Allison Hempenstall
Allison is a medical doctor, researcher and educator. She is a fellow with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and has been working throughout the remote Torres Strait in Australia for the past four years. Allison currently works as both a primary care physician and public health medical officer for the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Allison was awarded a Fulbright Queensland Scholarship to undertake her Masters of Public Health specialising in global health with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2020, where she received the 2021 James H. Ware Award for Public Health Practice.
Amanda Harley
Amanda is the State-wide Paediatric Sepsis Clinical Nurse Consultant and co-ordinator of a paediatric sepsis RCT investigating fluid resuscitation. Amanda is the paediatric nursing representative on the Queensland Sepsis Steering Committee and Global Sepsis Alliance Advanced Paediatric and Nursing platform member. Amanda’s PhD investigated recognition and management of paediatric sepsis in the ED. Her current role has her involved in the development, implementation, education and evaluation of a state-wide paediatric sepsis pathway in Emergency Departments (ED) and inpatient units throughout QLD. Amanda is passionate about sepsis recognition and management and the roles nurses' play. She has been involved in and instigated a number of research projects and is the recipient of multiple research grants.
Amy Keir
A/Professor Amy Keir is a Consultant Neonatologist at Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, and an NHMRC Early Career Fellow with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the University of Adelaide. Her PhD was in neonatal transfusion practice and she remains committed to the effective use of data to understand clinical practice. Amy’s research interest areas are in transfusion, human milk and quality improvement.
Ben Symon
Ben Symon is a paediatric emergency physician and simulation consultant working at The Prince Charles Hospital and Queensland Children's Hospital's simulation service. He is co-producer of the simulation podcast Simulcast and international faculty for the Debriefing Academy. He remains fascinated at the ways healthcare systems can connect and sometimes disconnect us with our colleagues and patients.
Bhavesh Patel
Bhavesh Patel – paediatric surgeon, tech geek and training calligrapher. Interested in new ways to teach the old tricks to new dogs in half the time.
Bindu Bali
Bindu is a Paediatrician working at Sunshine Emergency Department in Melbourne. She has spent 10 years working for the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service in Melbourne and has a Diploma in Forensic Medicine. Bindu grew up in the NHS and the phrase "safeguarding is everyone's business" summarises her belief that all Paediatricians should have access to information and resources to enable keeping children from harm.
Bronwyn Griffin
Dr Griffin is a Senior Research Fellow with Griffith University NHMRC CRE in Wiser Wound Care, and bases her work out of the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Her research is based on her clinical expertise as a paediatric emergency nurse of over 20 years across multiple Australian paediatric hospitals.
CII Griffin’s PhD research findings have been widely cited and incorporated into safety messages globally and nationally. More recently her burn first aid research has gained global recognition, culminating in a successful, internationally competitive US Department of Defense implementation research project, which she led as CIA. The research has reached 31 different countries, leading to several podcasts, news stories (including Forbes Magazine).
This year her research into burns dressings has also been successfully granted a NHMRC Partnership Project involving targeted implementation of negative pressure wound therapy into 4 of Australia’s major paediatric burns and emergency departments.
Dr Griffins successful program of research is a result of strong clinical engagement, targeting contemporary challenges faced by clinicians, patients/their families and the health care eco-systems in which they have to function. Using targeted implementation science in here research results in rapid translation into practice nationally and internationally.
In her down time, Dr Griffin enjoys time with her three rumbunctious children and time in rural Australia with family and friends.
Clare Skinner
Dr Clare Skinner is a specialist emergency physician with interests in leadership, advocacy, workplace culture, quality and safety, clinical redesign and health system reform. Her current areas of focus include transformation of the emergency department workforce, improving care of people with mental health symptoms, building positive culture in hospitals, and fostering diversity and inclusion in health services. Clare works as a clinician, manager and educator. She is a frequent contributor to academic journals, mainstream media and medical blogs on topics related to hospital practice and culture. Clare is a regular speaker at emergency medicine and leadership conferences. She was selected in the Top 50 Public Sector Women NSW in 2018.
Dinesh Palipana
Dinesh was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland and the second person to graduate medical school with quadriplegia in Australia. Dinesh is a doctor, lawyer, disability advocate, and researcher.
Halfway through medical school, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. Dinesh has completed an Advanced Clerkship in Radiology at the Harvard University.
As a result of his injury and experiences, Dinesh has been an advocate for inclusivity. He is a founding member of Doctors with Disabilities Australia.
Dinesh works in the emergency department at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He is a senior lecturer at the Griffith University and adjunct research fellow at the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland. Dinesh is a researcher in spinal cord injury. He is a doctor for the Gold Coast Titans physical disability rugby team. Dinesh is a senior advisor to the Disability Royal Commission. He is an ambassador to the Human Rights Commission’s Includeability program. He was a 2021 International Day of People with Disability ambassador.
Dinesh was the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service’s Junior Doctor of the Year in 2018. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2019. He was the third Australian to be awarded a Henry Viscardi Achievement Award. He was the 2021 Griffith University Young Alumnus of the Year. Dinesh was the Queensland Australian of the Year for 2021.
Elyssia Bourke
Elyssia is an emergency department registrar currently finishing off her final months of ACEM training in Ballarat, Victoria where she is staying to work as an ED consultant in 2022.
