Adjunct Staff
Professor Yaseen Arabi MD FCCM FCCP Prof Yaseen Arabi's current appointments include Chair and Consultant in the Intensive Care Department, and Medical Director of Respiratory Services, King Abdulaziz Medical City; and Professor, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also the current Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) and the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP). His qualifications include an MD from Damascus University School of Medicine, Syria. After completing his MD, Prof Arabi undertook a postdoctoral period from 1992 to 1994 at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was appointed as a chief medical resident from 1994-1995. Then he completed Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin in 1998. In 1998 Prof Arabi moved to Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to take up a position as a Consultant in the Intensive Care Department of the King Abdulaziz Medical City. In 2007 Prof Arabi became Chair of the Intensive Care Department. He has an international reputation for quality research in the field of critical care and has published extensively (>140 papers) including three publications in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. One of these was in collaboration with the ANZIC-RC (Cooper DJ, Rosenfeld JV, Murray L, Arabi YM, et al. Decompressive craniectomy in diffuse traumatic brain injury. N Engl J Med. 2011;364(16):1493-502). Prof Arabi received several prestigious awards including the Barry A. Shapiro Memorial Award for Excellence in Critical Care Management from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), USA in 2011. | |
Professor Cécile Aubron MD PhD Prof Cécile Aubron is a French intensive care physician who was the ANZIC-RC's Senior Research Fellow (SRF); in 2010 and a SRF at the ANZIC-RC with the Blood-CRE from 2013 to 2014. In 2010 Prof Aubron was actively involved in the ANZIC-RC's "Age of Blood" research project including the feasibility pilot study in preparation for the large randomised controlled trial (RCT) and the publishing of the pilot study. Prof Aubron was an Associate Investigator on the ANZIC-RC's successful $2.7m NHMRC grant, STandaRd Issue TrANsfusion versuS Fresher red blood cell Use in intenSive carE (TRANSFUSE) RCT. In 2011 she was the co-recipient of The Alfred ICU - Monash University Research Fellowship. Since 2015, Prof Aubron has worked as an Intensivist in the Service de Réanimation Médicale, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Brest (Medical Intensive Care Unit, Teaching Hospital/University affiliated hospital) in Brest, France. Prof Aubron originally trained in Paris, France, and her qualifications include a Master's degree in Microbiology; an MD; and a PhD entitled "Study of the Escherichia coli metabolic polymorphism, involvement in adaptation and virulence". Prof Aubron has published 7 book chapters and 20 papers in international refereed journals on topics such as blood, infectious diseases, including pandemic (H1N1 (2009) influenza epidemic) research, and pharmacokinetic modeling research. She has delivered conference presentations in France, Senegal and Australia. | |
Clinical A/Professor Aidan Burrell MBBS DDU PhD FCICM Dr Burrell is an Intensivist, clinician researcher, and critical care ultrasonographer. He is an Intensive Care Consultant at The Alfred Hospital with a broad range of experience working with patients with severe cardiac and respiratory failure, thoracic transplantation and in the use of ECMO in the critically ill. Dr Burrell completed a fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation in 2012. He has advanced critical care ultrasound and echocardiography qualifications, and is a member of the echocardiogrpahy service at The Alfred Hospital. He is also an active member of The Alfred ECMO research and clinical care special interest group. His areas of research interest have included advanced management of heart failure in the critically ill, focusing particularly on mechanical heart supports such as ECMO and ventricular assist devices. | |
Professor Gilles Capellier MD MSc PhD Prof Capellier was a Visitor at the ANZIC-RC for one year (2011-2012) when he was on sabbatical from the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France where he runs a critical care and emergency department, is a member of the Board of the Medical Faculty, and a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine. His qualifications include an MD; certification as a Critical Care Physician from the Hôpital Claude Bernard, Paris; a Master of Science degree in Respiratory and Circulatory Physiology and Pathophysiology (Thesis title: Pulmonary neutrophils accumulation during peritonitis induced by cecal ligation and perforation); and a PhD (Thesis title: Pulmonary oxygen