Associate Professor Paul Porter (MBBS, FRACP), Director, is the founder of Freeman Road Pty Ltd, an Australian company that specialises in early stage biomedical investments with an emphasis on global research and development collaborations. Freeman Road has investments in companies across Australia, South East Asia, Europe and the USA.
Paul is an experienced medical researcher, lecturer, director of training and paediatric physician at two major paediatric hospitals in Western Australia. He leads an established a research unit specialising in novel biometric diagnostic technology and algorithm development, with active programs targeting respiratory disease, antenatal care and mental health disorders in children and adolescents. He is the Chair of the Ramsay Health Care Human Research and Ethics Committee for Western and South Australia.
He is passionate about supporting advances in healthcare in the developing world.