Dr Fiona Coyer
Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology

Dr Fiona Coyer is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology and is the Postgraduate Course Coordinator and also coordinates the postgraduate intensive care courses. She is a member of the ACCCN Queensland Management Committee. Fiona completed her PhD at QUT exploring family focused intensive care nursing through action research. Her research interests include family focused nursing and patients and families perspectives of intensive care.

Thomas E. Stewart MD, FRCPC

Dr. Thomas E. Stewart is Associate Professor of Medicine and Anaesthesiology at the University of Toronto. He is also Director of Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network (Toronto General, Toronto Western and Princess Margaret Hospitals) in Toronto. Dr. Stewart is physician lead and advisor to the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care on efforts to transform critical care medicine in Ontario. He is director of the International Collaboration for Excellence in Critical Care Medicine which is focused on teaching leadership skills to clinicians. He received his medical degree with honours from the University of Ottawa (1988). Dr. Stewart completed residencies in internal medicine and critical care medicine at the University of Toronto.

He has received multiple honours and awards. Dr. Stewart’s research focuses include ARDS and ALI, Lung Protective modes of mechanical ventilation, unconventional approaches to mechanical ventilation, critical care medicine networks, leadership skills and implementing change. He has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters. Dr. Stewart has also presented at more than 260 invited lectures nationally and internationally.

Dr J.F.Bion FRCP FRCA MD
Reader in Intensive Care Medicine, University Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
President, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Dr Bion is the Reader in Intensive Care Medicine at Birmingham University, and honorary consultant in intensive care medicine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust. He is responsible for undergraduate training resuscitation and acute care to more than 1,800 students, coordinating an integrated programme from peer-led teaching in basic life support to intensive care and immediate life support in the final years. He has led a national group supported by the Resuscitation Council and the Intercollegiate Board for Training in ICM to develop an undergraduate curriculum in acute care.

He was the first Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine for the West Midlands Region, and as past member of the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine was responsible for developing the UK competency-based training programme in ICM. He is an examiner both for the UK Diploma and the European Diploma of Intensive Care. He is a member of the Academy of Royal Colleges Foundation Years Curriculum Group and the patient safety working group at the NPSA. He has been a member of the critical care committees of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Royal College of Physicians. He was a member of council of the Intensive Care Society from 1993-9 and secretary of its research subcommittee.

He was UK representative on the council of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine from 1994, then secretary of the society and member of the executive committee, and is currently President of the ESICM (2004-6). In addition to restructing the society, he has established the European Critical Care Research Network, founded an international collaborative research group into the genetics of sepsis (GenOSept) which was awarded a grant of 2.1MEur for 2005-8, and as lead investigator has also obtained an EU grant of 0.54MEur to develop an international competency-based training programme in ICM worldwide (CoBaTrICE) In 2004 he was presented with the Shubin-Weil award for Excellence by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is now coordinating an international partnership in acute care safety (IPACS) which has been adopted by the World Health Organisation’s World Alliance for Patient Safety.

He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Critical Care, Critical Care Forum, and the journal of Research Ethics Committees. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, reviews and several textbooks. His research interests include the pathogenesis and prevention of multiple organ failure, intensive care audit, severity scoring, resource provision, and education. He has raised over £4 M for intensive care research.

Michael Murray

Maureen A. Madden RN MSN CCRN PNP-AC FCCM

Maureen is a Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital in New Jersey, USA and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnsom Medical School. Maureen received her BSN from Columbia University School of Nursing, in New York City and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia, Pennsylavania. Maureen is a Fellow in the American College of Critical Care (FCCM) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies and is Chair of the Nursing Section for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).

Tina Kendrick RN, PIC Cert., B.Nurs. (Hons), M.Nurs., FCN, FRCNA
Children’s Hospital
Westmead/University of Technology, Sydney

Tina Kendrick has been working in critical care since 1986. Currently, Tina is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in PICU at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead and an Honorary Research Fellow with the University of Technology, Sydney. She spent several years as an academic in paediatrics and intensive care at two Sydney universities and is currently the National President of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). Tina is also the national coordinator of the ACCCN Paediatric Special Interest Group. Tina has co-authored book chapters and journal articles on critically ill children, competency standards for specialist critical care nurses and the ACCCN credentialling model. She has been involved in a number of studies to determine content and construct validity of the ACCCN Competency Standards for Specialist Critical Care Nurses and was a developer of the Australian Credentialling model for specialist critical care nurses. Tina has been an Invited Speaker to a number of national and international conferences on a diverse range of paediatric and intensive care topics. She has participated in many working groups with state and national governments on critical care services over the past decade.

Thomas V. Brogan

Thomas V. Brogan, M.D., is an associate professor of Pediatrics. He is an attending physician, practicing pediatric critical care medicine at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. He joined the staff of Children’s Hospital in 1996 after completing his residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and several chapters with an emphasis on respiratory physiology. He has also published a number of articles related to pediatric critical care including studies on mechanical ventilation, necrotizing fasciitis, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. His laboratory based research centers on pulmonary blood flow and the effects of carbon dioxide on changes in pulmonary blood flow and the matching of ventilation to pulmonary blood flow. He has been a collaborating researcher on several NIH-funded research projects. He also serves as a reviewer for a number of medical journals. In addition to his research he has served as the director the Extracorporeal Support Services at Children’s Hospital since 2001. He is also serves as a member of the Airlift Landing Review Committee.