toxicity - demonstration of clinical and experimental tolerance). Professor Capellier's main research foci are Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), oxygen toxicity tolerance, and ICU management of ARDS including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). He is also interested in ICU organisation and quality-safety in care. His experience includes a year as a Clinical Fellow and a Clinical Research Fellow at the Toronto General Hospital, Canada. Professor Capellier has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters including in the prestigious journals JAMA and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He has also been an invited speaker at numerous international and national conferences. | |
Professor Marianne Chapman BMBS PhD DA(UK) FFARCSI FANZCA FCICM Prof Chapman is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide. Her primary degree was from Flinders University of South Australia, graduating in 1982. She trained as an anaesthetist in Plymouth in the UK and worked in Kenya for 12 months before returning to complete intensive care training in Adelaide in 1990. She then spent a further year working in the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem in 1993/94. She has a PhD from the University of Adelaide which involved the investigation of abnormalities in gastrointestinal motility underlying problems with the administration of nutrition to the critically ill. She has been the Director of Research in the ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) since 1998 and is the Chair of the RAH ICU Research Committee. She is also a member of the Board of Examiners of the College of Intensive Care Medicine and is involved in a number of other committees including the Formal Project Assessment Panel - College of Intensive Care Medicine. Her clinical research interests include gastrointestinal dysfunction underlying problems with the administration of nutrition, and glucose metabolism in the critically ill. This work is the result of a very successful collaboration with the Departments of Medicine and Gastroenterology in the University of Adelaide, the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Repatriation General Hospital, and forms part of a Centre of Clinical Research Excellence grant from the NHMRC awarded in 2012. She currently supervises PhD students undertaking clinical research in the ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She has published over 100 journal articles, received over $2 million in research funding, and has given invited presentations at national and international meetings. | |
Dr Tim Coulson BM BSc(Hons) PhD FANZCA Dr Coulson recently returned to Australia to work as a cardiothoracic anaesthetist. Prior to that he was a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Intensive Care at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK. His PhD thesis entitled "Acute Risk Change – measuring perioperative quality of care in cardiac surgery" was completed at Monash University under the supervision of Professors David Pilcher, Michael Bailey and Chris Reid. Dr Coulson’s research interests include measuring perioperative quality of care in cardiac surgery, renal outcomes after cardiopulmonary bypass, and donation after cardiac death. | |
A/Professor Anthony Delaney MBBS MSc FACEM FCICM Dr Delaney is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM). Dr Delaney has a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Calgary. He is a Staff Specialist in the Malcolm Fisher Intensive Care Unit at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr Delaney was on the Management Committee of the ANZIC-RC's ARISE study. | |
Dr Arne Diehl MD FACEM PGCertCU Dr Diehl is currently the fellow in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at The Alfred Intensive Care Unit. A newly created role to support the ECMO service at The Alfred in the clinical application of ECMO, teaching and research. He is the site investigator in a prospective study focused on the change of pharmacokinetics of common sedatives and antimicrobials through the initiation of ECMO. Other projects include an analysis of troponin values in trauma in the era of high-sensitivity troponins and the utility of tissue oxygen monitoring in veno-arterial ECMO patients. | |
Dr Andrew Flint MBBS BEng(Hon) BEcon(Hon) RAN Dr Flint is a Medical Officer with the Royal Australian Navy. His diverse qualifications include a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) and a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery. Andrew is currently doing his PhD in collaboration with the ANZIC-RC and Blood-CRE in the field of platelet transfusions, and he has published in several critical care and transfusion medicine journals. | |
