Aled Williams – Managing Director

Dr Aled Williams works as a specialist emergency physician at Fremantle Hospital and is Director of medical services at Peel Health Campus in Mandurah as well as being a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He has worked in remote and austere environments, which has included two missions with the Red Cross in Afghanistan and Kenya. In addition to managing Medical Emergency Solutions, Dr Williams is a director of Link Health which provides Occupational Health and on site services to remote industrial areas and LocumForce which is a medical recruitment company. Special interests include remote and third world medicine and developing innovative care models for acute hospital patients.

Paul Bailey

Paul Bailey is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine with the University of Western Australia as well as being Director of Emergency Medicine at Peel Health Campus in Mandurah and a specialist in Emergency Medicine at Joondalup Health Campus. He is also the Director of Medical Operations for the Western Division of CareFlight Air Ambulance and has invaluable experience in setting up and coordinating retrieval services to remote areas. Paul has also completed a PhD and maintains a strong interest in research especially in the areas of systems design in emergency care.

Ian Norton

Dr. Norton is an Emergency Physician with a special interest in disaster response. He is director of Disaster Preparedness and Response at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) and also works as a specialist in the Emergency Department of Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr. Norton led the field medical response to the Ashmore Reef refugee explosion which included medical staff from Royal Darwin Hospital/ NCCTRC, Derby and Broome Hospitals in Western Australia and defence medical staff. He is the National Director of Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) courses and is an expert at training health staff to deal with mass casualty events.

Research interests include heat illness and prevention of heat stress in fire fighters and medical CBR responders, triage card systems, carbon monoxide exposure in fire fighters and novel methods of burns estimation and treatment in the field. Ongoing research includes new education packages and delivery for remote medical staff, new mass casualty education soft ware and the use of digital field medical records for victims of a mass casualty incident.

Mark Little

In addition to being a senior emergency physician Mark is one of Australia's few clinical toxicologists. He has also worked in Aeromedical retrieval in the UK and China and served in the Australian Regular Army for 7 years including a deployment to Iraq in 1991. He is currently employed at Royal Perth Hospital, and has appointments to the NSW and Qld Poisons Centres. His research interests are involved with marine envenoming and toxicology, and has co authored Australia's first clinical toxicology textbook

Mark Salib

Mark spent some years as a GP in remote Queensland before moving into intensive care and anaesthetics combined with Royal Flying Doctor Service work in Cairns and Central Australia. He then moved to Perth where he completed his specialty training as an emergency physician he now works in Fremantle Hospital and Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital providing exposure to both the rural and teaching hospital environments. His main interests are airway management and trauma.

Mike Cadogan

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh and Oxford, Mike is a senior emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force rugby team.

Recognising the need for enhanced medical information distribution in Australia both at a structural and an educational level, he created an interactive intranet learning platform in 2006 to facilitate e-learning using high quality multimedia content. Mike also founded the development of HealthEngine, Australia's most comprehensive search engine to find doctors.

Mike is a prolific writer and editor of Life In the Fast Lane amongst his many blogs and medical texts. He patrols the information superhighway and maintains the highest standard of content quality and integrity across the Future Health family of websites. Widely regarded as the number one medical blogger in Australia and an expert in medical applications of social media, Mike is a sought after speaker and consultant to corporate clients and educational and research institutions both in Australia and internationally. Mike is married with three children in Perth. He is passionate about rugby, medical education, and health informatics.

David Cruse

David Cruse is a Specialist Emergency Medicine Physician and Director of Emergency Medicine Training at Fremantle Hospital. He is also a Clinical Senior Lecturer with University of WA. His special interests include teaching, hyperbaric medicine and wound management. David has extensive experience in teaching of paramedics, medical students, nurses, junior doctors in metro Perth and all throughout rural and remote WA.

David Mountain

Assoc Prof David Mountain is a specialist in the emergency department of Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital as well as holding an academic position with the University of Western Australia. His areas of special interest and research are Acute Chest pain, Pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis, diagnostics, risk assessment and trauma. David also has experience in remote area aeromedical retrievals.

Tony Celenza

Professor Celenza is the Head of the Discipline of Emergency Medicine at the University of Western Australia, and practices as a Specialist Emergency Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. His research interests include educational evaluation, emergency case epidemiology and a wide variety of clinical research topics including infectious diseases and acute neurology. Professor Celenza has also won multiple awards for undergraduate teaching, and conducts a number of courses for continuing education of rural general practitioners.

Steve Dunjey

Stephen Dunjey is currently a Emergency Physician with appointments at Royal Perth Hospital, King Edward Hospital for women, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital. He is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Western Australia. More recently he has pioneered the use of diagnostic ultrasound in Emergency Medicine in Western Australia and has become one of a select group who have completed sub-specialty training in Ultrasound Medicine. He is also an examiner for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the Australian Medical Council and is a highly respected medical educator. His major interests are in teaching clinical medicine, ultrasound, and trauma.