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Evidence Review 2018

Evidence Review 2018

The NSW & ACT Faculties of ACEM and PHEMC.org are pleased to continue their 9th year of collaboration in presenting the Evidence Review in Emergency Medicine.

We had a fabulous time – thank you to the fabulous presenters who made it the success that it was!

We look forward to seeing you next year. 

We are busy editing the footage that we recorded and will let you know when it’s available on the website.

The Evidence Review Committee 2018

Participating Speakers

Claire Doherty

EvRev 19

Claire Doherty is a senior outpatients physiotherapist at Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital.  Claire has been physiotherapist for the Australian Medical Football Team at the annual World Medical Football Championships since 2010.  Claire was the recipient of the Rural and Regional Michelle Beets Memorial Award for services to paediatrics in 2014.

Richard Paoloni

ER 18

Chris Trethewy

EVREV2021

Dr Chris Trethewy is a Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Physician based at Gosford Hospital. He is currently the head of Emergency Department Research for the Central Coast Local Health District. He is also a medical director of the Tamworth Retrieval Service and a state medical consultant for the Ambulance service of New South Wales. He has a long history of multidisciplinary education, collaborative research and training. He is a conjoint senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle and has an interest in critical care and improving the performance of the individual clinician and the team.

Alan Giles

EVREV2022

Dr Alan Giles is an Emergency Physician and medical educator based in Sydney. After completing his Fellowship in 1994 he has worked in both large and small EDs in both the public and private sector. His educational interests include Simulation, bedside ultrasound and FOAM education. Alan is the host of the podcast EMcast and is the Hospital Skills Director for SLHD and SSWLHD. Clinically he works at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Wahroonga, Sydney where he also teaches bedside ultrasound. He has volunteered regularly in South East Asia over the last 10 years and is looking for an excuse to do it again. Not as fit as he deludes himself he once was, Alan is married with 2 adult children and 2 annoying cats.

Sylvia Boys

ER 18
The Obesity ABCs

Sylvia Boys is an Emergency Physician at Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. She particularly enjoys that Emergency Medicine allows her to have a different subspeciality interest several times a shift. She is involved in regional trauma care, violence intervention programmes, is an EMST instructor and is one of the lecturers for the regional Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist course. In addition to family demands she is a keen cyclist, runner and skier, gardener, an improving violin player and amateur beekeeper.

Suzanne Miller

ER 18
Life Threatening Obstetric Emergencies

After earning a MD at Harvard Medical School and training in emergency medicine at Stanford University, Suzie has practiced medicine on every continent. Highlights include serving as attending emergency physician and ultrasound director at a level I trauma center near Washington, DC, providing disaster response after the Haitian earthquake, volunteering in Palestinian refugee camps, and caring for adventure racers from the Sahara Desert to Antarctica.  

Suzie came to Sydney four years ago and has worked at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Ryde Hospital, and Sutherland Hospital. She has been most impressed with the community and high-quality care provided by regional centers in Australia. 

Outside of clinical practice, Suzie is CEO of MDadmit, a medical admissions consulting firm, mentor for CSIRO ON, angel investor in med tech, and CMO for mHealth Digital and What the Doctor Said.

Mary McCaskill

ER 18
Indicators of low risk in Paediatrics

Claire Doherty is a senior outpatients physiotherapist at Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital.  Claire has been physiotherapist for the Australian Medical Football Team at the annual World Medical Football Championships since 2010.  Claire was the recipient of the Rural and Regional Michelle Beets Memorial Award for services to paediatrics in 2014.

Drew Richardson

ER 18
Flow

Prof Richardson is the NRMA-ACT Road Safety trust Chair of Road Trauma and Emergency Medicine at the Australian National University Medical School. His clinical position is Senior Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine at Canberra Hospital and Health Services. He has a major interest in Emergency Department flow and systems research and has received his MD at ANU on the subject of “Emergency Department Overcrowding and Access Block”.

Sue Leraci

EVREV2022

Dr Sue Ieraci has practised as a specialist emergency physician since 1990, but only discovered the social media after witnessing the live twitter feed at the 2012 ASM in Hobart. She was hooked. Sue now uses the internet and social media for health-related activism as well as accessing a wide range of sites for reference and ongoing education. She writes about many issues, using both 140-character tweets and longer comments and articles, hoping to stimulate both thought and lively discussion. Her favourite topics include the anti-vaccination movement and homeopathy.

James Edwards

EVREV2022

Dr James Edwards is Senior Staff Specialist and Director of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Emergency Department.  He currently chairs the NSW Prevocational Training Council and the Sydney University Pre-internship (PRINT) committee. James has a strong interest in medical education and is the founder of a free open access medical education website for junior doctors www.onthewards.org

Wednesday 28 February - Friday 2 March 2018

Novotel Northbeach Wollongong, NSW