Clinical A/Professor Craig French MBBS FANZCA FCICM Dr French is a specialist Intensive Care Physician and Anaesthetist. He is the Director of Intensive Care at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia; a Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Melbourne; and Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG). His research focuses on the effects of blood transfusion in critical illness; fluid management in critical illness; trauma; guideline development and translation of research; and the design and conduct of large clinical randomised controlled trials in the critically ill. | |
Dr Tomoko Fujii MD PhD
Dr Fujii was a Senior Research Fellow at the ANZIC-RC in 2019/2020. She co-managed a phase II multicentre randomised controlled trial of metabolic support in patients with septic shock, under the supervision of Professors Rinaldo Bellomo and Andrew Udy (Fujii et al, JAMA 2020). In 2018, Tomoko was a visiting researcher at the ANZIC-RC. In Japan, Tomoko was a Research Fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She obtained her MD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. In 2016, Tomoko was presented with the Best Investigator Award at Kyoto University for the Master of Clinical Research. She has been an invited speaker at international meetings including the Annual Conference of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the World Congress of Intensive Care. Dr Fujii returned to Japan to take up an appointment in an ICU in Tokyo. | |
Dr Dashiell Gantner BSc MBBS PhD
Dr Dashiell Gantner is an Intensive Care Registrar, and a member of the College of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal Australian College of Physicians. In 2022, Dashiell completed his PhD entitled Translation Of Australian Research Into Practice In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. He was the recipient of a Centre for Excellence in Traumatic Brain Injury Research (CETBIR) Fellowship at the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI). In 2012 Dashiell was a Senior Research Fellow with the ANZIC-RC and was actively involved in the TRANFUSE-RCT (sTandaRd issue trANfusion versuS Fresher red blood cell Use in intenSive carE - Randomised Controlled Trial) study as well as a clinical advisor on POLAR (Prophylactic hypothermia trial to Lessen traumatic bRain injury). In 2007, he was shortlisted in the Young Voices in Research for Health, Global Forum for Health Research competition. In addition to extensive clinical experience, he previously undertook a research fellowship with The George Institute for Global Health, China, working with the Critical Care and Trauma and Neurological and Mental Health Divisions. His research interests include neurocritical care, transfusion medicine, sepsis, and fluid resuscitation. | |
A/Professor Neil Glassford BSc(Hons) MBChB PhD MRCP FCICM Dr Neil Glassford is a Consultant Intensivist at Monash Health with appointments at Monash Medical Centre and the Victorian Heart Hospital. Having begun training in Edinburgh, London, and Glasgow, he moved to the Austin as a Research Fellow in 2010. He completed his PhD on the epidemiology of fluid administration in the critically ill through the ANZIC-RC in 2017, and his clinical training in Intensive Care Medicine at the Austin, the Royal Melbourne and Monash Children’s Hospitals. He holds adjunct academic appointments with the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. His research interests focus on critical care epidemiology and the provision of evidence for foundational ICU therapies. He is a Chief Investigator with the NHMRC MRFF-funded MEGA-SCORES translational interdisciplinary research group. He is passionate about expanding capacity for emerging multidisciplinary critical care researchers of all disciplines, and is actively involved with ANZICS and CICM in this space. | |
Professor Daryl Jones MBBS BSc(Hons) MD PhD FRACP FCICM Prof Jones is an Intensive Care Consultant at the Austin Hospital, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne, the Immediate Past President of the International Society for Rapid Response Systems (iSRRS), and Member of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACQSHC) Advisory Committee for Recognising and Responding to Clinical Deterioration Program. In 2015, he completed his PhD thesis entitled "The Rapid Response Team: Patient characteristics and resource implications" under the supervision of Professors Rinaldo Bellomo and Graeme Hart. The first area of investigation involved assessment of the uptake of MET services in intensive care unit (ICU) equipped hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, particularly in relation to published literature supporting their effectiveness. In conjunction with the Australian Commission for Quality and Safety in Health Care (ACQSHC) and Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcomes and Resources Evaluation (ANZICS-CORE), a 40 hospital study was conducted to assess: 1) the changes in MET call rates with time, and 2) the in-hospital mortality of MET patients in comparison to hospitalized patients. The second major area of the PhD involved assessment of the epidemiology of the MET patient. A seven hospital study was completed to perform a detailed analysis of the role of METs in end-of-life care planning in hospitalized patients. It also assessed the circadian activation of MET calls to confirm or refute the findings seen at the Austin Hospital. Finally, the thesis included several reviews related to MET systems and the broader concept of deteriorating patients. This thesis has provided new insights into the causes and outcomes of deterioration in hospitalized Australian patients, and will lead to strategies to improve the outcomes and safety of hospital admissions. | |
Clinical A/Professor Stephen Macdonald BSc MBChB PhD FRCPE FACEM
Stephen Macdonald is a Consultant Emergency Physician at Royal Perth Hospital and Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine within the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. Dr Macdonald's main research interest is sepsis. He is co-lead investigator of the ARISE-FLUIDS research program investigating early haemodynamic resuscitation strategies in septic shock. | |
Professor Colin McArthur MBChB FANZCA FCICM Professor Colin McArthur is a Past Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG). He is a Senior Intensive Care Specialist and Director of Research in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Auckland City Hospitals; a Member of the Board of Directors, Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) Board and Adjunct Professor (Research) at Monash University; Chair, Clinical Research Review Committee, Auckland District Health Board; Lead REMAP-CAP platform in New Zealand; and Deputy Lead for REMAP-CAP Global Operations. He trained in medicine in Auckland and is a Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA). He has been an author of >130 publications, including manuscripts in NEJM (14), JAMA (8) and The Lancet (2). He is a named investigator for >$40 million in research funding including 14 grants as first named / chief investigator. Prof McArthur has been on the management and/or writing committee of numerous NHMRC or HRCNZ-funded studies, including many ANZIC-RC studies (EPO-TBI, EPO-TRAUMA, POLAR, SPICE , ARISE, INFINITE, REMAP-CAP, STATINS, TRANSFUSE). His interests include research methodology and ethics, traumatic brain injury, sepsis, nutrition, and severe influenza; and he has particular experience in adaptive platform trials using Bayesian methods. | |
Dr Shay McGuinness Dr Shay McGuinness is Director of Research at the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand, and Clinical Director of the Air Ambulance Service, Auckland District Health Board. Dr McGuinness is the New Zealand representative on both the ANZIC-RC's Advisory Board and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG) Executive, and is also the Chair of the ANZICS-CTG Capacity Working Group Sub-committee. Dr McGuinness trained at medicine and surgery in Sheffield, United Kingdom. He has published more than 25 journal papers including articles in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He has been a Principal or Co-investigator on peer reviewed research grants exceeding (NZ)$2.9 million including 5 NZHRC grants. His research interests include randomised clinical trials in non-invasive ventilation and renal failure. Dr McGuinness is a member of the Management Committees of the ANZIC-RC's PHARLAP-RCT and Supplemental PN trials. | |
Professor John Myburgh MBBCh PhD FANZCA FCICM Prof Myburgh is an Enabling Grant Chief Investigator and a foundation member and past Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG). He is the Director of the Division of Critical Care and Trauma at The George Institute for Global Health and Professor of Critical Care at the University of New South Wales. He holds honorary professorial appointments at the Universities of Sydney and Monash. He is a senior physician in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at St George Hospital, Sydney. He has been involved in laboratory and clinical research since 1989. He has received over $18M in NHMRC funding, $8M in international grants, $1M in institutional grants and $8M in unrestricted commercial grants to a total of $36M since 2000. He published over 100 original articles, including 4 papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, and 20 book chapters. His research interests include catecholamine pharmacodynamics, traumatic brain injury, fluid resuscitation and endocrine homeostasis in critical illness. He has delivered over 20 plenary lectures at international meetings. Current research activities include large-scale trials of fluid resuscitation (CHEST), steroids in septic shock, glycaemic control and thermoregulation in critical illness. He has established postgraduate research programs at the George Institute for PhD and MPH students through the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney. In addition to his research activities, he has a long-standing involvement in education and is the current President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine. Within the College, he established an independent Annual Scientific Meeting in 2005 and served as a fellowship examiner for 12 years. | |
