Dr Christopher Andersen

Dr Christopher Andersen

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

BSc (Hon1), BA, MBBS (Hon), MClinTRes, PhD, FCICM

Medicine & Health
The Kirby Institute

Chris Andersen is an Intensive Care Staff Specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital and a clinical researcher with the Kirby Institute and the George Institute for Global Health. His research interests are in reducing heterogeneity in critical care syndromes such as hypoxic respiratory failure and sepsis and in the management of subarachnoid haemorrhage. 

Phone
+61299267111
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Andersen CR; Presseau J; Shea B; Marti ML; McCoy M; Fernie G; McIntyre L; Delaney A; Chassé M; Saigle V; Marshall S; Fergusson DA; Graham I; Brehaut J; Turgeon AF; Lauzier F; Tugwell P; Zha X; Talbot P; Muscedere J; Marshall JC; Thavorn K; Griesdale D; Lucas B; English SW, 2025, 'What to Measure in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Research—An International Delphi Survey', Translational Stroke Research, 16, pp. 49 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12975-024-01271-8
    Journal articles | 2025
    English SW; Delaney A; Fergusson DA; Chassé M; Turgeon AF; Lauzier F; Tuttle A; Sadan O; Griesdale DE; Redekop G; Chapman M; Hannouche M; Kramer A; Seppelt I; Udy A; Kutsogiannis DJ; Zarychanski R; D'Aragon F; Boyd JG; Salt G; Bellapart J; Wood G; Cava L; Pickett G; Koffman L; Watpool I; Bass F; Hammond N; Ramsay T; Mallick R; Scales DC; Andersen CR; Fitzgerald E; Talbot P; Dowlatshahi D; Sinclair J; Acker J; Marshall SC; McIntyre L, 2025, 'Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage', The New England journal of medicine, 392, pp. 1079 - 1088, http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2410962
    Journal articles | 2024
    Hastak P; Cromer D; Malycha J; Andersen CR; Raith E; Davenport MP; Plummer M; Sasson SC, 2024, 'Defining the correlates of lymphopenia and independent predictors of poor clinical outcome in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 in Australia', Scientific Reports, 14, pp. 11102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61729-5
    Journal articles | 2024
    Soares J; Leung C; Campbell V; Van Der Vegt A; Malycha J; Andersen C, 2024, 'Intensive care unit admission criteria: a scoping review', Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 25, pp. 296 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17511437241246901
    Journal articles | 2023
    Barreto SG; Kaambwa B; Venkatesh K; Sasson SC; Andersen C; Delaney A; Bihari S; Pilcher D, 2023, 'Mortality and costs related to severe acute pancreatitis in the intensive care units of Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), 2003–2020', Pancreatology, 23, pp. 341 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pan.2023.04.006
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dharan NJ; Sasson SC; Ahlenstiel G; Andersen CR; Bloch M; Buckland G; Hamad N; Han WM; Kelleher AD; Long GV; Matthews GV; Mina MM; Papot E; Petoumenos K; Swaminathan S; Withers B; Yun J; Polizzotto MN, 2023, 'Clinical and laboratory features of COVID-19 illness and outcomes in immunocompromised individuals during the first pandemic wave in Sydney, Australia', PLoS ONE, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289907
    Journal articles | 2023
    Galea I; Bandyopadhyay S; Bulters D; Humar R; Hugelshofer M; Schaer DJ; Abdulazim A; Alalade AF; Alexander SA; Amaro S; Amin-Hanjani S; Andersen CR; Anderson C; Anstey MH; Balla J; Bankole NDA; Bellapart J; Bhagat H; Blackburn SL; Brechmann M; Buehler PW; Burkhardt JK; Chen Y; Cohen J; Cooper PD; Coulthard LG; Cuadrado-Godia E; Dalton J; Delaney A; Doré S; Downer J; Dye J; Fernandez-Perez I; Flower O; Fülesdi B; Gaastra B; Gaberel T; Galea J; Gankpe GF; Garland P; Gentinetta T; Gram M; Graversen JH; Grover PJ; Guisado-Alonso D; Hasan D; Helmy A; Höhne J; Charlotte Hostettler I; Hrishi AP; Iihara K; Irwin DC; Jangra K; Jiménez-O'shanahan A; Keep RF; Koch M; Korja M; Kumar M; Llull L; Loan JJM; Lopez-Gonzalez M; Loch MacDonald R; Mahajan S; Martí-Fàbregas J; Medina-Suárez J; Moestrup S; More J; Morgan E; Muthuchellappan R; Nyquist P; Sosa Pérez C; Pillai P; Plesnila N; Javier Provencio J; Raith E; Ramos-Pachón A; Raymond SB; Regli L; Ruigrok YM; Saharan P; Samaniego EA; Schubert GA; Seppelt I; Sriganesh K; Suarez JI; Taylor J; Terpolilli NA; Testai FD; Tolosano E; Toma AK; On Tsang AC; Udy AA; Vallelian F; Vargas-Caballero M; Vercellotti GM; Vergouwen MDI; Waak M; Warming H; Whitfield PC; Kwok-Chu Wong G, 2023, 'Haptoglobin Treatment for Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Review and Expert Consensus on Clinical Translation', Stroke, 54, pp. 1930 - 1942, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.040205
    Journal articles | 2023
    Niznick N; Saigle V; Marti ML; Laframboise J; Zha X; Andersen C; Presseau J; Chassé M; Mcintyre L; Fergusson D; Turgeon AF; Lauzier F; Mayer SA; Lahiri S; Ramsay T; English S, 2023, 'Patient Relevance of the Modified Rankin Scale in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research: An International Cross-sectional Survey', Neurology, 100, pp. E1565 - E1573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000206879
    Journal articles | 2023
    Venkatesh K; Glenn H; Delaney A; Andersen CR; Sasson SC, 2023, 'Fire in the belly: A scoping review of the immunopathological mechanisms of acute pancreatitis', Frontiers in Immunology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1077414
    Journal articles | 2022
    Andersen CR; English SW; Delaney A, 2022, 'Made to measure—Selecting outcomes in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage research', Frontiers in Neurology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.1000454
    Journal articles | 2022
    Andersen CR; Presseau J; Saigle V; Fitzgerald E; Lamanna M; Talbot P; Delaney A; English SW, 2022, 'Prioritizing outcome measures after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: A q-sort survey of patients, health care providers and researchers', Frontiers in Neurology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.1068499
    Journal articles | 2022
    Hastak PS; Andersen CR; Kelleher AD; Sasson SC, 2022, 'Frontline workers: Mediators of mucosal immunity in community acquired pneumonia and COVID-19', Frontiers in Immunology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.983550
    Journal articles | 2022
    Malycha J; Andersen C; Redfern OC; Peake S; Subbe C; Dykes L; Phillips A; Ludbrook G; Young D; Watkinson PJ; Flabouris A; Jones D, 2022, 'Protocol describing a systematic review and mixed methods consensus process to define the deteriorated ward patient', BMJ Open, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057614
    Journal articles | 2020
    Quinn L; Tian DH; Fitzgerald E; Flower O; Andersen C; Hammond N; Davidson K; Delaney A, 2020, 'The association between hyponatraemia and long-term functional outcome in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: A single centre prospective cohort study', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 78, pp. 353 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2020.06.003
    Journal articles | 2019
    Andersen CR; Fitzgerald E; Delaney A; Finfer S, 2019, 'A Systematic Review of Outcome Measures Employed in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (aSAH) Clinical Research', Neurocritical Care, 30, pp. 534 - 541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12028-018-0566-0
    Journal articles | 2019
    Andersen CR; Presseau J; Saigle V; Etminan N; Vergouwen MDI; English SW, 2019, 'Core outcomes for subarachnoid haemorrhage', The Lancet Neurology, 18, pp. 1075 - 1076, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30412-0
    Journal articles | 2011
    Munier CM; Andersen CR; Kelleher , 2011, 'HIV vaccines: Progress to date', Drugs, 71, pp. 387 - 414, http://adisonline.com/drugs/Abstract/2011/71040/HIV_Vaccines__Progress_to_Date.2.aspx
  • Conference Abstracts | 2024
    Hastak P; Andersen CR; Zhang Z-H; Lohani A; Phetsouphanh C; van Bockel D; Shrestha S; Bass F; Hammond N; Tedla N; Kelleher A; Sasson SC, 2024, 'Delineating the immunological responses in people admitted to the ICU with direct and indirect lung injuries using single-cell RNA sequencing', in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 54, pp. 1139 - 1139
    Preprints | 2023
    Dharan NJ; Sasson SC; Ahlenstiel G; Andersen CR; Bloch M; Buckland G; Hamad N; Han WM; Kelleher AD; Long GV; Matthews GV; Mina MM; Papot E; Petoumenos K; Swaminathan S; Withers B; Yun J; Polizzotto MN, 2023, Clinical and laboratory features of COVID-19 illness and outcomes in immunocompromised individuals during the first pandemic wave in Sydney, Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.17.23293358

