Faculty (2027 National Updates Coming Soon!)

Hind Alramadan is a Trauma Clinical Nurse Consultant at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Hind graduated with a Bachelors of Advanced Nursing from the University of Sydney and completed a Masters of Advanced Nursing and Critical Care at the University of Technology Sydney. With a background in emergency nursing and clinical education, Hind has a strong interest in trauma systems, multidisciplinary care, nursing education, and quality improvement. She is actively involved in trauma research, clinical audits, and the development of initiatives that enhance patient outcomes and support evidence-based practice.

Professor Zsolt Balogh is an international leader in trauma care, research and education.

He is directing the trauma services for John Hunter Hospital and Hunter New England (2005-), Professor of Surgery at the University of Newcastle (2008-), Convening the Master of Traumatology Program (2015-). Chairing the ANZ Trauma Care Verification Program (2017-), leading the Injury and Trauma Research Program at Hunter Medical Research Institute (2021-) and the president of the ANZ Association for the Surgery of Trauma (2025-).
Professor Balogh is a busy practicing trauma and orthopaedic trauma surgeon with a major interest and expertise in complex polytrauma patient management, traumatic shock resuscitation, postinjury multiple organ failure and pelvic and acetabulum fracture patients.
Professor Balogh is the recipient of Australia’s most prestigious surgical research award, the John Mitchell Crouch fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (2015) and one of the highest international recognitions in trauma surgery, the Robert Danis Prize (2026) by the International Surgical Society. Zsolt was also the top researcher of Australia in the field of Emergency Medicine; 2020, 2021 and 2026 by The Australian – Report on Research.
With over 400 peer-reviewed publications, more than 37,000 citations, and a h-Index of 77, Professor Balogh’s research covers many areas overlapping with his above clinical expertise.
Professor Balogh is dedicated to continuing his contribution to the scientific community via avenues such as Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Editor of leading trauma, surgical and critical care journals.

Jimmy is an Emergency Physician and Retrieval with over fifteen years’ experience across tertiary emergency medicine, aeromedical retrieval and prehospital critical care. He is currently Deputy Medical Manager and Senior Staff Specialist with NSW Ambulance Aeromedical Operations, providing operational leadership, clinical governance, workforce management and service development. Jimmy’s interests include prehospital ECMO, point-of-care ultrasound, trauma care, disaster response, clinical governance and medical education.

Associate Professor Lai Heng Foong, BMBS, FACEM, MHS (International Health), BA(Hons)

A/Prof Foong is a Senior Emergency Specialist based in Sydney, Australia, who has a passion for Public Health and Disaster preparedness, climate change and health impacts, Indigenous Health and the social determinants of health. She has recently been appointed the Principal Research Fellow at the Heat and Health Research Centre, University of Sydney. She is involved in groundbreaking work to build resilience to a warming planet across the human lifespan by undertaking research that understands the underlying mechanisms of heat vulnerability.

She is the Chair of the Public Health and Disaster Committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). She is the Chair of the Public and Environmental Health Special Interest Group of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). She works at the intersection of Emergency Medicine, public health and health inequity, including trauma. She has conducted research and been an advocate for women affected by domestic violence.

A/Prof Foong has co-authored a chapter on Emergency Medicine in a Climate Crisis in the Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability 2024, a chapter on Public Health in Cameron’s Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine 2025, and a chapter on Children in a Disaster Response, Cameron’s Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine in 2023. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to COVID-19 preparedness and impacts, domestic violence, heat and health and health impacts of climate change.

Sally Forrest has been working in the Trauma Case Manager role at Liverpool Hospital since 2003. Sally is an experienced emergency nurse and has worked in emergency & trauma within rural, remote and metropolitan centres since 1999. Sally has worked within the retrieval service at CareFlight International as a flight nurse, retrieving critical care patients.
Her qualifications include Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Emergency and Orthopaedic Nursing, First Line Emergency Care (FLEC), Trauma Nursing Core Course, and Disaster Training. She is eFAST Emergency Ultrasound accredited trainer and is an EMS coordinator. Sally’s role as Trauma Case Manager is to coordinate the care of the trauma patient from arrival to discharge Sally’s focus is educating staff, patients and their families in trauma systems and management.

Nevenka Francis is a Senior Clinical Skills and Simulation Educator with UNSW Medicine & Health, South West Sydney Clinical Campus. She has more than 20 years’ experience in trauma, critical care and simulation-based education. Nevenka has led district-wide trauma initiatives and contributed to the development of standardised trauma team training programs at state level. Her clinical expertise includes intensive care, Medical Emergency Team coordination, retrieval nursing and advanced trauma care. She is also an HMIMMS Instructor and Senior EMERGO Instructor. Nevenka is completing a PhD at the University of Wollongong, researching frailty and trauma outcomes in older adults following traumatic injury.

