The Procedures Course

Professor Mark Fitzgerald is Director of the National Trauma Research Institute and Director of Trauma Services at The Alfred and has led the establishment of trauma reception, resuscitation and management programs along with Trauma Systems development in Australia, China, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka. He is co-chair of the Australian New Zealand Trauma Registry. Professor Fitzgerald’s research themes include trauma systems development, clinical care of the severely injured, error reduction and the standardisation of resuscitation care.

A/Prof Mathew has been successfully involved in Trauma systems development across Asia in countries like India, Sri Lanka, China and Saudi Arabia. He was the Australian lead of the successfully completed Australia- India Trauma System Collaboration which involved systems development, registry development and technology development. He has worked as a consultant in trauma systems development.

MBBS MA(Cantab) MSc PhD DOHNS (RCSEng) DRTM (RCSEd) DIMC (RCSEd) MRCS FACEM

Chris is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Specialist at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and head of clinical research for the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI). Chris has a particular interest in the prehospital management of trauma and has worked as a retrieval specialist with Sydney HEMS, CareFlight NSW, and Adult Retrieval Victoria, and internationally with London’s Air Ambulance and Essex & Hertfordshire Air Ambulance in the UK. He is a former director of emergency medicine training with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and also a founder of The Procedures Course and The Airway Course, which are cadaver-based skills courses, teaching life-saving interventions to critical care clinicians.

BSc MBBS FACEM

Amit is a Trauma Consultant and Emergency Physician at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and has a special interest in education especially as it relates to emergency airway management, and trauma reception within the ED. Amit is also a former director of Emergency Medicine training with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and former Editor for EMRAP Australia - a global monthly emergency medicine audio program. He is a founder and co-creator of the Emergency Trauma Management Course based in Melbourne Australia, as well as The Procedures Course (Australia, and Europe) and The Airway Course (Australia), teaching life saving techniques to critical care physicians.

Dr Mike Noonan has been working at The Alfred since 2014, having previously trained and worked in QLD, NSW and the United Kingdom. He completed a fellowship with the Alfred Trauma Service over this period. Mike has a strong interest in Medical Education, having competed a post-graduate qualification in Medical Education from the University of Dundee (UK) and being involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education through honorary roles with Bond and Griffith Universities (Gold Coast).

Dr Johnny graduated with a MBBS from Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, India, in 1998, and achieved a Master of Surgery in 2005. He joined The Alfred in 2010 where he completed his Advanced Training in Emergency Medicine, and subsequently went on to receive his Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 2017. Dr Johnny previously held the positions of Senior Resident & Lecturer in General Surgery at Christian Medical College & Hospital and Trauma Fellow for The Alfred Trauma Service. He has significant surgical experience including general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and vascular trauma.

Dr Panagiota Kakridas is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Consultant at The Alfred Hospital. She has a strong commitment to medical education and particularly enjoys procedural and clinical skills teaching.

Dr Sinéad Ní Bhraonáin is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine working at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney. She moved to Australia after completing her Emergency Medicine Specialist Training in Ireland to work for NSW Ambulance Helicopter Rescue Service. She has since undertaken multiple fellowships including Emergency Medicine (UK and Australia), a difficult Airway fellowship, a critical care and retrieval medicine fellowship and has a fellowship in Sports and Exercise Medicine.

Dr Clare Richmond is an emergency physician who provides critical care anywhere in her role a s pre-hospital and retrieval medicine specialist with NSW Ambulance, where she is Supervisor of Medical Training and a State Retrieval Consultant. On other days, Clare can be found in the emergency department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, asking her team ‘what do you want to learn about today?’ musing the same thoughts for her own time, seeking always to discover. She enjoys educating multidisciplinary clinicians for Sydney HEMS, Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, the University of Sydney and at the courses and conferences across the globe.

Dr Danny Ben-Eli is a Trauma Consultant and Emergency Physician at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He completed his medical degree at Israel’s Institute of Technology in 1993 and his Emergency Medicine training in 2008. Danny has worked as an Emergency Physician at Alfred’s Emergency and Trauma Centre since 2009. He served as Program Director for Emergency Medicine training at Monash Medical Centre from 2013 to 2018 and as a Retrieval Consultant with Adult Retrieval Victoria from 2008 to 2017. Danny regularly instructs both locally and internationally, contributing to the Alfred Trauma Service and the National Trauma Research Institute's trauma system development and education programs. He was previously a member of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine's Court of Examiners.

Dr David McCreary is an Emergency Physician at the Alfred Hospital and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University. He completed his undergraduate training in the UK at the University of Liverpool and completed his MSc in Trauma Science from Queen Mary’s University, London. David trained in Emergency Medicine in a variety of centres in UK and Australia and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

Dr Nir Samuel is a Trauma and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Israel, leading the establishment of a national Pediatric Trauma Service. As a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, his research centers on trauma, predictors of life-threatening conditions, and emergency interventions. Trained at The Alfred Trauma Service and the National Trauma Research Institute in Australia, as well as in Pediatric Emergency Medicine in Israel, Nir also provides pre-hospital care in complex and austere settings. He instructs on Trauma and Emergency Medicine courses both in Israel and internationally.

Dr Sean Arendse is a senior Emergency and Trauma specialist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, As past Director of Emergency Medicine Training has a special interest in Education and also the integration of simulation as an Education tool.

He has also worked in the Aeromedical retrieval space for both Adult Retrieval Victoria and private retrieval companies.