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Jamie Andrews

Australia

I am an Emergency Physician currently in Sydney. I work mostly at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, a major trauma centre in the city. I am also completing my dual training in Intensive Care Medicine. I love all things resuscitation related but am also secretly in love with emergency orthopaedics and…

John Bonning

New Zealand

I am an emergency physician based in the Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand, a busy tertiary referral centre in the middle of a large regional catchment. I have been an EM specialist for over 20 of my over 30 years practicing as a doctor, working mainly in NZ but also in Australia (Alice Springs and…

Duncan Bootland

United Kingdom

I am a UK Emergency Physician working in the Major Trauma Centre in Brighton. I dual-accredited in both Emergency Medicine and Critical Care and since gaining a Consultant post have spent 6 months seconded to the Kent, Surrey, Sussex Air Ambulance (HEMS) service for whom I still do regular shifts…

Marcel Canoy

Netherlands

Professor in health economics, Amsterdam. Marcel Canoy is endowed professor in Health Economics at the department of Ethics, Governance and Society of the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Beside his work for the Vrije Universiteit Marcel works for the Dutch Na…

Thomas Cassidy

Australia

I am an emergency physician based in Perth, Western Australia, where I work at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. I narrowly avoided going into orthopaedic surgery and instead now enjoy dealing with complex medical patients that frequently attend my hospital. My interests include education, ultrasoun…

Pramod Chandry

Australia

I am an emergency physician based at Nepean and Westmead Hospitals in Sydney Australia. I have a special interest in medical education, research and simulation. I am also currently the Toxicology Fellow at Westmead Hospital.

Evan Coughlan

United Kingdom

I am an Emergency physician working in Brighton in the UK in a Major Trauma Centre. I am the ultrasound lead for Kent Surrey and Sussex deanery. I work as a crowd doctor for Brighton and Hove Albion. I also am the medical director for an events company specialising in festival medicine. I have an…

Stephen Dunjey

Australia

I am an Emergency Physician based for the last 30 years at the Royal Perth Hospital, a busy city centre institution which is the Trauma Centre for the state of Western Australia, the biggest province in the world. I was born in Perth, but grew up in New Guinea, and qualified as a FACEM in 1990. I…

Kate Field

Australia

Dr Kate Field is a FACEM working in Hobart, Tasmania, in a private hospital that sees 30-40 patients each day. Her portfolio includes education and training, and she has been developing a training program for registrars in emergency medicine, enabling them to complete some training requirements i…

Naren Gunja

Australia

Dr. Gunja is a graduate of the Sydney Medical School in Australia. Following on from his primary fellowship in Emergency Medicine, he trained in Medical Toxicology at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. He is an Emergency Physician at Westmead Hospital as well as a Clinical Toxicologist at the NSW Poiso…

Cornelia Hartel

Sweden

“Dr. Cornelia Härtel (Twitter: @emtrenchdoc) is an Emergency Physician from Germany and trained EM in Sweden, Germany and Ireland. After a recent fellowship at a MTC (major trauma centre) in London/UK she has returned to Sweden working as a consultant in the ED at the Southern General Hospital in…

Thomas Hitchcock

Australia

I am an Australian Emergency Physician who was born in Uganda and grew up in Scotland. I have been a FACEM since 1994 and my main specialist appointments have been at Royal Perth Hospital and Fremantle Hospital in Western Australia where I currently work. My core professional commitment is as a c…

Maite Huis in ‘t Veld

Netherlands

Maite Huis in ‘t Veld is an ABEM board certified emergency physician. She was born & raised in Utrecht, the Netherlands, but moved to Baltimore, MD for residency training, and completed a cardiovascular emergencies fellowship afterwards. After spending additional years practicing emergency me…

Kevin Lai

Australia

Dr Kevin Lai, MBBS FACEM Emergency Physician, Trauma Physician I am a Senior Emergency Physician. I am currently working at Westmead Hospital, a tertiary referral hospital and a major Trauma Centre for western Sydney. I also work at Ryde Hospital and Auburn Hospital, which are smaller metropolita…

Iestyn Lewis

Australia

I am an Emergency Physician working in the Emergency Department of the Royal Hobart Hospital. Originally from the UK, I left in 2005 for a year long working holiday, only to find myself pursing a career in emergency medicine in New Zealand and then Australia. I became a Consultant in 2012 and ove…

Eleanor Loughhead

Australia

I am a dual trained Paediatric Emergency Physician (FACEM PEM) and have been working in the emergency department at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania’s only tertiary hospital, from 2018. My portfolio is (surprisingly) paediatrics with an emphasis on teaching and quality improvement. As well as …

Ian Maconochie

United Kingdom

Founder of the Association of Paediatric Emergency Medicine for the UK and Ireland (APEM), and in establishing the curriculum for paediatric emergency training in UK and in Europe (through the European Society of Emergency Medicine, EUSEM). Past President of the Research arm of APEM, and for the …