She has a strong interest in research and is currently undertaking a PhD through the University of Melbourne.
Her PhD work includes two clinical trials - PEAChY-O and PEAChY-M - which aim to determine the most effective oral and IM medications for young people with behavioural disturbance presenting to the ED.
These multi-centre trials are running across 7 Australian EDs so they are only feasible thanks to the PREDICT network researchers across these 7 sites, research co-ordinator Kate Klein and Elyssia's PhD supervisors Prof Babl, Craig, Davidson and A/Prof Knott.
In her spare time Elyssia enjoys hanging out at the beach with her partner and her dog Snickers trying to understand the physics of staying upright on a surfboard.
Twitter: personal - @elyssiabourke PEAChY trials - @PeachyRct
Eve Purdy
Eve Purdy is an emergency medicine specialist and applied anthropologist. She works with teams of all kinds to explore how culture impacts performance. She uses action research and simulation to empower teams to interrogate interfaces and relationships. In emergency medicine, trauma, obstetrics, COVID-19 response, and critical care she has supported teams doing their work better, together.
Franz Babl
Franz Babl is a paediatric emergency physician and the Professor of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the director of research at the emergency department of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and head of emergency research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia.
He is the founding chair of PREDICT, the paediatric emergency research network in Australia and New Zealand, and an executive committee member of PERN, the global collaboration of emergency research networks. His research focus is on multi-centre studies in emergency conditions in children.
When he does not do research his passion is building sandcastles with his children.
Jasmine Antoine
Jasmine is a neonatologist based at the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane. She’s passionate about medical education, workplace culture and improving patient safety.
Jason Acworth
Associate Professor Jason Acworth is Paediatric Emergency Physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital, is the Medical Lead for the hospital’s Rapid Response System and is Director of the STORK Statewide Simulation Service.
Jason has a long-held passion for paediatric resuscitation and simulation education.
In his spare time, he is the President of Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) Australia, is the paediatric representative on the Australian Resuscitation Council, is a member of the ILCOR Paediatric Life Support Task Force, and works continually (and usually unsuccessfully) to help others appreciate an often-denigrated art form: the “Dad joke”.
Joanna Tully
Jo Tully MBBS BSc MRCP (UK) MD FRACP
Jo Tully was a general paediatrician for many years before deciding to specialise in forensic paediatrics. She now works full-time as the Deputy Director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children’s and Monash Children’s hospitals and has a Master of Forensic Medicine. Her work with the VFPMS involves providing a medical service to children under the age of 18 years in whom physical or sexual abuse, neglect or emotional maltreatment is suspected. Jo has extensive experience in the clinical evaluation of infants and children who have experienced abuse or neglect, has presented evidence in court, published in the field and provides regular education and training in the field of childhood maltreatment.
Joshua Francis
Associate Professor Joshua Francis is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at Royal Darwin Hospital and principal research fellow at Menzies School of Health Research. He leads programs in Timor-Leste and the Northern Territory focused on mentoring, training, health system strengthening and research. In Timor-Leste, Josh works closely with the Ministry of Health to contribute to national responses to infectious diseases challenges, including COVID-19, TB and rheumatic heart disease. In Australia, his clinical work in the Northern Territory also brings opportunities to work alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities to find local solutions to health problems. He lives in Darwin with his wife Laura, and four children, Trudy, Gabriella, Zoe and Jack.
Karen Hose
Karen is a neonatal nurse practitioner working at the Royal Brisbane and Women's neonatal department. Karen completed her NP masters in 2014. She set up the neonatal retrieval service now known as NeoRESQ which became operational in March 2015. As an experienced neonatal NP, Karen now enjoys the challenges of combining inpatient responsibilities alongside working within NeoRESQ in her extended scope role. She has completed a Graduate Certificate in Aeromedical Retrieval in 2021, and is soon to complete her MPH and Tropical Medicine. Karen values any opportunity to support regional centre colleagues in building their skills and confidence for all things neonatal.
Liz Crowe
Liz Crowe has two and a half decades of expertise in grief, crisis, end of life care, bereavement work and staff wellbeing in pediatric critical care environments. Liz currently works at the RBWH providing wellbeing consultation, coaching, counselling and education for staff. She is in the absolute final stages of completing her PhD examining risk and protective factors for staff wellbeing in critical care. Liz is a published academic involved in multiple research projects nationally and internationally focussing on the wellbeing of staff and the impact of COVID on clinicians. Liz is a passionate and humorous educator who regularly speaks internationally. Liz is the successful author of ‘The Little Book of Loss and Grief You Can Read While You Cry’. She is a proud member of the St Emlyn’s education team and an active member of #FOAMed, and can be found on Twitter @LizCrowe2
Mardi Steere
A Paediatric Emergency Physician & Retrievalist by training, Mardi has lived and worked in the US, Australia & Kenya as a clinician, educator and director. She is passionate about strategic development of universal health coverage and value-based comprehensive primary, prehospital and emergency care, especially for the underserved - whether in LMICs or in pockets of less accessible care in any country. She is committed to multidisciplinary and cross-cultural healthcare leadership development, training and research. She lived in Kenya for 8 years, co-developing East Africa’s first postgraduate Fellowship in Paediatric Emergency & Critical Care (University of Nairobi) while leading AIC Kijabe Hospital as Director of Clinical Services. She has most recently collaborated with Charles Darwin University (NT) as faculty developing the Master of Aeromedical Retrieval. Her current focus is advocacy for equitable healthcare access for rural & remote Australians of all ages in her current substantive role as EGM Medical and Retrieval Services at RFDS Central Operations, implementing creative solutions to whole of life healthcare for remote communities and populations across SA/NT. And she continues to care for critically ill children in her spare time as a PEM consultant at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Adelaide, as well as advocacy for kids across Africa through multidisciplinary research & global engagement strategies. You can find her thinking out loud on twitter at @mardi_steere, @RFDS_CO_EGMMRS and @PECCAfrica.