Medical Research Future Fund, Clinical Trials Activity 2022 CI $AUD 1 999 834, FLASH Trial - Fludrocortisone in ICU patients with aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Canadian Institute of Health Research Spring 2024 Grant Round Co Principal Investigator $CAD726 752. Establishing an International Core Outcome Set in SAH

UNSW Triple I Grant 2023, Co-Investigator $AUD 75 000  Immune mechanisms of direct and indirect lung injury 

UNSW Resource Infrastructure Scheme (RIS) 2023 Co-investigator $AUD 300 000 BD Rhapsody Single Cell Analysis System 

NSW Health Statewide Biobank 2022 Biospecimens Collection Grant Round 3 Principal Investigator $AUD50 000 Critical Illness, Inflammation and Immunology Biobank (CI3 Biobank) 

NSW Health Statewide Biobank 2022 Biospecimens Collection Grant Round 3 Co Investigator $AUD50 000 Australian Brain Injury Biobank 

The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization (TOHAMO) 2021, Innovation Fund Grant Principal Investigator $CAD 100 000 Establishing an International Core Outcome Set in SAH 

Canadian Institute of Health Research 2020, Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Co Investigator $CAD100 000, Establishing an International Core Outcome Set in SAH

Medical Research Future Fund 2019 International Clinical Trial Collaborators Program Co Investigator $AUD 902 752 SAHaRA Trial - Haemoglobin Thresholds in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Oxford University Medical Sciences Division 2019 Pump Priming Grant - Co-Principal Investigator £GBP 9469 ImmuneCAP - Immune responses in Community Acquired Pneumonia

Intensive Care Foundation (Australia) 2019 Project Grant - Principal Investigator $AUD 24 500 Tissue resident memory cells in community acquired pneumonia