James is the Founder of onthewards, a Senior Staff Specialist and Acting Director of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) Emergency Department. He is also the current Clinical Chair of

the NSW Prevocational Training Council at the Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) and in the Sydney University Medical Program chairs the pre-internship committee. James is the inaugural Medical Director of the Sydney Local Health District Demand Management Unit.

James is a Staff Specialist working in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) Emergency Department. He has a special interest in ultrasound and coordinates the registrar ultrasound training program. James

is also the most recent recipient of the RPAH Teacher of the Year award.

Claire is currently undertaking an ICU Clinical and Simulation Fellowship at RNSH. She is a born and bred Victorian having grown up in Mildura before completing a Physiotherapy degree in

Melbourne. She then moved to Canberra where she completed her medical degree. Her love for the country life took her to Wagga Wagga for internship and resident years before being drawn to the big city lights for her husband and to train at the RNSH and RPAH ICUs.
She has a special interest in bariatric medicine, innovative medical education and retrieval medicine (she is also apparently an expert in all things related to faecal matter courtesy of two public ICU talks). Aside from expanding her knowledge in these niche ICU areas, Claire is a passionate John Farnham fan and a loyal Geelong AFL supporter.  Claire has little baby boy that has also independently developed the same passions.

Peter is a Senior Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medical Training, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and Clinical Lecturer at the University of Queensland. He is

also a blogger and architect. Peter’s main interests in medicine include resuscitation and emergency cardiology. He is creator and editor of www.resus.com.au a free medical education website, rated in the top critical care blogs in the world. Peter is also the creator of the EMcore Conferences (www.emcore.com.au) and creator of ‘The ECG in 20 Seconds’ System. His passion is education and the deconstruction of difficult topics into their core learning elements.

Amanda is a Specialist in Palliative Medicine and is also working as a Senior Clinical Advisor at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare. She has worked at the

NSW Clinical Excellence Commission developing programs addressing Diagnostic Error and End of Life Care, and has worked as a clinician, educator and administrator in South Western Sydney.

Grace is a Paediatric Registrar at Sydney Children’s Hospital who is passionate about innovative medical education and paediatrics. She is a senior content editor for the paediatric website Don’t Forget

The Bubbles and part of the organising committee for acute paediatrics conference DFTB19 as well as the Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) conferences. Grace is a former internal director of the Australian Medical Student Journal and past contributor to onthewards. Her other interests include graphic design, board games and cheesy jokes. Her twitter handle is @gracie_leo

Eve is an Emergency Medicine resident at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is also completing her master’s in applied anthropology through the University of North Texas and is

spending the year on the Gold Coast doing an education and research fellowship. Eve has specific interest in teamwork in the trauma and acute care environments as well as the impact of gender in medical education and practice. She likes data supported story telling and finds that she gets to engage in it often through both anthropology and clinical medicine!

Rob is a Senior Consultant Anaesthetist who works across several major Sydney Hospitals. He has a particular interest in system safety and the human factors approach to patient care. Rob

is Director of The PatientSafe Network, a not for profit charity organisation focussed on working together to implement effective safety solutions.

Natalie trained in Emergency Medicine and Paediatric EM in the UK where she worked for just over a year as a consultant before moving to Sydney where she now works

locally as a Specialist in Emergency Medicine, as a Specialist in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine with Sydney HEMS and occasionally in Neonatal and Pediatric Transport (NETS). She has spoken internationally in Australia, Europe and the US, on topics in paediatrics, medical education and social media for teaching and learning. She is a proud contributor to the St. Emlyn’s blog and podcast, as well as a member of the Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) conference organising committee.

Rhea is a General and Breast Surgeon on the Gold Coast, Queensland, surgical educationalist, women in surgery advocate, and Chair of the Operating With Respect Committee of the Royal Australasian

College of Surgeons.

Chris is a Consultant General and developmental Paediatrician in Sydney. He is interested in communities and communication, and his thoughts about the work-life

tightrope have been published in Fairfax Media and onthewards.org

Bridget is a Consultant Palliative Care physician who works at Greenwich Hospital in Sydney. Bridget has taken gap years to conduct research in rural Thailand and to

have three children. She knows there is definitely more than one way to have a successful career.

Ian is a researcher and international presenter on surgical education, with interests in selection, curriculum design, informed consent and feedback. He has a Master in Surgical Education from the University

of Melbourne, is a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle and Clinical Lead, Quality and Innovation, at Central Coast Local Health District.
He is currently Dean, and former Chair of Training and past-President, of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA). Ian is an architect of AOA 21, the innovative redesign of the Australian Orthopaedic Training program, which is recognised as an exemplar by the Australian Medical Council, RACS and other Australian and international training bodies.

Ken is a staff specialist Transplant Hepatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney where he completed most of his junior medical training and advanced training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. In

2016, he spent a year overseas as the Hepatology Fellow at the Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently also completing a PhD at the Centenary Institute, Sydney. Ken has authored or co-authored over 40 papers in the field of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and presented his research at major international conferences. He also has a passion for teaching medical students and junior medical officers and has twice won the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Teacher of the Year award.