Margie Danchin
Margie is a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne, and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI). As leader of the Vaccine Uptake Group, MCRI, her research focuses on vaccine confidence and uptake, particularly amongst high risk-groups and in low and middle-income countries, and on effective risk communication. In Australia, she is the chair of the Collaboration on Social Science in Immunisation (COSSI) Group, chair of the Social Science Advisory Board and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, NCIRS and on the COVID-19 ATAGI working group. She on the steering committee for the Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance (ARIA) and the Australian Expert Technical Assistance Program for Regional COVID-19 Vaccine Access: Policy, Planning and Implementation (AETAP-PPI) Advisory Board and is committed to efforts to improve vaccine confidence and uptake in the Western Pacific Region, and globally. Currently she is seconded to the Victorian Department of Health in the Engagements and Partnerships team to optimise COVID-19 vaccine uptake in hard to reach and high-risk groups.
Nitin Kapur
Associate Professor Nitin Kapur is a Respiratory & Sleep Paediatrician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital. He is also the Director of Paediatric Education & Director Of Clinical Training at the same hospital. Nitin is the current President for the Paediatric Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
Donna Franklin
Donna Franklin is a Paediatric Research Fellow and a Registered Nurse with more than 30 year’s experience in Paediatric Critical Care. She works with the Gold Coast University Children’s Critical Care and Emergency Collaborative Research Group. Her research is primarily focused on respiratory medicine and investigating oxygen therapies in paediatrics to reduce the need for escalation of care. She works across ICU, General Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine with her research and in recent years has performed several successful large multicentre international RCT’s. The findings of her PhD have been published in the prestigious The New England Journal of Medicine in 2018. Donna has managed two of the largest randomised controlled trials in paediatric acute respiratory care (PARIS 1 and PARIS 2), both completed in half of the expected timeframe. In 2021, Donna received both a NHMRC Early Career Investigator Grant and a Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship to concentrate on her ongoing studies in the field of improvements in paediatric acute respiratory care. With new and ongoing projects investigating the role of high-flow in children, Donna is focusing on the overarching principle, “if possible, keep children outside intensive care” and “keeping children in their community settings to reduce further anxiety on the families”. These projects investigate the use of high-flow in remote settings in Far North Queensland, implementation of highflow in regional hospitals, individual titrated high flow and reduction of extubation failure of ventilated children. Donna has been recognized for her outstanding individual research performance with the appointment as a NHMRC grant review panel member, Co-Chair for the WFPICCS (World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies) Research Committee, several awards/acknowledgements including being in the top 3% in the country in NHMRC Early Career Investigator Grants, best performing University of Queensland NHMRC applicant 2020 and Best Oral Presentation at WFPICCS 2020 obtaining the PCCM Awards for Trainees & Early Investigators for medical/nursing/allied health professionals. As an early career researcher Donna is continuing to build on strong collaborations with PREDICT and international collaborations with India, Bangladesh and China for future research.
Liz Cotterell
Liz Cotterell trained and worked as PEM consultant at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick. In 2010 a vocational calling to take the road less travelled into the country led to a job combining General Paediatrics and Academia to Armidale, northern NSW. Teaching the next generation of doctors in a rural clinical school and working at a regional hospital has given her the chance to see what life is like for those for whom distance is a real determinant of health outcomes. Her passion for medical education and rural and regional health care are founded on experience of the difference that a small group of dedicated people can make to children living outside the big cities.
Challenges of a mid-life career re-orientation include adapting generalist skills from PEM and applying across the spectrum of neonates to adolescents and inpatient and outpatient care.
Life is good in the country where there is time to talk to patients and their families, spend time with your own family and fit in some bushwalking, gardening and beagle led sauntering.
Mary Freer
Mary is committed to creating a more compassionate world.
She has contributed to Australia’s healthcare system reform in a variety of executive and leadership roles over the past 30 years.
Mary has founded social change movements and worked closely with global health improvement leaders, clinicians and administrators in many countries across the world to bring about system improvement.
Mary's book Compassion Revolution: Start Now* Use What You Have* Keep Going* was published in 2021 and is available at https://compassionrevolution.care
Nandini Choudhury
Nandini is a Dual trained adult and paediatric emergency physician working at Logan Emergency who is a self professed crazy dog lady with 2 beagles named Holmes and Watson. She enjoys sewing while listening to true crime podcast. She used to be an avid traveller but covid has driven her to become a fabric hoarder.