Sander Manders

Netherlands

After completing my training in Emergency Medicine in the Netherlands a few years ago, I found myself wanting more than the emerging Dutch training programme could provide at that stage. In order to seek further skills and knowledge, I went to Australia, and have since then worked all over the re…

Khoury Mykannen

Australia

I am an Australia-trained Emergency Physician, currently working in regional Australia. Originally from Norway, I chose Emergency Medicine for the variety and travel opportunities that it provides. I have special interests in palliative medicine, diving and hyperbaric medicine, and quality improv…

Harm van der Pas

Netherlands

Harm van de Pas is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Elisabeth-TweeSteden hospital, the level-1 trauma center of the province of Noord-Brabant. Until recently he has been the medical director of the Emergency Department, and has been so for about twelve years. He was one of the first ED-docs …

Gaynor Prince

Australia

I am an emergency physician based in Perth Western Australia at Sir Charles Gairdner hospital. I did my undergrad training in South Africa, FACEM training in New Zealand and have developed a subspecialty interest in ultrasound in ED in Australia. I love adventures and enjoy trips as an expedition…

Paul Ransom

United Kingdom

I have been an Emergency Medicine Consultant for nearly 20 years in Brighton University Hospitals of Sussex, where we have the Major Trauma Centre. During my time I have enjoyed lots of teaching ( Acute Care Common Stem Training Program Director ), lots of Trauma ( Major Trauma Centre and ex-HEMS…

Jasper Rebel

Netherlands

I am an emergency physician, working as the residency director in the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam. Located right in the city centre, our department is proud to be a host for almost 80.000 patients a year, most of which are on drugs. I have taken an interest in education since university and have b…

Clare Richmond

Australia

Clare is an Emergency Physician with special interests in both simulation education and Retrieval medicine. She currently works with the Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre focusing on multidisciplinary emergency education, Royal Prince Alfred And Canterbury Hospitals as a visiting Emerg…

John Roe

Australia

Dr John Roe works as an EM Specialist in Royal Darwin Hospital and in Aeromedical retrieval with CareFlight NT. His day jobs have lots of fun and diverse medicine including snake bites and tropical/infectious diseases. He is privileged to see a lot of Aboriginal patients and visit their communiti…

William Rush

United Kingdom

I am an Emergency Medicine consultant with extensive experience in London Major Trauma Centres, New Zealand and Australia. I completed my Emergency Medicine training in New Zealand and began my career as a consultant at Middlemore Hospital, one of Australasia’s busiest Emergency Departments. Due …

Sean Scott

Netherlands

I’m a part time emergency physician, part time intensivist and full time itinerant medic. Although Australian by birth I have spent about as much time overseas as I have in Australia. My medical and specialty training in Australia were punctuated by extended periods in Sri Lanka, Italy, London an…

William Strobbe

Belgium

William Strobbe (1958) started in education, shifted to wine, then found his niche in training, coaching, and consulting. His studies in economics, psychology, and innovative leadership shaped his interactive approach. At de Baak Management Center (2001-2017), he led Management Development and se…

Marcel Thijssen

Netherlands

I am a Dutch emergency physician since 2013. Trained in Eindhoven and after working in the UK for a year, I started working at Bravis hospital. A middle sized hospital that has a site in Bergen op Zoom and in Roosendaal where we see a wide variety of patients in a highly independent manner. My sp…

Michael Trauer

United Kingdom

Michael Trauer is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Michael completed medical school in Melbourne in 2003 and then spent several years working in both urban and remote areas around Australia. In 2010 he moved to the UK to complete a Masters in Viola performance th…

Gavin Tunnard

United Kingdom

I am a UK EM physician working in the North of Scotland in a small rural DGH 80% of the time with 20% of my time being spent working for the Scottish retrieval service (EMRS) which sees me doing standard pre-hospital HEMS work along with ICU transfers via fixed wing from the Scottish islands to t…

Jeroen Veldhuis

Netherlands

I am a Dutch Emergency Physician with a special interest in critical care, trauma and education. Fortunately, these are a large part of my daily job working at Isala: a Major Trauma Centre and a large teaching hospital. After my training I did all of the masterclasses as a participant and also di…

René Verbeek

Netherlands

I’m an Emergency Physician since 2004, now working in the Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, Friesland. It’s a middle sized hospital with a level 3 ED in a rural area where we get a fair amount of occult trauma patients. We see all patient categories and are in direct contact with the other spe…

Leonieke Vlaanderen

Netherlands

As a Dutch Emergency Physician, having previously worked in the Dutch Royal Navy as Search and Rescue doctor on the Lynx helicopter, I came to the UK in 2013 to gain more experience in Emergency Medicine. It was an instant match and I’ve not managed to leave as of yet! I feel extremely lucky and …

Greg White

Australia

I am an Emergency Physician based at Westmead Hospital, a major trauma referral centre in Western Sydney. Our hospital is a stones throw from a racing drag strip where anyone with a motorbike and a dream can have a go, as well as a maximum security prison where a surprising number of inmates hurt…