National Executive

Dr Andrew Pearce senior Emergency Medicine consultant with special interests and appointments in Trauma/Retrieval and Disaster medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. His current position is the newly established Clinical Director of Training and Standards for the South Australian Statewide Retrieval Service. Andrew coordinates the AUSMAT-SA Australian Medical Assistance Team for South Australia as well as the medical representative for the state Urban Search and Rescue Group. Currently a RAAF Wing Commander specialist reservist with several overseas tours of duty and chair of the Emergency Medicine Consultative Group to the Australian Defence Force. Andrew teaches Military Critical Care Aeromedical Team training for military retrieval work. Andrew is the current President of the Australasian Trauma Society and Chair of Australasian College of Emergency Medicine Trauma sub-committee. He is actively involved in teaching as an EMST/ATLS Director , senior clinical lecturer at the University of Adelaide, MIMMS instructor, lecturing medical students, ambulance officers and emergency trainees.

Treasurer - 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
- Currently Trauma Program Manager at Royal Perth Hospital (since 2006)
- Responsible for planning and evaluation of the Trauma Service, which involves data management; coordination of the multidisciplinary trauma team; and monitoring and feedback of patient outcomes through quality improvement activities
- Recently coordinated successful formal RACS Trauma Verification at Royal Perth Hospital
- Member of RACS Verification Site Review Team (2009)
- Member of WA State Trauma Registry Committee and WA State Trauma Data Evaluation Committee; Chair Surgical Division Nurses Quality Improvement Committee (Royal Perth Hospital)
- Completed Bachelor of Science in 2006 (Health Information Management) and a Graduate Certificate (Health Policy and Management) in 2008
- Clinical background: Clinical Nurse in Theatres with a special interest in Trauma Surgery
- Emigrated to Perth from England in 1993
- Qualified RN in 1981. Post basic theatre qualification at The Royal London Hospital.

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.
Has an emergency services background having held various paramedic, operational and management positions with St John Ambulance, Auckland over 25 year career there.