Naomi Spotwood
Naomi Spotswood is a Neonatologist in Royal Hobart Hospital's Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (NPICU). Her interests include neonatal research and improving health equity. She is currently working towards a PhD focussed on improving the diagnostic process for neonatal sepsis. Naomi is passionate about improving healthcare quality for neonates, and is part of a team in Hobart who have recently set up a number of new quality improvement initiatives for neonatal care in the NPICU.
Paula Lister
A/Prof Paula Lister is the Director of Paediatric Critical Care at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH), Associate Professor at Griffith University and Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland. She is the medical co-chair of the Queensland Paediatric Sepsis Program. Her current research is aimed at improving outcomes for children with sepsis. Dr Lister is a World Health Organisation consultant and rapporteur for the standard guidance on clinical management of severe Influenza infections. In this role she developed, and delivers, the paediatric critical care content of the WHO SARI training course and she contributed paediatric aspects of the 2019 WHO Ebola Guidelines. She was previously a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and was part of the UK-wide Sepsis-6 roll out.
Sarah McNab
Sarah McNab is a general paediatrician and the Director of General Medicine at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. She holds honorary appointments with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (where she completed a Clinician Scientist Fellowship) and The University of Melbourne. Sarah’s PhD research compared intravenous fluids in children and helped lead international practice change. Subsequently, she founded and co-chairs CIRCAN (Children’s Inpatient Research Collaboration of Australia and New Zealand) which has representatives from 42 hospitals.
She is a co-investigator on the ARROW trial, a multicentre RCT comparing OM-85 with placebo for the prevention of preschool wheeze. Sarah also has the happy chaos of being mum to three primary-school aged boys: Jack, Hugo and Ted.
Scott Sypek
Scott is a consultant general paediatrician working in Adelaide at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) and the Refugee Health Service. He leads the Medical Education Unit at WCH, working to ensure education for trainee doctors remains core business in an environment of burgeoning clinical workload. He is interested in improving trainee feedback and supervision, using simulation to support interprofessional teams, and systemic changes to improve trainee wellbeing. His clinical interests include acute care paediatrics, infectious disease, refugee health and complex disability.
Shahina Braganza
Shahina Braganza is a senior emergency physician at Gold Coast Health and Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at Bond University School of Health Science and Medicine. She is passionate about “non-technical” skills in the health profession – including professionalism, communication and leadership.
She has a keen interest in Wellness, particularly in how it relates to individual and team dynamics and performance, and ultimately to quality patient care.
She is the founder of the oneED program and a founding member of wrapem.org.
Explore her commentary and contributions on shahinabraganza.com.
Vicki Tooditj Wade
Vicki Wade is a Noongar woman from the Goreng, Minang, Bibelmen and Wadjari tribes in the south west of Western Australia.
Vicki has worked for over 40 years in health and during that time has held many senior positions at state and national levels. Vicki has spent many of these years working in improving the heart health of her people. Vicki sits on the Close the Gap steering committee as well as a number of research and health committees across Australia. For her efforts Vicki has received two prestigious awards the CSANZ achievement award for working with First Nations people in heart health. Second the Sidney Sax medal for her outstanding contribution to the health system in Australia.
Vicki is the Director for RHDAustralia and hopes one day her long -time efforts will have contributed to closing the gap for her grandchildren and their children.
Jenny Proimos
Jenny Proimos works with young people in her role as an adolescent health physician in the Department of Adolescent Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. She received her fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston, the birthplace of Adolescent Medicine in the US. Jenny has a background in public policy and advocacy, and spent a decade working in the Victorian Government as a chief advisor on child and adolescent health. She helped establish the Academy of Child and Adolescent Health in 2017 and is the current President. She is a Past President of the Paediatrics and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and has been a Director of the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine, the International Association of Adolescent Health and the Foundation for Young Australians. She is very optimistic that the young people of this world will tackle the world’s great challenges of climate change and inequality and is committed to helping amplify young people’s voices.
Bethany Boulton
Dr Bethany Boulton is a Queensland FACEM who has turned her attention to the important topic of physician wellbeing. She co-wrote a chapter on physician health for the Australian bible of Emergency Medicine and sits on the QEDSAP ED Workforce Wellbeing Group. When she is not travelling the world attending Physician Health conferences, she can be found using ingredients such as black beans and zucchini to create the perfect paleo brownie much to the disgust of her two sugar loving children. Bethany dreams of living in a world where active wear bears no stigma and Physicians thrive, not just survive.
Simon Craig
Simon is an Emergency Physician working at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne. He has a strong interest in clinical research and is an active member of the PREDICT network. He wrote the Monash Children’s Paediatric Emergency Medication Book, and is an editor of the Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine. He is (still) working on a PhD on acute severe asthma in children, but is easily distracted into pretty much any other paediatric emergency topic, and spends more time than necessary on Twitter.
Amanda Ullman
Dr Amanda Ullman is the inaugural Professor and Chair in Paediatric Nursing, conjoint between the University of Queensland and Children's Health Queensland, and a 2021 Fulbright Future Scholar. Amanda believes that children should be able to receive medical treatment in hospitals, without harm. Her research focusses on improving the most common invasive procedure in paediatrics - the insertion of an intravenous (IV) catheter.
