Core Faculty
A/Prof Joseph Mathew
Deputy Director, Trauma Service, The Alfred
A/Prof Mathew has substantial experience in facilitating and organising trauma education & resuscitation courses in Australia and overseas. He is the founder convenor of The Alfred’s Trauma Resuscitation Workshop and founder facilitator of the Emergency Trauma Management (ETM) course. He is also a founding member of the Alfred's Shock, Trauma and Resuscitation (S.T.A.R) Program.
A/Prof Mathew has also been actively involved in co-ordinating the development of the Masters of Trauma and the Masters of Emergency Medicine in the NTRI and the Alfred Emergency department.
Dr Mathew’s focus on research is in the development and efficacy of technological interventions in the setting of trauma resuscitation in developing countries. He is currently involved in research related to diagnosis and treatment of spinal, vascular and chest injuries.
Core Faculty
A/Prof Dr Chris Groombridge
Emergency and Trauma Physician, The Alfred Hospital
Chris has a particular interest in the prehospital management of trauma and has worked as a retrieval specialist with Sydney HEMS & CareFlight NSW, as well as London HEMS in the UK.
He is also a co-founding faculty member of Alfred's Trauma Resuscitation Workshop and Shock, Trauma and Resuscitation (S.T.A.R) Program.
Chris’ current research interests focus on optimising airway management outside of the operating theatre and has previously published work on preoxygenation for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) and prehospital RSI induction pharmacology. He has also completed his PhD on the human factors of resuscitation.
Core Faculty
Dr Mike Noonan
Emergency and Trauma Physician, The Alfred
Mike 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).
Mike is currently involved in developing the Masters of Trauma and Masters of Emergency Medicine program; a joint venture of the Alfred, NTRI and Monash University, as well as being a founding faculty member of the Alfred's Shock, Trauma and Resuscitation (S.T.A.R) Program.
Core Faculty
Dr Amit Maini
Trauma Consultant, The Alfred Hospital
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.
Core Faculty
Dr Francis O'Keeffe
Emergency Physician and Trauma Lead, Mater Hospital, Dublin.
Fran has been extensively involved in emergency and trauma education throughout his training. He regularly instructs on Advanced Life Support (ALS) courses throughout Australia as well as being an instructor on the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) course. Fran is a founding faculty member of the Alfred's Shock, Trauma and Resuscitation (S.T.A.R) Program.
Dr O’Keeffe’s main areas of clinical interest are in critical care and trauma resuscitation. He remains an Honorary Consultant with the Alfred Trauma Service as well as Research Fellow with The National Trauma Research Institute, Australia. Dr O’Keeffe is actively involved in medical education and regularly teaches all aspects of critical care and emergency procedures to doctors on courses throughout Ireland, Australia, the Middle East and China..
Director
Prof Mark Fitzgerald
Director of the National Trauma Research Institute and Director of Trauma Services, The Alfred.
Professor Fitzgerald has led the establishment of trauma reception, resuscitation and management programs along with Trauma Systems development in 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 improvement, error reduction and standardisation of resuscitation care. The development of semi-automated, computer–assisted resuscitation is a career goal. He has delivered 180 major presentations, 230 publications in peer-review journals, 12 book chapters and is a reviewer for multiple medical and surgical journals.
Senior Faculty
Dr Lauren Chalwell
Dr Lauren Chalwell is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Consultant at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She previously was the Director of Emergency Trauma Services and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of California San Francisco - San Francisco General Hospital in the US. She has a significant interest in resuscitation and procedural skills education and for years has taught cadaver-based procedural skills courses locally, regionally and nationally at ACEP Scientific Assemblies. Her other academic interests include emergency trauma education, clinical guideline development, and community violence prevention.
Senior Faculty
Dr Cecil Johnny
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 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 Johnny has a strong interest in medical education, especially resuscitative procedures and wound management. He regularly instructs on The Alfred Trauma Service’s procedural intervention and resuscitation trauma education programs. His clinical interests are thoracic trauma, resuscitation and interventional procedures.
Senior Faculty
Dr Marianne Juarez
Dr. Marianne Juarez is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California. She is interested in orthopedic trauma and procedural skills education and has taught limb- and life-threatening procedural skills through cadaver-based courses locally, regionally and nationally, including at past ACEP Scientific Assemblies. Her other interests include medical education, mentorship and advising with a focus on those underrepresented in medicine, and the advancement of DEIB-related issues in medicine and medical education. She is also the Co-Director of Medical Student Education within the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and enjoys teaching across fields at all levels of education and training.