Where aren’t we doing well for First Nations Australians in the health system, why aren’t we, and how can we do better?
Research Themes
- Chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus and water quality in remote NT communities
- Indigenous Patient Voices
- eGFR study: accurate assessment of renal function and progression of chronic kidney disease in Indigenous Australians
- Distance and the impact of electrolyte results in the NT
- Evaluation of Danila Dilba Health Service’s chronic kidney disease case management program
- Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Kidney Transplantation (IMPAKT-2)
- Urine ACR ratio and the impact of contaminants
- NT Haemodialysis Linked Data Partnership
- Using ANZDATA to examine Indigenous patient survival
- Quality of Care and Outcomes of Chronic Kidney Disease in NT Department of Health-run Primary Care
- Socioeconomic outcomes and ESKD
- Dialysis Models of Care: To improve the quality and access to dialysis treatments by Indigenous Australians from remote areas by using a patient-centred approach to determine the cost-effectiveness of treatment models that include the health, social and economic impact
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Lawton, P.D., Cunningham, J., Zhao, Y., Gray, N.A., Chatfield, M.D., Baade, P., et al. (2015) Survival of Indigenous Australians on Renal Replacement Therapy: Closing the Gap? Med J Aust. DOI 10.5694/mja14.00664
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Zhao, Y., Wright, J., Guthridge, S., Lawton, P. (2013) The relationship between number of primary health care visits and hospitalisations: evidence from linked clinic and hospital data for remote Indigenous Australians. BMC Health Serv Res., 13, 466.
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Maple-Brown, L.J., Hughes, J.T., Lawton, P.D., Jones, G.R., Ellis, A.G., Drabsch, K., et al. (2012) Accurate Assessment of Kidney Function in Indigenous Australians: The Estimated GFR Study. Am J Kidney Dis., 60(4), 680-2
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Maple-Brown, L.J., Cunningham, J., Hodge, A.M., Weeramanthri, T., Dunbar, T., Lawton PD, et al. (2011) High rates of albuminuria but not of low eGFR in Urban Indigenous Australians: the DRUID Study. BMC Public Health, 11, 346
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Rogers, N.M., Lawton, P.D., Jose, M.D. (2009) Indigenous Australians and living kidney donation. N Engl J Med., 361(15), 1513-6.
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Gruen, R.L., Elliott, J.H., Nolan, M.L., Lawton, P.D., Parkhill, A., McLaren, C.J., et al. (2008) Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning. Lancet, 372(9649), 1579-89.
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Rogers, N.M., Lawton, P.D., Jose, M.D. (2006) Kidney transplant outcomes in the indigenous population in the Northern Territory of Australia. Transplantation, 82(7), 882-6.
Click here to view more Paul Lawton publications in PubMed.