Colleen Shelton

Colleen Shelton has over twenty years of progressive nursing experience in neurosciences, critical care & transplantation nursing with roles in practice, leadership, and education. She was selected as the Canadian nurse expert in transplantation to speak before a federal parliamentary committee and has served as the National President for the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses (CACCN). In her current role as Nurse Manager for the Multi Organ Transplant Program at Toronto General Hospital, she manages Canada's largest organ transplant program, demonstrating expertise, creativity, innovation and commitment to excellence in Nursing. Colleen is currently completing her Master's in Business Administration and holds Canadian Nursing certifications in both Critical Care and Nephrology Nursing. She speaks nationally & internationally on topics relating to transplantation and innovation in nursing and healthcare.

Mark Hochmann M.App.Sc.
Senior ICU Technologist in Charge
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Mark manages a team of 4 ICU technologists who provide technical support for the PICU and NNU as well as supporting a group of approximately 40 children who are ventilated at home. He has been involved with providing haemofitration and plasmafiltration in the PICU since the mid 1980’s. Mark’s special interests include high frequency ventilation, home care, ECMO and ICU and NNU design

Justin Oakley

Justin Oakley BA, PhD (Philosophy) is Director of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. He is the author of Morality and the Emotions (Routledge, 1993), and Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (with Dean Cocking) (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and is editor of Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: The ethics of auditing and reporting surgeon performance (with Steve Clarke) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Bioethics (Ashgate, International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics, 2006). He has published articles in international journals on the ethics of clinical trials, informed consent, surrogate motherhood, surgeon report cards, family caregiving, whistleblowing, and various topics in ethical theory. Since joining the Centre as Lecturer in 1990, Justin has taught several hundred health professionals in the Master of Bioethics course at Monash. Justin is currently leading a team of researchers in an NHMRC-funded project on informed consent and report cards on the clinical performance of individual cardiac surgeons. Justin was co-recipient, along with Steve Clarke, of the 2004 Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics, for their research on the ethics of disclosing to patients performance data about individual surgeons.

Paediatric Speakers

Lori C. Marshall PhD, RN

Since 1998, Dr Marshall has been a Clinical Manager, Patient Care Services at Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. In this role, Dr Marshall provides direct leadership management for unit staff, monitors clinical care quality and provides education, mentoring and role development. Aside from the unit leadership role, Dr Marshall chairs the Patient Care Services Performance Improvement committee and serves as a consultant for organization-wide performance improvement facilitation and Patient and Family Education activities.

In 2003, Dr. Marshall received her Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Education (Educational Psychology) with an emphasis on human performance in the workplace at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Her research activities focus on teamwork particularly within healthcare. While at USC, Dr. Marshall expanded the Teamwork Skills Questionnaire (H. F. O’Neil, 1997, 1999), by writing three new scales for self and collective efficacy and collective effort specifically relating to teamwork in healthcare, and modifying an individual effort scale by O’Neil and Herl (1998) to creating the composite of measures found in the Healthcare Teams Questionnaire. Thus, the Healthcare Teams Questionnaire (HTQ) is based on a blending of O’Neil’s (1997, 1999) six teamwork skills dimensions and socio-cognitive learning theory (efficacy and effort and team Environment).

As part of independent research work, Dr. Marshall continues to refine the HTQ scales and perform testing of the Health Teams Model as part of a non-profit, interdisciplinary research collaborative. The Healthcare Teams Research Group, forms partnerships with health care facilities to study teamwork skills and environmental factors influencing teams and teamwork.

To date three studies have been conducted in the United States and one in Australia. Two newer studies are in process, one in Sydney Australia and one with physician primary medical office teams. The settings include hospitals, a national rehabilitation center, and a university medical center physician office groups.

Frank Shann MD, FRACP, FJFICM

Frank Shann is a Consultant in Intensive Care at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and Professor of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne. He is a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Respiratory Infections, and a member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet. Frank did his medical training at the University of Melbourne, trained as an adult physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and trained in paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital. He worked for seven years in Papua New Guinea, in Kenya, and with ICRC in East Timor. He was Director of Intensive Care at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne for 20 years. He developed the Paediatric Index of Mortality (PIM), and has used this model to asses the quality of treatment given to children in intensive care. Frank has published 200 articles, six books and 15 book chapters.

Paul Monagle

Paul is currently employed as the Head of Department, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne and Director of Haematology, Royal Children’s Hospital.

Paul graduated from Monash Medical School with honours in 1988. Paul achieved dual fellowship of RCP/RCPA in 1997 as a paediatric haematologist. His MD (Monash) was completed in 2003 and he obtained fellowship of ACCP in 2001. During 1996-98, Paul worked as a research fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, completing a Masters of Science (Health Research Methodology).

Paul returned to Melbourne in 1998 to commence as Laboratory Haematologist Womens and Childrens, Health Care Network. Within 12 months Paul was appointed acting Director Division of Laboratory Services and subsequently was formally appointed Director.

Paul is on the editorial board of Thrombosis Research and a reviewer for many international journals, as well as participating in the McMaster on line evidence based review process.

Paul has published extensively in the fields of developmental haemostasis and paediatric thrombosis and anticoagulation, co authoring the only major textbook in the field (Thromboembolic complications during infancy and childhood. Andrew M, Monagle P, Brooker L. Decker Inc. 2000 ) as well as multiple chapters in other major texts. Paul is principle investigator of the Fontan A study, the only currently open multinational RCT of anticoagulation in children with cardiac disease, and has significant international collaborations. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers, in addition to numerous reviews.

Paul is recognised internationally for his clinical service, and is the current Chair, American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Antithrombotic Guidelines, paediatric chapter and Co chair, ISTH (International Society Thrombosis Haemostasis) Paediatric subcommittee.