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National Executive
President - Dr Ian Civil Vice-President - Dr Tony Joseph Immediate Past-President/Media Lisiason - Andrea Delprado Treasurer - Andrea Delprado Secretary - Sharon Johnson Other Committee members: Patricia McDougall, Sudhakar Rao, Maxine Burrell, Kate Martin, Deb Wood, Melissa WebbProgram Committee: Ian Civil, Tony Joseph, Patricia McDougall, Melissa Webb, Sudhakar Rao, Maxine Burrell, Helen JowettPublication Committee: Ian Civil, Deb WoodResearch Committee: Kate Martin, Kate Curtis
President - Dr Ian Civil
Immediate Past-President/Media Liaison/ Treasurer – Andrea Delprado
Programme - Trish McDougall Trish McDougall is the inaugural Executive Manager of the NSW Institute of Trauma and Injury Management (ITIM) which was established in 2002 to coordinate the NSW Statewide Trauma System. Prior to her current appointment she was the Trauma Nurse Coordinator/ Program Manager at Westmead Hospital. Other positions which she held at Westmead included Trauma Research Nurse in the Department of Surgery and Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Emergency Department. Trish is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) National Trauma Verification Committee. She joined the RACS EMST programme in 1989 at its inception as a Course Coordinator and continued in the role till 2003. From 2005 to 2007 she was the President of the Australasian Trauma Society and currently she is an International Editorial Consultant for the Journal of Trauma Nurses in the USA. In 2008 she received The Society of Trauma Nurses 2008 Leadership Award which was presented to her in New Orleans in April 2008. The Order of Australia Medal (OAM) was awarded to Trish in the June 2008 Queens Birthday Honours List for service to nursing particularly, in the area of trauma and injury management, to nurse education and to professional organisations.
Secretary – Sharon Johnson Sharon is the Educator for the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) at Royal Darwin Hospital. Sharon commenced this position in February 2009 and has been actively involved in teaching trauma and disaster education across the Top end. She has extensive critical care skills specialising in retrieval, trauma and emergency nursing. Prior to working at Royal Darwin Hospital she was the Area Trauma Clinical Nurse Consultant at Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW for five years. She holds a masters degree in professional studies majoring in education & a diploma in clinical practice and a certificate in critical care. She received the RNSH critical care prize in 2001 for outstanding practice. She has been a clinical fellow at the University of Technology Sydney since 2007. She was also a founding member of the Trauma Nursing Program (TNP) in NSW and now runs the TNP in the Northern Territory. Sharon is an EMST coordinator, ALS Instructor, TNP instructor and so to be an EMSB & MIMMS Instructor. Sharon has been the ATS secretary since 2004. Sharon was recently involved as the nurse commander at Truscott airbase from the Ashmore Reef incident. Sharon has a passion for trauma and disaster education across the disciplines from pre-hospital through to rehabilitation. She also is an active life saving member who has competed at the Australian titles, a specialist reserve in the RAAF, and a retrieval nurse for Careflight International.
Registry/Research - Maxine Burrell
Trauma Research Nurse in Trauma Registry at Royal Perh Hospital since 1996
Registry/Research - Rangi Dansey Currently Trauma System Co-ordinator at Auckland City Hospital and Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland NZ. Responsible for managing the trauma registries at both institutions and for the co-ordination of specialised clinical training for ambulance paramedics.
Programme - Melissa Dixon Melissa Dixon has been involved in trauma care for over 10 years and is currently the Senior Clinician Trauma Physiotherapist at The Alfred, Melbourne. During this time, Melissa has worked to develop a specialised model of care for physiotherapy in trauma including a dedicated clinical skill set and physiotherapy job description. Melissa has extensively investigated the role of the physiotherapist in different models of trauma care through benchmarking surveys in 2004 and 2008 in Australian Major Trauma Centres. She has also completed an overseas fellowship in 2004, visiting trauma centres in the US, Germany and Switzerland and throughout Australia, to review best practice trauma physiotherapy. Melissa has special interests in the areas of trauma systems, the role of the physiotherapist in trauma teams and early rehabilitation in the ICU and acute care setting. She is passionate about trauma as a specialty and looks forward to building a foundation and structure to encourage allied health trauma clinicians to engage in trauma education, teaching, research and information dissemination through the ATS.
Programme - Helen Jowett Helen has worked in a variety of roles during here 14 years of service at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Her role as the Trauma Service Manager is a multifaceted one which ensures that RCH has an effective trauma service. She is responsible for the overall coordination and execution of all projects related to paediatric trauma including data collection, analysis, education, research, quality monitoring, and continuous quality improvement initiatives & protocol implementation and evaluation of the state wide trauma system.
She coordinates state wide paediatric trauma seminars within regional Victoria, delivering much needed trauma team training and education to rural clinicians.
She is actively involved in the Trauma Education Group and the Trauma Coordination Group at the Department of Health, Victoria. In 2009 she participated in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons trauma verification team in Queensland and this year she is a member of the Trauma 2010 conference, scientific committee.
She is passionate about paediatric patients and is committed to injury prevention in ‘little people’. She has three beautiful, active children who unfortunately compete in horse riding, motor cross, gymnastics and have a very large trampoline in their back yard. If you know anything about trauma, these are not the ideal sports when you’re a trauma manager.
Her other passions in life are photography, reading, dancing, rugby union, hurling, the great outdoors, all things Irish and any humanitarian issue where an injustice is occurring. Oops nearly forgot, her kids!
Publication - Erica Caldwell Erica Caldwell has been part of the Trauma Department at Liverpool since 1995. From 2001 as Trauma Clinical Nurse Consultant and prior to this she developed and managed the Regional Trauma Registry for South Western Sydney. Her nursing qualifications include three nursing certificates (general, psychiatric and midwifery). She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree (Psychology) at Macquarie University in 1993. Added to her background of experience in emergency nursing, education, community mental health and occupational health management. Erica has gained a wealth of experience with trauma systems, monitoring patient outcomes and development of key performance indicators. Her role is to coordinate the activities and outcomes of trauma by the provision of leadership and expert clinical advice to patients and their families and other health professionals in trauma related matters. Erica has developed strong working relationships with nursing, medical and allied health professionals and pre-hospital service providers through willingness to work within and through multiple disciplines to achieve quality care for trauma patients.
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