A/Professor Neil Orford MBBS PGDipEcho PhD FCICM FANZCA A/Prof Orford is Director of the Barwon Health ICU, a Board Director of the Australian and New Zealand College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM), and a Member of the Safer Care Victoria State ECMO Working Group. In 2018, Neil completed his PhD, "The effect of critical illness on bone metabolism and bone mineral density". He has been an intensive care specialist since 2003, and the Director of Intensive Care at The Geelong Hospital since 2008. He is actively involved in clinical research as a member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, the coordinator of research and clinical trials in critical care at The Geelong Hospital since 2003, and a member of the Barwon Health Human Research Ethics Committee since 2007. | |
A/Professor Rachael Parke MHSc PhD Dr Parke is the Nurse Senior Research Fellow in the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit at Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2014, and is currently leading a program of research investigating the effects of fluid management following cardiac surgery. She has published over 50 articles and been an investigator on peer reviewed research grants exceeding NZ$3 million. Rachael is the current Secretary of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Executive Committee and Chair of the ANZICS Intensive Care Research Coordinators Interest Group. Research interests include oxygen therapy, cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury and enhanced recovery after thoracic surgery. | |
Professor Sandra L Peake BMBS BSc(Hons) FCICM PhD Prof Peake is a Senior Intensive Care Clinician in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide and an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide. She is Chair of the Intensive Care Foundation Scientific Committee, Chair of the Research Committee for the Acute Care Medicine Discipline at the University of Adelaide and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG) Executive Committee. She has been an examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine for the past 8 years. In 2000, she completed her PhD in Medicine at the University of Adelaide in the field of sepsis. Her thesis examined the role of combination anti-cytokine immunotherapy in an animal model of septic shock. Her main research interest now is large-scale, randomised clinical trials in critical care. She is currently Chair of the Management Committee for the NHMRC-funded, CTG-endorsed Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation (ARISE) multi-centre trial of early resuscitation in sepsis. She is also member of the Management Committee for the NHMRC-funded, CTG-endorsed multi-centre clinical trial of Early Parenteral Nutrition. | |
A/Professor Vin Pellegrino MBBS FRACP FCICM
A/Prof Pellegrino is a Senior Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, with >20 years of experience in critical care. He is also the ECMO Clinical Services Director of The Alfred Intensive Care Unit. His clinical interests include circulatory physiology and control, lung transplants, cardiac and respiratory failure and intensive care medicine. He is the chief convener for the internationally renowned Alfred International Symposium on ECMO and VAD support in Critical Care. A/Prof Pellegrino was the inaugural Logistics and Education Chair of Asia-Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). He runs and assists ECMO teaching courses in Europe, Asia, Australia, the USA and the Middle East. He sits on the Executive Committee of the International ECMO Network and has published the position paper for advancing research in the area of ECMO management. He has published >30 papers on ECMO. | |
Clinical Professor David Pilcher MBBS MRCP FCICM FRACP Prof Pilcher has worked as an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne since 2006. He trained in respiratory and general medicine in the United Kingdom before coming to Australia to complete his Intensive Care fellowship in 2002. Prof Pilcher is Director of the ANZICS Adult Patient Database and Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (ANZICS-CORE). He holds an Intensive Care Practitioner fellowship with Monash University. His research interests include organ donation, lung transplantation and the epidemiology of intensive care unit outcomes. | |