Joe Brumm
Joe Brumm is the creator of BLUEY, the number one children’s animation show that has taken Australia by storm. The show has broken the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s streaming records, clocking 200 million plays on iView, has been nominated for the International Emmy Kids Awards and has won many awards in Australia. Bluey is distributed by BBC in the UK and was release in the U.S. on January 22nd on Disney +.
Previously, Brumm built his career as an animator for 10 years in London where he worked on numerous children’s series. Some projects include the Bafta winning CHARLIE AND LOLA, working in Kenya and training local crews for the BBC/Disney show TINGA-TINGA TALES and being commissioned to create the short film THE MEEK which won at the 2015 Austin Film Festival.
Brumm now resides in Brisbane, Australia where he has founded Studio Joho, who produce animation for the likes of CollegeHumor, New Form Digital, GOMA and others.
BLUEY EPISODES: Link to follow
Please find articles about BLUEY below:
The Guardian – BLUEY: HOW AUSTRALIA FELL IN LOVE WITH A CARTOON BLUE HEELER PUPPY AND HER FAMILY
“The result is an offbeat, hilarious and tender show that captures the joy and frustration of parenthood in equal measure.”
The Sydney Morning Herald – DISNEY HAS HIGH HOPES FOR BLUEY AS HEELER FAMILY EARNS ITS STRIPES IN THE US
"We had one of the strongest reactions we've ever had to any show that we've been involved in," said Henrietta Hurford-Jones, BBC's head of children's content.”
Junkee – HOMEGROWN HERO BLUEY THE DOG IS HEADING TO DISNEY PLUS
“Little wonder then that the show has been heralded by both Aussies and families overseas. It’s become one of ABC Kids’ biggest hits in years, quickly earning its spot as the most rewatched program in ABC iView history.”
USA Today – FINALLY! BLUEY ON DISNEY IS A SHOW KIDS CAN WATCH ON REPEAT WITHOUT DRIVING PARENTS CRAZY
“Bluey is just. so. good.”
Sharon Anne McAuley
Dr Sharon Anne McAuley, MBBCh, BAO(Hons), DCH, MSc, FRCPCH, FRACP, AFRACMA, is a Paediatric Emergency Physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH). She received her medical degree from the University of Dublin, Trinity College and has been a paediatrician for more than 20 years. Dr McAuley undertook her specialist paediatric training in Cambridge, London and Brisbane.
She holds several positions, namely Acting Associate Medical Director of Medical Workforce and Education at QCH, Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and Co-Chair of the Queensland Paediatric Quality Council (QPQC).
Dr McAuley has a particular expertise in Patent Safety and Quality, Clinical incident Management, Diagnostic Error, Open Disclosure and Quality Improvement. Her various roles involve reviewing and learning from adverse events, sharing those learnings statewide, supporting grieving families and second victim clinicians.
When not at work, she is happiest when surrounded by her family-three children, a husband and 2 dogs. She actively tries to seek out the joy in the small things in life.
Ari Horton
Ari Horton is a paediatric cardiologist who is concurrently undergoing post-FRACP training in clinical genetics. He is also the Clinical Lead of Schwartz Rounds at Monash Health, assisting staff to explore the social and emotional aspects of healthcare. Ari has a special interest in education and compassion and sees these as central to supporting sustained changes in paediatric healthcare and wellbeing for patients, families and staff.
In his clinical role, Ari delivers equitable and holistic cardiac care in Melbourne, Darwin and the Northern Territory, and Timor Leste, seeking to build local capacity. He is a keen advocate for shared-care and multidisciplinary models to best address the needs of Australian and international communities.
Alex Markwell
Dr Alex Markwell is an Emergency Physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Immediate Past Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate. She is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland and member of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Council of Advocacy, Practice and Partnerships. Alex is passionate about health care workers’ health, wellbeing, and work-life flexibility and is founding member of Wellness Resilience and Performance in Emergency Medicine (www.wrapem.org).
Dennis “Moppy” Conlon
My name is Dennis Conlon (Moppy) I am a descendant of the Kullalli and Koa tribes of Southwest Central West Queensland. I have been with IUIH for 8 years. I am Married with 4 kids under the age of 7 which keeps me very busy. I am currently the Acting Practice Manager at the Margate MATSICHS clinic which is a new role for me and my Journey. I have previously worked with the visiting Specialists and Allied Health teams in an Administrative Capacity. I also coordinated and was instrumental in developing the Surgical Pathways for IUIH mainly the Cataract Surgery pathway for our elders and the ENT pathway for our Jarjums. A highlight for my time in this role was setting u the IUIH/QCH Open Doors Project with the Queensland Children's Hospital. This was developed to ensure that our families can access ENT services across our network and increase advocacy through the public system.
Archana Chacko
Dr Archana Chacko is a specialist respiratory and sleep paediatrician currently taking referrals at the Queensland Children’s Lung and Sleep Specialists (QClass). Archana specialises in all issues affecting breathing, sleep and the lungs in children from birth to 18 years of age. As a mother of two young children, she understands how stressful unsettled sleep can be for children (and their families) and the struggles with handling children suffering with lung/breathing conditions.
