About Dr Bradley MacDonald
Dr Bradley MacDonald is the clinical lead of TrialR, a program based at the Rare Care Centre of Perth Children’s Hospital that identifies critical enablers that are integral to catalysing the infrastructure for sustainable and equitable access to Rare Diseases Clinical Trials for children in Western Australia.
As a paediatrician and emerging leader in advanced therapeutics, he aims to promote unique care for children, particularly those disadvantaged by their rural location, through Adaptive Platform Trials with scalable, reusable trial infrastructure at the Child and Adolescent Health Service. His focus on rurally disadvantaged children with Rare Diseases is completed by his role as paediatric lead of the Rare Care Pilbara hub development.
Dr MacDonald holds paediatric leadership positions at Perth Children’s Hospital, serving as Education Lead for the Department of Paediatrics. He is also a current Raine Foundation Fellow, with additional support from the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund.
He is a lead medical coordinator for the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia and The University of Western Australia, recipient of their 2024 teaching excellence award, adjunct at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Centre, and continues to be passionate about rural training in paediatrics and rare diseases.
As member of the Australian Network of Paediatric Trial Centre, with a background in pharmacology and echocardiography, he is poised for investigating national and international collaborations to improve individual trial access.
As a consumer, he is an advocate for sepsis survivors and has been invited to shape national policy through the Australian Sepsis Network and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare.
