Philip Clayton

Philip Clayton

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Dr Philip A Clayton - TITLEHOLDER.
Senior Consultant Nephrologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Deputy Executive Officer, Australia & New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry

Dr Clayton is a senior consultant nephrologist and epidemiologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He completed his clinical nephrology training in 2010 at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He then worked as the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry Epidemiology Fellow, concurrently completing a Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology followed by a PhD in kidney transplant epidemiology. During this time he also worked as a Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Sydney, establishing a Research Methods course for its medical students. From 2014 he undertook a year of postdoctoral research supported by a Sydney Medical School Medical Foundation Fellowship.

In 2015 he moved to Adelaide to take up his current clinical role and to a leadership position with ANZDATA. As ANZDATA Deputy Executive Officer he edits the Registry's annual report, supervises statisticians and the Epidemiology Fellow, and develops its technical capacity. He oversaw the recent modernisation of the Registry's database that is being used to support the BEST-Fluids and RESOLVE multinational registry randomised trials.

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Principal Supervisor Understanding the patient path to kidney transplantation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Lachlan McMichael
    2020 Principal Supervisor Decision making in kidney transplantation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Georgina Laura Irish
    2020 Principal Supervisor Decision Making in Kidney Transplantation: An Applied Bioethics Approach to Offers and Informed Consent Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Alison Catherine Weightman
    2020 Co-Supervisor The Benefits and Burdens of Kidney Transplantation for First Nations Australians Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Samantha Bateman

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