Born in Adelaide, she now calls Brisbane home having been raised here since age 11 years. Dr Chacko graduated with honours in medicine from James Cook University in North Queensland and undertook specialist training in paediatric respiratory and sleep medicine at the Mater Children’s, Royal Children’s and Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, where she lives with her family.
Dr Chacko adopts a nurturing, child-focussed approach informed by the latest research and international best practice. She has published in several high-end peer reviewed respiratory/sleep journals and have presented research at international conferences. Dr Chacko also spent 12 months as a visiting scholar at the prestigious Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, California (USA) and is currently undertaking PhD research in improving respiratory outcomes for children with neuromuscular conditions.
Julia Clark
Associate Professor Julia Clark is a Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at Queensland Children’s hospital, Childrens Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and is Director of Infectious Disease, Immunology/Allergy and Rheumatology. As an experienced full time clinician with a strong commitment to clinical research she provides specialist support for infections in immuncompromised children and leads on infection control, antimicrobial stewardship, antibiotic related guideline and policy development and implementation.
She has extensive clinical and translational research experience in Paediatric Infection, antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and outpatient antibiotic therapy. Optimising antibiotic use is central to clinical practice and has been a continuing theme across much of her clinical and translational research. She has ongoing research interests in febrile neutropenia, fungal and viral infections in the immuncompromised, congenital CMV and mycobacterial infections and is enthusiastic about fostering and developing collaborative networks for paediatric infection related clinical research.
Elliot Long
Elliot is a Paediatric Emergency Physician working at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. He completed the majority of his Emergency training in Australia, and a fellowship in Critical Care in Vancouver, British Columbia. Elliot’s clinical and research interests are sepsis, airway management, and trauma. Elliot is an ultrasound enthusiast, and recently completed PhD studies looking at the use of ultrasound for fluid resuscitation in sepsis. Elliot is an executive member of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) Network, a member of the Australian Sepsis Network Paediatric Sepsis Advisory Group, and teaches Advanced Paediatric Life Support and Emergency Trauma Management. He is the Australian Chief Principal Investigator for the MRFF-funded PROMPT Bolus RCT and the prospective observational SENTINEL sepsis research study, and the Clinical Lead for the Safer Care Victoria Paediatric Sepsis Quality Improvement Project. He has two children who help keep his life in balance.
Anthea Rhodes
Anthea is a paediatrician, researcher and child health advocate. Anthea is passionate about health literacy, health promotion and effective science communication. She is the founding Director of the RCH National Child Health Poll, a public health and communications project that seeks to put the voice of Australian children and families at the heart of the conversation about common and current child health issues. She is also a co-host and producer of the RCH Kids Health Info Podcast. Anthea is a frequent contributor to conversations in mainstream media and on social media platforms on topics related to child health and wellbeing.
Anthea undertook her paediatric training at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, where she has worked since 2004. She has a masters in medical education and is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne and an honorary research associate in the Health Services Research Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Anthea is on the Board of Directors of the Australian Council on Children and the Media.
Brooke Charters
Brooke is a Paediatric Emergency Nurse and Research Coordinator for the Emergency Department in Logan Hospital, Queensland. Since completing her post grad certificate in Paediatric acute care and through experience in the Paediatric Emergency Brooke has developed a wide variety of clinical research interests, especially in cannulation, Mental Health and pain management.
Brooke’s role as a research nurse sees her coordinate research in the department, many that have collaborated widely within PREDICT, the paediatric emergency research network in Australia and New Zealand. Brooke was awarded an Emergency Medicine Foundation grant, being the first nurse in Australia to receive this prestigious award has allowed her to run a multi-site RCT examining cannula securement in children.
Daniel Engelman
Daniel is a general paediatrician and Clinician Scientist Fellow at the Royal Children's Hospital and Team Leader in Tropical Diseases at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne. His research focuses on the public health prevention of global and Indigenous child health issues including rheumatic heart disease, scabies and other neglected tropical diseases. Daniel is the chair of the International Alliance for the Control of Scabies, Interventions Lead for the World Scabies Program and a technical advisor to the World Health Organization on neglected tropical diseases.
Una Harrington
Dr. Úna Harrington is an Emergency Physician, who works at the QEII Hospital, on the south side of Brisbane. She is also the Lead and Co-Founder of WRaP EM. When not at work in the ED, she spends her time wrangling her mercurial toddler, walking in the local forest or reading a good book. She can be found on Twitter @DrUnaEM
Jane Munro
A/Prof Jane Munro is a paediatric rheumatologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital and lead of rheumatology research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She was Head of Rheumatology for nearly ten years and stepped down in 2020. Since 2021 she has been senior medical adviser in the Office of the Deputy Chief Health Officer, COVID19 Division at Department of Health. She co-founded Pandemic Kindness Movement. Jane is passionate about improving healthcare worker wellbeing and believes in building community, storytelling, spreading kindness and the need for health systems change.
Laila Ibrahim
Dr Laila Ibrahim is a clinician researcher with a research focus on getting children out of hospital through treatment at home. She is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and Clinician Scientist Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Laila’s PhD centred on a randomised controlled trial of children with moderate/severe cellulitis, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases which demonstrated that intravenous antibiotics at home was as good as standard care in hospital, preferred by families and more cost-effective. Over the course of the pandemic, she collaborated with other hospitals across Australia to publish the impact of COVID-19 in children. Outside of work, she remains (for now) the most important woman to 3 boys, one of whom still believes her superpowers rival Captain Marvel.