A/Professor Jeff Presneill MBBS PhD MBiostat PGDipEcho FRACP FCICM Dr Presneill is a Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital; an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne; and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. Dr Presneill trained in respiratory medicine and intensive care then completed a doctoral thesis on aspects of the human immune response in severe sepsis and septic shock. Dr Presneill also undertook training in biostatistics and is an enthusiastic supporter of the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia. He is involved in several large clinical studies through the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC). | |
Professor Michael Reade MBBS BSc MPH DPhil DMCC DIMCRCSEd PGCertAME AFRACMA FANZCA FCICM Prof Reade became the inaugural Australian Defence Force (ADF) Professor and Chair of Military Medicine and Surgery at the University of Queensland in 2011. An anaesthetist and intensivist, he also holds a clinical appointment at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and military appointments at both the ADF's Joint Health Command and the 2nd General Health Battalion of the Australian Army. He has >100 publications across the breadth of intensive care research, from applied molecular biology to statistical methodology and clinical trials. He is one of few intensivists with postgraduate qualifications in both basic science (doctorate University of Oxford) and statistics / epidemiology (MPH University of Pittsburgh). He has established collaborations with military medical research groups in the UK and USA looking at trauma systems design and novel therapies for blast injury and exsanguinating haemorrhage. In 2015 he completed a 15-hospital randomized controlled trial of dexmedetomidine as a treatment for critical illness agitated delirium. He is a chief investigator on NHMRC project grants totaling approx. $12M. He has deployed to Bosnia and Kosovo (on attachment to the British Airborne Brigade) and to East Timor and the Solomon Islands. In 2009 he was the clinical director of the NATO hospital, Tarin Kot, Afghanistan; in 2013 he was the Officer Commanding the Australian Specialist Health Group at the US Navy hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan; and in 2015 he was the first Director of Clinical Services of an ADF hospital deployed on war-like operations. With the rank of Colonel, he is the Director of Clinical Services of the Australian Regular Army's only deployable hospital. | |
Professor Kathryn Rowan PhD
Prof Rowan is the founder (1994) and Director of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC UK) and its registered Clinical Trials Unit. ICNARC facilitates enhancements in critical care organisation and practice, through a broad programme of audit/research which aims to improve critical care and the experiences and outcomes of critical care. ICNARC also co-ordinates national clinical audits and a wide portfolio of methodological and evaluative research. She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in the Division of Research Strategy, University College London. While on sabbatical, Prof Rowan visited the ANZIC-RC in November/December 2013 then worked at the ANZIC-RC as Professor of Intensive Care Research from September to December 2015. | |
A/Professor Matthieu Schmidt MD AdvMSc(RespPhys) Dr Schmidt is an intensive care specialist in the Service de Réanimation Médicale, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (iCAN), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, France. His qualifications include an Advanced Master's degree in Respiratory Physiology (2009), a Diploma of Cardiac Ultrasonography (2010) and a Diploma in Artificial Ventilation (2008). For three years Dr Schmidt worked as an intensive care registrar in the medical intensive care units in La Pitié Salpêtrière hospital in Paris led by Pr Jean Chastre, Pr Alain Combes and Pr Thomas Similowski. He is a member of the French Speaking Society of Intensive Care (SRLF) and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Dr Schmidt's research interests include patient-ventilator interaction and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and he has >30 papers published in international refereed journals and 4 book chapters on these topics. Dr Schmidt was a Visiting Researcher at the ANZIC-RC from 2013 to 2014. | |
Dr Paul Secombe BMBS(Hons) MClinSc FCICM
