Prof (Keith) Chee Ooi

Professor (Keith) Chee Y. Ooi (MBBS, PhD, FRACP, AGAF) is a tenured Professor of Medicine at University of New South Wales (UNSW) Medicine & Health and Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia (NHMRC) Fellow, and Co-Director of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinic and Director of the CF-Gastroenterology and Pancreas Care Programs at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Australia.

He is an internationally and nationally recognised expert in cystic fibrosis (CF)-related gastroenterology/pancreatology and childhood paediatric pancreatic diseases. He has published >160 journal articles (first or senior author in over 50% of these publications) and has authored international, authoritative textbook chapters in gastroenterology, CF and pancreatology. He has secured >AUD$14 million in international and national research funding. He is listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Standford/Elsevier) for 2023 and 2024.