Helen Liley
Professor Helen Liley is a neonatologist at the Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane. She is also co-leader for the Mother and Baby Theme at Mater Research. In recent years, she has been involved in the team sport of systematic review and critical appraisal of the literature for the development of evidence-based guidelines in a variety of areas. These include neonatal and paediatric patient blood management (for the National Blood Authority) and neonatal resuscitation (for the Australian Resuscitation Council) and for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, whose Newborn Life Support Task Force she now chairs.
Janine Rowse
Janine was a general practitioner working in youth health prior to completing her training in clinical forensic medicine and becoming a forensic physician. She is a Fellow of the RCPA Faculty of Clinical Forensic Medicine and has a Master of Forensic Medicine. She has worked across both the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in the fields of physical and sexual assault and in delivering frontline clinical forensic services to both children and adults. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Technology Facilitated Sexual Assault, supported by the Australian Childhood Foundation. She is passionate about using research as a tool to understand emerging trends in clinical forensics and shine a light in dark places.
Sonia Twigg
Dr Sonia Twigg (FACEM-PEM) is a Paediatric Emergency Physician who enjoys learning about teamwork and how to look after each other (and our patients) better at work, playing with kids in the paediatric ED, playing with big healthcare worker kids teaching medical education and facilitating simulations, as well as creating pretty pictures with ultrasound in order to succeed at procedures with children. She is infamous for her youtube rap about IO insertion and her work with the OPTIMUS Bonus Bank of simulations for Children's Health Queensland. Lesser known is the paper she wrote for Paediatrics raising questions about how we do clinical event debriefing. She works for Gold Coast Health and Hospital Service, Logan Hospital, for Monash University as faculty in their Clinical Simulation Course and for AIU as faculty on their paediatric course teaching ultrasound guided needle procedures.
Michelle Boyd
Dr Boyd is a Brisbane trained general paediatrician with 21 years' experience. She has a special interest in the medical assessment and management of children and adolescents with eating disorders and currently leads the inpatient care at the Queensland Children's Hospital for medically compromised children. She is also part of a State-Wide service, providing education and training to medical, mental health and allied health clinicians using education platforms such as the ECHO project. She is currently involved with Children's Healthcare Australasia in a national project looking at hospital protocols for treatment of medically compromised children and adolescents to drive system improvements.
Craig McBride
Craig McBride - Paediatric Surgeon and sometimes reluctant researcher. Currently researching 'new' music (?math rock) courtesy of his teenage sons Haemish and Oscar. Collector of post-nominals. Likes to climb over fences, rather than build them, to see life from both sides.
Craig's experiences as a clinician, educator, researcher, ethics committee member, and father have all combined to make him curious about the ethics of research involving children.
Tim Druce
Tim is a registered nurse with extensive public health experience including paediatric emergency & intensive care, Aboriginal health, and coordinating a specialist service for children in or at risk of entering out-of-home-care. Currently, Tim works in statutory Child Protection providing specialist support to an Area as the Sexual Exploitation Practice Leader. He has an interest in the links between the healthcare and protective systems, and improving the recognition and response to vulnerable children at risk of harm.
Tim is passionate about improving integrative practice across sectors and building partnerships that allow better service delivery for families. In his spare time, he is studying a Masters of Family & Systemic Therapy and coordinates the healthcare response to major events & mass gatherings.
Jane Ho
Jane Ho is a paediatrician and adolescent doctor who works as a staff specialist at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN). She and colleagues started Trapeze in 2013, a service that supports young people 14-25 y with chronic conditions as they transition from paediatric to adult health care. Jane also works in the Eating Disorder Service at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and in private practice at Total Health Care in Bondi Junction. She was one of the founding members of SCHN’s Youth Council. Jane is a conjoint senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. She is currently Co-Chair of NSW’s Agency for Clinical Innovation Transition Care Network. Jane has presented and published on adolescent health and transition nationally and internationally.
Jane believes adolescents and young people are full of promise, and that support and interventions that enhance their independence, self-management and transition to adult health will, to quote the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing (2016), yield a triple benefit: for today, into their adulthood, and for the next generation of children. That sounds like good value.
Rosemary Wyber
Dr Rosemary Wyber is a general practitioner and researcher focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cardiovascular health. Dr Wyber completed her medical training New Zealand, her Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and general practice training in Aboriginal Community Controlled Clinics in the Northern Territory. She completed her PhD on policy options to end RHD in Australia in 2022 and was lead author of the RHD Endgame Strategy to eliminate RHD in Australia by 2031. Dr Wyber is a research fellow working on chronic disease risk assessment and management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research at the Australian National University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth and a practising GP.
Jessica Stokes Parish
Jessica is a clinically active Intensive Care Registered Nurse and experienced teacher and educator. Her PhD (Medical Education) was awarded in 2020 for exploring authenticity in simulation-based education. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, and has published in the fields of educational methods, gender equity and science communication. In addition to these traditional methods of communication, Jessica is a consistent and engaging science communicator. She utilises social media and mainstream media to transmit key messages about public health, science literacy and more.