Dr Paul Secombe is an Intensive Care Consultant at the Alice Springs Hospital in the Central Australia Health Service, Northern Territory (NT). He is also a Specialist Clinician, Organ Donation Specialist (Medical) with DonateLife NT, and is a Fellow of and a Supervisor of Training with the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM). Dr Secombe is an Adjunct Lecturer in both the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University and the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Dr Secombe was the Northern Territory Clinical Educator of the Year in 2017. His research foci include functional outcomes in critically ill patients particularly in remote areas, critically ill obese patients, and acute kidney injury. | |
A/Professor Ian Seppelt MBBS BMedSc FANZCA FCICM Dr Seppelt is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The George Institute for International Health, Sydney; and Advanced Scholar and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University. He is a Board Member and Secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG). He is a Management Committee member of the ANZIC-RC's INFINITE and SPICE studies, the Bacteraemic Load in Septic Shock (BLISS) study through the NHMRC CCRE in Critical Infection, and the ANZICS-CTG Point Prevalence Program. He is the ANZ lead for the international Selective Decontamination of the Digest Tract (SuDDICU) research program. Dr Seppelt's research interests include clinical research ethics, the clinical management of severe sepsis, neurotrauma, intensive care sedation and echocardiography in intensive care. He is a part owner of a very nice vineyard and is professional horse transport technician for his children. | |
Professor Markus Skrifvars MD PhD FCICM EDIC Markus Skrifvars is a Specialist in Intensive Care at the 18 bed ICU at Helsinki University Hospital and Professor of Emergency Care at the University of Helsinki. From 2016-2017 Prof Skirfvars completed a one year senior research fellowship at the ANZIC Research Centre in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. After completing his anaesthesia training in 2008, Markus Skrifvars completed an ICU fellowship, training at Liverpool Hospital in NSW, Australia in 2008-2011. After that he trained in Neuro Anaesthesia and Neuro Intensive Care as well as General Intensive Care at Helsinki University Hospital. His research has focused on ICU care of patients with cardiac arrest, as well as traumatic brain injury. He has >65 original research papers published to date. Prof Skrifvars supervises several PhDs in both clinical, epidemiological and in experimental animal work. He was the national principal investigator in Finland for the ANZICS-CTG EPO-TBI trial (Lancet 2015). He is a member of the steering group for the TTH48 trial, a trial comparing 24 and 48 hours of therapeutic hypothermia treatment following cardiac arrest, as well the senior investigator for the COMACARE pilot trial focusing on oxygen, carbon dioxide and blood pressure targets in cardiac arrest patients. While at the ANZIC Research Centre he focused on the post hoc studies of the EPO-TBI trial, as well as several other projects. | |
Mr Mick Stephenson ASM Mr Mick Stephenson is Regional Manager and MICA Paramedic with Ambulance Victoria (AV) and a Sessional Lecturer at Monash University to MICA paramedic and AAV students. He is also a current Board Member (Director) and Committee Chair of the Emergency Services and State Superannuation Fund. Since 1996, he has worked for Ambulance Victoria with responsibilities including management of all aspects of ambulance in Gippsland , AV liaison role for major clinical trials of international significance; delivery of MICA road ambulance response for the Melbourne Metropolitan region; management of industrial relations issues for the MICA group and AV generally; serving on key AV committees such as Medical Advisory Committee, AV Board of Studies and the Credentialing Committee; provision of reports on MICA status and activity for the CEO, Committee of Management and Government; and to develop relationships and mentoring processes for rural MICA Team Managers with the metropolitan MICA Team Managers. Mr Stephenson has qualifications in emergency medicine and intensive care nursing. Mr Stephenson is a Management Committee Member on the ANZIC-RC's POLAR-RCT (Prophylactic Hypothermia Trial to Lessen Traumatic Brain Injury - Randomised Controlled Trial). In 2015, Mick was the recipient of an Ambulance Service Medal, in the Australia Day honours, for his distinguished service to Ambulance Victoria. | |
Professor Ravi Tiruvoipati Prof Tiruvoipati completed his PhD entitled Clinical effects and management of hypercapnia in critically ill patients under the supervision of Professors Michael Bailey and David Pilcher. He is an Intensivist and Director of Research in the Department of Intensive Care at the Frankston Hospital, and an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, School of Public Health at Monash University. | |
