Dr Claire Frauenfelder

Women & Childrens Hospital & Flinders Medical Centre, SADr

Dr Claire Frauenfelder was awarded the Robert Guerin Research Prize for her investigation of outcomes for over 10,000 head and neck cancer patients admitted to intensive care in Australia and New Zealand.

 She is an ENT registrar who undertook a mid-training fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, with a particular interest in paediatric head, neck, and tracheal surgery.

 She also completed her masters investigating establishing aquaporin expression in human sinonasal tissues and exploring their role in chronic rhinosinusitis, and has published about paediatric COVID-19, laryngology, and validated the NSQIP database for use in Australian cancer patients.