Dr Tom Forbes
Dr Tom Forbes
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Dr Tom Forbes is a Clinician Scientist at MCRI and the Director of Nephrology at The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne. He sits on the Steering Committee for the KidGen Renal Genetics Consortium and co-leads the KidGen National Kidney Genomics Program to maximise genomic outcomes for patients with suspected kidney disease using research genomic sequencing and functional genomic models.
Dr Forbes is the National Nephrology Co-Lead of the Australian and New Zealand Chapter Neonatal Kidney Collaborative, a group with a mission to facilitate awareness and service development in neonatal nephrology care through education and coordination of local research contributions to international projects.
His current research interests include clinical renal genomics, functional genomics and neonatal nephrology.
Dr Forbes is the National Nephrology Co-Lead of the Australian and New Zealand Chapter Neonatal Kidney Collaborative, a group with a mission to facilitate awareness and service development in neonatal nephrology care through education and coordination of local research contributions to international projects.
His current research interests include clinical renal genomics, functional genomics and neonatal nephrology.
Dr Tom Forbes is a Clinician Scientist at MCRI and the Director of Nephrology at The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne. He sits on the Steering Committee for the KidGen Renal Genetics Consortium and co-leads the KidGen National Kidney...
Dr Tom Forbes is a Clinician Scientist at MCRI and the Director of Nephrology at The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne. He sits on the Steering Committee for the KidGen Renal Genetics Consortium and co-leads the KidGen National Kidney Genomics Program to maximise genomic outcomes for patients with suspected kidney disease using research genomic sequencing and functional genomic models.
Dr Forbes is the National Nephrology Co-Lead of the Australian and New Zealand Chapter Neonatal Kidney Collaborative, a group with a mission to facilitate awareness and service development in neonatal nephrology care through education and coordination of local research contributions to international projects.
His current research interests include clinical renal genomics, functional genomics and neonatal nephrology.
Dr Forbes is the National Nephrology Co-Lead of the Australian and New Zealand Chapter Neonatal Kidney Collaborative, a group with a mission to facilitate awareness and service development in neonatal nephrology care through education and coordination of local research contributions to international projects.
His current research interests include clinical renal genomics, functional genomics and neonatal nephrology.
Top Publications
- Forbes, TA, Nagasundaram, N, Starr, MC, Harer, MW, Baptista, RB, Menon, S, Selewski, DT. Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury: Diagnosis, Recognition and Prevention.. Kidney Int 2026 view publication
- McMahon, JB, Petrakis, N, Cheong, JLY, Forbes, TA, Hodgson, KA. Acute kidney injury in extremely preterm infants: findings from an Australian single-centre retrospective cohort study.. Pediatr Nephrol 41(5) : 1517 -1524 2026 view publication
- Desai, S, Forbes, T, Carter, SA, Kent, AL, Prestidge, C, Selewski, DT, Staub, E, Raaijmakers, A. Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury—An Australian and New Zealand Perspective. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2026 view publication
- Forbes, TA, Selewski, DT. World Kidney Day: Case Finding for Kidney Disease in Children - From Neonates to Adolescents.. Kidney Int Rep 10(3) : 641 -644 2025 view publication
- Mallawaarachchi, A, McCarthy, H, Forbes, TA, Jayasinghe, K, Patel, C, Alexander, SI, Boughtwood, T, Braithwaite, J, Chakera, A, Crafter, S, et al. Enhancing diagnostic outcomes in kidney genetic disorders: the KidGen national kidney genomics study protocol.. BMC Nephrol 26(1) : 51 2025 view publication
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