Dr Ryo Ueno MD
Dr Ryo Ueno is an Intensive Care Trainee at the Eastern Health in Melbourne. Since 2018, he has been an adjunct research fellow at the ANZIC-RC, working on multiple projects under the supervision of Prof David Pilcher. His research interest includes prediction and prevention of adverse events in the ICU, such as in-hospital cardiac arrest and prolonged ventilation. He obtained his MD from the University of Tokyo with Dean’s award in 2016. Upon completion of his residency in Japan, he relocated to Melbourne, full of hope, with a research grant by Masayoshi-Son foundation. | |
Ms Patricia Williams RGN BNP (Int Care) Ms Tricia Williams is a Donation Specialist - Nursing Coordinator at DonateLife South Australila. Previously she was the Research Project Nurse and Blood Gas Laboratory Manager, Department of Intensive Care Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH), South Australia, and Affiliate Lecturer in the Discipline of Acute Care, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Science at the University of Adelaide. Ms Williams was an Investigator and/or Management Committee Member on several ANZIC-RC studies including the ARISE randomised controlled trial and the ARISE health economic evaluation, STATINS, INFINITE and Fresh Blood studies. Ms Williams's qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing Practice and several advanced courses in critical care nursing, and she is also a Registered Nurse. Since 1997, she has been involved in clinical research in intensive care at TQEH, initially as a Clinical Research Nurse, and since 2006 as the Research Project Nurse and Blood Gas Laboratory Manager. During that time, Ms Williams has been an Investigator on 38 research studies. Ms Williams has been an author/investigator on a number of publications, mostly multi-centre clinical intensive care research, including publications in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. She was an invited presenter at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG) Annual Scientific Meeting in 2010 and 2011. Ms Williams is an Executive Committee Member of the Intensive Care Research Coordinators Interest Group (IRCIG), and is also a member of the ANZICS-CTG and the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. | |
Dr James Winearls BSc(Hons) MBBS MRCP FCICM
Dr James Winearls is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He has special interests in cardiothoracic intensive care, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and the coagulopathy associated with critical bleeding. He has been involved in research projects related to the coagulopathy of critical bleeding. He is Co- Chief Investigator for FEISTY II, a multi-centre randomised controlled trial investigating fibrinogen replacement in severe traumatic haemorrhage. He is also the site investigator for several recent and currently recruiting Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG) trials. He is on the grant review panel for the National Blood Authority and Emergency Medicine Foundation. He is part of the Synergy Blood Group based at the Transfusion Research Unit at Monash University. | |
Professor Paul Young BSc(Hons) MBChB GradCertCritCare Echo PhD FCICM
Prof Young is Deputy Director and Intensive Care Programme Director at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Co-Clinical Lead of the Intensive Care Unit at Wellington Hospital, and the Medical Director of Wakefield Hospital in Wellington, New Zealand. He has >$40 million in competitive research funding in the past 5 years, including 22 grants from New Zealand’s Health and Research Council, and multiple additional grants from Australian, European, and Canadian funders. His awards include a Health and Research Council of New Zealand Clinical Practitioners Fellowship (2017-2022). His high-impact publications include Young et al, SPLIT, JAMA 2015;314:1701-10; Young et al, HEAT, N Engl J Med 2015;373:2215-24; ICU-ROX, N Engl J Med 2020;382:989-98; Young et al, PEPTIC, JAMA 2020;323:616-26; Fujii et al, VITAMINS, JAMA 2020;323:423-31. In 2020, Prof Young was an author of two of the top 10 most-viewed non-COVID related JAMA papers (VITAMINS & PEPTIC). These two papers were viewed more than 220,000 times in 2020. The ICU-ROX trial was selected by the editors of the NEJM as one of the top 14 most notable NEJM studies of 2020. Prof Young was presented with the Medicines New Zealand Value of Medicines award for his NEJM-published research on paracetamol therapy in the critically ill, and the Liley Medal recognising the most important health research publication from a New Zealand investigator for the calendar year awarded to Prof Young for the SPLIT trial, published in JAMA in 2015, evaluating intravenous fluid therapy in critically ill patients. |