Emma is a paediatrician who also has an MBA and is a qualified executive coach. Emma founded the LEAD and LEAP leadership programs and was the lead faculty for 8

years. She has recently stepped into the role of Executive Director of Medical Services at WSLHD and is excited to bring her clinical, business, coaching and leadership experience to this new challenge. In her spare time (when she can find it!) Emma exercises her two very energetic working dogs, chases the powder on her snowboard and plays hockey.

Caitlin, named “Most Likely to Donate a Kidney to a Patient” by her medical school cohort, is a PGY6 doctor-in-training with a passion for improving the culture of our working

and learning environments.  In 2017 Caitlin undertook a Churchill Fellowship exploring policies and programs for clinician health and well-being in the USA, Canada and the UK.  Since then she has interrupted her ANZCA training to implement her research findings, designing a well-being module for junior doctors on the mobile application Resident Guide and presenting at several national and international conferences. Caitlin serves on the board of Doctors Health Services as well as a number of committees with the Australian Medical Association including the NSW and Federal Council of Doctors in Training. Caitlin is passionate about equity and equality, professionalism, innovation and positive psychology.

Jules is an Emergency Physician and the Director of Prevocational Education and Training at Gosford hospital, Central Coast, NSW.
His interest is in bringing out the best in people and helping them to achieve their

potential, principally through mentoring, coaching and education. He firmly believes that wellbeing is a crucial part of this and that you cannot be a great doctor and look after someone to the best of your abilities if you yourself are not well.
He has trained as an executive coach and mentor and as a side interest used to play professional level poker. Through this he developed an interest in psychology and behaviour under pressure and has found many similarities between poker, medicine and investing. He talks at share trading seminars on the psychology of investing and trading and has run workshops on financial wellness for doctors. He is putting together content on financial wellness for The Resident App and the WRaPEM group. He is also training to become a professional trader with the Van Tharp Institute.
He is married to Sophia with 2 boys aged 9 and 11, all of whom help remind him of the importance of wellbeing and balance in life, why wine and whisky are an important part of that balance and why he’s not living a degenerate life in Las Vegas!

Clare is an Emergency Physician and prehospital and retrieval medicine specialist. She works with NSW Ambulance Aeromedical division as Director of Training, as part of the medical team and in

the aeromedical control centre. Clare has a special interest in simulation based education and how teams work.

Renee is a doctor, performer, and educator . In addition to being Director of Program Development at the Pam McLean Centre (one of the leading centres in Australia aimed at improving

communication education in the Health sector), a Senior Lecturer in Professional Development at Sydney University, and a locum doctor in Emergency and Palliative Care, Renee is also an established performer, on shows likes Pulse, Ask The Doctor, Food Investigators, Secret City, East West 101 and Please Like Me, and a writer/director.  She is the CEO of Changineers, a social enterprise providing educational innovation for organisations that are creating positive social change, and consults in Health, Education and Engagement across the NFP space, most recently with the Paul Ramsay Foundation and MSF.

Joy Stewart has worked as a facilitator with the Pam McLean Centre for the last 8 years. A psychotherapist in private practise, Joy has also worked professionally in both the

film and theatre industries. An award-winning playwright, her area of interest has always been the psychosocial dynamics that operate between people; whether in a clinical, organisational or dramatic arena. Joy uses her skills and knowledge as an instructional designer to support and develop the vital work of PMC.

Clare is Director of Emergency Medicine at Hornsby Kuring-Gai Hospital and Chair of the Emergency Medicine Network for Northern Sydney Local Health District. Clare is a proud graduate of the

local public school system and completed degrees in arts and science at the Australian National University before embarking on a medical degree at the University of Sydney.
Clare was a Junior Medical Officer at the Canberra Hospital before moving back to Sydney to undertake training in Emergency Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital. She also completed a Masters of Public Health degree. Since attaining Fellowship in 2011, Clare has worked clinically across Northern Sydney and as Curriculum Advisor for the Sydney Medical School.
Clare is interested in improving workplace culture in Emergency Departments and hopes to achieve this by advocating for increased senior medical staffing, building positive relationships in and beyond the Emergency Department, providing excellent clinically-orientated education, and mentorship of trainees and Junior Medical Officers.

Belinda Gray is currently an NHMRC Neil Hamilton Fairley Early Career Fellow at St George’s, University of London, in Sports Cardiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions with Professor Elijah Behr and

Professor Sanjay Sharma. Dr Gray’s research focuses on risk stratification, genetics and
prevention of sudden cardiac death in the young, including young athletes. Dr Gray graduated in medicine from the University of NSW in 2006 and completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2016 with the support of a Heart Foundation PhD Scholarship. Dr Gray is a module lead and lecturer in the Masters of Sports Cardiology (MSc) at St George’s, University of London. She has received numerous research grants and has presented at national and international conferences including the Young Investigator Awards at the Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific meeting in USA, and the Ralph Reader Prize at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. She is an early career researcher with more than 30 peer reviewed publications.