Professor Nick Talley

Distinguished Laureate Professor Nick Talley is currently the Head of Discipline of Medicine and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Transforming Gut Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a clinician, educator and researcher, with extensive experience as a leader in the medical and University sectors. He has held formal adjunct academic appointments at Mayo Clinic, University of North Carolina and the Karolinska Institute.

Dr. Talley is a neurogastroenterologist and highly successful original investigator funded in the past by NIH and currently by NHMRC. His focus has been on research translation, and in recent years the work has concentrated on subtle intestinal inflammation, the microbiome and unexplained gut symptoms. He has published over 1000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature. His work in eosinophilic gut diseases and their pathophysiological link to functional gut disorders has been ground-breaking. He has been listed on Google Scholar as Australia’s most cited academic with now more than 129,000 citations (Google Scholar, 2022), has been listed in the past among the top 400 most highly cited living biomedical researchers, and has been listed as the most cited Gastroenterology researcher (PlosOne 2020). 

Dr. Talley is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia (since 2015-2023). He is also a leading medical educator and the author of the highly regarded textbooks Clinical Examination and Examination Medicine. In June 2014, Dr. Talley was inaugurated as one of the first 15 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) and was elected to the Executive of the Academy.