Peter Snelling
"Dr Peter Snelling is a general paediatrician, emergency physician, and sonologist. He is passionate about exploring how point-of-care ultrasound can improve the patient journey and is the founder of the SOnography iNnovation And Research (SONAR) group (https://sonar.org.au/) . In his spare time he enjoys caravaning in the Australian outback with his wife and 5 kids."
Angela Smith
Dr Angela Smith is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and is currently completing her advanced training in Sexual Health Medicine through the Royal Australian College of Physicians. She has a passion for all things reproductive and sexual health. Angela currently works part time as a GP with Special Interest at Brisbane Metro North Sexual Health and HIV Service and is the Senior Medical Officer at True Relationships and Reproductive Health, Ipswich clinic.
From early in her medical career, Angela had an affinity towards sexual health. She is enthusiastic about educating health professionals and the general population in all areas of sexual and reproductive health including HIV and blood borne viruses. She believes everyone should have equality of access to excellent sexual and reproductive health services across Australia regardless of background, location or gender. Angela is dedicated to ongoing professional development and is currently completing her Masters of Sexual and Reproductive Health through the University of Sydney.
Geoff Pearce
Geoff is one of the clinical co-founders of CubCare, an acute after-hours paediatric telehealth service, and an experienced children’s emergency doctor whose current day, evening and sometimes night job, is as the deputy director of emergency at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.
Geoff feels immensely privileged to help look after children and is excited about the promise of technology in delivering first class care and support to parents looking after their children as part of a service that is convenient to them wherever they may be.
Outside of work Geoff is a husband and father to 3 school aged children. His basketball career being long over he now enjoys running after his kids and completed his first, and last, marathon in 2018.
Jan Geertsema
Jan Geertsema is a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist in private practice and at the Queensland Children's Hospital where he works in the Child Mental Health Inpatient Unit. He is interested in child development, psychodynamic psychiatry, neurobiology, families and groups.
Una Harrington
WRaP EM
Una Harrington
WRaP EM
Dr Una Harrington - Emergency Physician, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Brisbane. Founder of WRaP EM. Twitter: @drunaem
WRaP EM is a group of ordinary but passionate clinicians and medical educators who want to promote the concepts of Wellness, Resilience and Performance, from being considered the "soft stuff" to becoming a core part of Emergency Medicine practice. WRaP EM have created a website, blog, podcast and free open-access wellbeing curriculum aimed at promoting the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. This can be found at https://wrapem.org Our aim is to facilitate positive workplace change by providing a forum for connection of like-minded clinicians and by providing the tools for individuals to create meaningful change in their own workplace.
Charley Greentree
WRaP EM
Charley Greentree
WRaP EM
Dr Charley Greentree - Emergency Physician
WRaP EM is a group of ordinary but passionate clinicians and medical educators who want to promote the concepts of Wellness, Resilience and Performance, from being considered the "soft stuff" to becoming a core part of Emergency Medicine practice. WRaP EM have created a website, blog, podcast and free open-access wellbeing curriculum aimed at promoting the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. This can be found at https://wrapem.org Our aim is to facilitate positive workplace change by providing a forum for connection of like-minded clinicians and by providing the tools for individuals to create meaningful change in their own workplace.
Melanie Rule
WRaP EM
Melanie Rule
WRaP EM
Dr Melanie Rule - Emergency Physician, The Prince Charles Hospital & Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Brisbane.
WRaP EM is a group of ordinary but passionate clinicians and medical educators who want to promote the concepts of Wellness, Resilience and Performance, from being considered the "soft stuff" to becoming a core part of Emergency Medicine practice. WRaP EM have created a website, blog, podcast and free open-access wellbeing curriculum aimed at promoting the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. This can be found at https://wrapem.org Our aim is to facilitate positive workplace change by providing a forum for connection of like-minded clinicians and by providing the tools for individuals to create meaningful change in their own workplace.
Shahina Braganza
WRaP EM
Shahina Braganza
WRaP EM
Dr Shahina Braganza - Emergency Physician, Gold Coast Health Service. Twitter: @shahinabraganza
WRaP EM is a group of ordinary but passionate clinicians and medical educators who want to promote the concepts of Wellness, Resilience and Performance, from being considered the "soft stuff" to becoming a core part of Emergency Medicine practice. WRaP EM have created a website, blog, podcast and free open-access wellbeing curriculum aimed at promoting the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. This can be found at https://wrapem.org. Our aim is to facilitate positive workplace change by providing a forum for connection of like-minded clinicians and by providing the tools for individuals to create meaningful change in their own workplace.
Bethany Boulton
WRaP EM
Bethany Boulton
WRaP EM
Dr Bethany Boulton - Emergency Physician, Sunshine Coast Health Service. Twitter: @bethany_boulton
WRaP EM is a group of ordinary but passionate clinicians and medical educators who want to promote the concepts of Wellness, Resilience and Performance, from being considered the "soft stuff" to becoming a core part of Emergency Medicine practice. WRaP EM have created a website, blog, podcast and free open-access wellbeing curriculum aimed at promoting the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. This can be found at https://wrapem.org Our aim is to facilitate positive workplace change by providing a forum for connection of like-minded clinicians and by providing the tools for individuals to create meaningful change in their own workplace.