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Mary Hawkins
Mary Hawkins commenced her career in Intensive Care Nursing at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, England. She has extensive experience as an Intensive Care Nurse Educator and Course Coordinator at Box Hill Hospital. She was part of the commissioning project for the intensive care unit at Robina Hospital on the Gold Coast where she designed and coordinated the education program for nursing staff. She is currently Clinical Nurse Educator at Monash Medical Centre where she has major responsibility for the induction of staff
transitioning to intensive care specialty. She is a Senior Clinical Associate at Deakin University. She founded and coordinated the Network of Critical Care Educators (NOCCE) in Victoria for the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses. She holds a Master in Health Science Critical Care at Deakin University and a Master of Training and Development at the University of Melbourne. Mary’s key areas of research are: Satisfiers and dissatisfiers of postgraduate students and Learning in Communities of Practice
Dr Simon Erickson
Simon Erickson is a staff specialist in intensive care at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Western Australia. He trained in paediatric intensive care at Princess Margaret Hospital, The Children’s Hospital Westmead, NSW and the Sick Children’s Hospital in Toronto and adult intensive care at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA. He is a committee member of the Paediatric Study Group of ANZICS and is Paediatric Chair on the ANZICS Executive Board. He is also on the board of examiners for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. Simon has published several original papers and acts as reviewer for several journals including Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. His work-related interests are in clinical research, use of echocardiography in PICU and acute care teaching (PALS, EMAC). One of his main interests is the role that intensive care units in developed countries can play in assisting the underresourced intensive care units in developing countries and he has been involved in teaching in several Asian countries including India and Indonesia. He has also been involved in volunteer work and has made 8 consecutive trips to Papua New Guinea with Operation Open Heart.
Professor Ken Hillman
Ken Hillman is Professor of Intensive Care at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)
with clinical practice at Liverpool and Campbelltown hospitals. Ken graduated from Sydney University and trained at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and St Bartholomew’s hospital in London. He was the first candidate to pass the Australian intensive care examination in 1980, following which he became the Director of Intensive Care at Charing Cross Hospital in London before returning to Australia to become Director at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. He has over 100 peer reviewed publications; approximately 50 chapters in textbooks; co-authored an intensive care textbook; co-edited several textbooks; and written a book; and has acquired over $6 million in peer reviewed grants. Ken has been an examiner for 12 years in intensive care and has held many professional positions related to health. He is the Director of the Simpson Centre for Health Services Research which is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at the UNSW.
Jacqui Jauncey-Cooke
Jacqui Jauncey-Cooke is a clinical nurse in the PICU at the Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland and works within the Paediatric Critical Care Research Group led A/Professor Andreas Schibler. Jacqui began her career in the critical care field at Monash Medical Centre where she obtained a Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing through Monash University. Having obtained her Masters in 2000 through Monash University, Jacqui commenced her PhD in 2007 at The University of Queensland. The title of her thesis is ‘Optimising Mechanical Ventilation in Paediatrics’ and is primarily centred on a randomised controlled trial investigating the best method of manipulating PEEP post ETT suctioning, to restore lung volume as measured by Electrical Impedance Tomography.
A/Prof John Santamaria
John Santamaria graduated from the University of Melbourne and undertook physician training in respiratory and intensive care medicine at St Vincent’s and Royal Melbourne Hospitals. Over the next two years he completed a Doctorate of Medicine in control of breathing and then worked in Vancouver Canada within the developing specialty of sleep medicine. He returned to Australia in 1985 as the Director of ICU at St Vincent’s Hospital. To assist with clinical research additional qualifications in biostatistics were obtained during the 1990s. Research interests have included work of breathing, severity of illness scores, clinical outcomes and medical emergency teams as well as participation in the clinical trials network. John has been an active member of the intensive care community on state and national executives including time as president of ANZICS. He continues clinical practice in areas that include intensive care, respiratory and sleep medicine.
Professor Frank Shann AM
Frank Shann, MD, FRACP, FJFICM, is a Staff Specialist in Intensive Care at the Royal Children’s
Hospital in Melbourne and Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He is 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 was Director of Intensive Care at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne for 20 years and helped develop the PIM mortality prediction model. He worked for seven years in Papua New Guinea, in Kenya and with International Red Cross in East Timor. He helped develop a vaccine that eradicated pigbel from Papua New Guinea. His research into pneumonia in children in PNG formed the
basis for the WHO Acute Respiratory Infections programme. Frank has published more than 200 articles, six books and 17 book chapters.
Professor David Studdert
David Studdert is a Federation Fellow and Professor at the University of Melbourne. He
holds a joint appointment at the Melbourne School of Population Health, where he is Deputy
Head and the Melbourne Law School. Professor Studdert’s research focuses on legal
and regulatory issues in the health care sector. He has authored more than 130 articles and book chapters and his work appears frequently in leading international journals. He is currently involved in studies investigating compensation system reform, informed
consent, disclosure of medical injury and the work of coroners in Australia. In 2004, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. Before coming to the University of Melbourne in January, 2007, Professor Studdert was Associate Professor of Law and Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he taught courses in health law and medical ethics. He has also held positions as a policy analyst at RAND in Santa Monica, California, an advisor to the Victorian Minister for Health, and as a practicing lawyer.
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