Adjunct Professor Bill Lord AM

Bill Lord is a registered paramedic who commenced his career with Ambulance Service of New South Wales in 1981, training as an intensive care paramedic and paramedic educator. He joined Charles Sturt University in 1996, where he held the position of Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) course. In 2004 he was appointed to the position of Head, Undergraduate Paramedic Programs at Monash University in Melbourne. From 2012 to 2019 Bill was Associate Professor and Discipline Lead for Paramedic Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Bill has represented Paramedics Australasia on the Australian Resuscitation Council from 2011 to 2016 and maintained practice as a paramedic with the Queensland Ambulance Service until January 2018. Research interests include clinical decision making and diagnostic reasoning, evidence-based practice, palliative care and pain management in the out-of-hospital setting. He is currently deputy co-chair of the Paramedicine Accreditation Committee within the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

Bill has also received the award of Member of the Order of Australia (AM).