Elisabeth Hodson
Elisabeth completed her medical studies at the London Hospital Medical College in the University of London in 1970. After obtaining MRCP (UK) in 1973, she commenced her paediatric training in England. She moved to Australia in 1975 and trained in paediatrics and nephrology at the Children's Hospital at Camperdown. In 1976/1977 Elisabeth spent a year as Fellow in Renal Transplantation and Chief Resident in Haemodialysis at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In 1979 she obtained her FRACP and was appointed staff specialist in nephrology at the Children's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. In 1982 she married Tom Karplus and they went to San Diego, California for three years. There she worked for two years as Fellow in Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and then spent a year doing research on platelet receptors at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla. In 1986 she returned to Australia and to a position in nephrology at the Children's Hospital and at Prince of Wales Children's Hospital (now Sydney Children's Hospital). In 1989 Elisabeth moved to Westmead Hospital, Sydney, to establish a paediatric nephrology service and in 1994 she became Director of the Division of Paediatrics at Westmead Hospital. In 1995 Elisabeth moved to The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney and was appointed Head of the Department of Nephrology. Her research interests have included studies in growth and bone disease in children with renal failure. More recently she has commenced systematic reviews on nephrotic syndrome for the Cochrane Collaboration and a study through the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit to determine the incidence of nephrotic syndrome in Australian children. Most of her leisure time is spent bird watching in Australia and overseas. |
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