Ben Gardiner is a senior health service leader and trauma systems specialist with more than 35 years’ experience across trauma, perioperative and health service leadership in Australia. As Director of the Queensland Trauma Data Collection, he leads a statewide clinician-led program integrating trauma surveillance, registry development, data quality and system improvement across Queensland.
His multidisciplinary perspective on trauma system development bridges clinical practice, data, governance and quality improvement. He has delivered more than 30 conference and professional presentations in Australia and internationally, spanning trauma systems, registry development, performance and outcomes, quality improvement, digital innovation, geospatial analysis, clinical governance and workforce development across diverse health service settings.
Beyond his Queensland role, his professional contributions include service as Board Director of the Australia and New Zealand Trauma Society, membership of the Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry Bi-National Trauma Minimum Dataset Working Group and service as a Royal Australasian College of Surgeons trauma verification reviewer. He has also served as a surveyor with the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.
As Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Global Trauma Partnerships, he works with clinical and organisational leaders to strengthen trauma systems through collaboration, education, data-informed practice and sustainable approaches to improvement.

A/Prof Anthony Grabs, MBBS FRACS (general and vascular), has been the Trauma Director at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney since 2003 and is also and Surgical stream Director with the same organisation. Associate Professor Grabs is a practicing vascular surgeon and enjoys teaching trauma to junior doctors and medical students at UNSW. He is also a Medical Officer (Colonel) in the Army Reserve.

Professor Kerry Hitos is the Executive Director for the Westmead Research Centre for Evaluation of Surgical Outcomes in the Department of Surgery at Westmead Hospital and is the Vice President of the International Union of Angiology (Australia and New Zealand). She is part of the clinical academic leadership team for the Perioperative Care of Surgical Patients, Clinical Academic Group with Sydney Health Partners and is a member of the Centre of Excellence Commission Anticoagulation Safety Expert Advisory Group. She graduated from the School of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of New South Wales and received her PhD in Medicine in the Discipline of Surgery at the University of Sydney. She has further postgraduate qualifications from the Centre of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Newcastle. Professor Hitos has expertise in conducting high level scientific clinical research in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, surgery, emergency medicine, trauma, transplantation and translational research. She is recognised nationally and internationally for her work in thrombosis and haemostasis with a special interest in trauma and orthopaedics. Academically, Professor Hitos designed, developed and coordinated three units of the Master of Surgery Program in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. This included innovation in surgery, surgical research and evaluation as well as scientific communication for surgeons. Previously she was a member of the Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Expert Advisory Group for the Centre of Excellence Commission and Co-Chaired the New South Wales Design Working Group for Venous Thromboembolism Prevention. Professor Hitos holds several positions on editorial boards and is an invited reviewer for multiple journals. The quality and impact of her research is recognised nationally and internationally through several awards. Professor Hitos has had numerous invited presentations including national and international chairmanships. She has published over 150 research studies, articles, letters, abstracts and editorials in well reputed journals.

Dr Jarmin is a Trauma and General Surgeon currently based in Perth, Western Australia. He is a full time Consultant at the State Major Trauma Unit and is currently the Deputy Director of Trauma Services in Royal Perth Hospital. He is also an active Consultant in the RPH Department of General Surgery, participating in the Acute Surgery Unit roster. He is also Supervisor of the Surgical Stepdown (Trauma) Unit at Bentley Hospital. He has had extensive experience in resource limited environments having worked as a War Surgeon for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and EMERGENCY (Life Support for Civilian War Wounded) as well as ASPEN Medical in different conflict zones and disaster areas around the world. He is an active Surgical educator , instructing in ATLS, DSTC, ABSET and Western Trauma Courses . He also serves as Chairman of the WA RACS Trauma Sub-committee, a co-opted member of the WA RACS Council , as well as Education Committee chair of the Australia New Zealand Association for the Surgery of Trauma ( ANZAST) .He has completed Trauma Fellowships at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney and John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle NSW.

Lilly is a Trauma and General Surgeon and the Deputy Director of the St George Hospital Trauma Service. After completing her FRACS in General Surgery in 2017, Lilly completed a two-year Surgical Oncology & Melanoma Fellowship followed by a one year Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship at St Michaels and Sunnybrook Hospitals in Toronto, Canada. Her main interests within Trauma include education, in particular the training of high performing trauma teams, and also systems improvement in the way trauma care is delivered.

Helen Jowett, RN, BN, MSc Trauma, is an internationally recognised trauma nurse leader with extensive experience in paediatric trauma care, trauma systems development, injury prevention, quality improvement, and trauma education. She is the Trauma Program Manager and Clinical Nurse Consultant at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, where she leads multidisciplinary initiatives to improve trauma care across the continuum, from prevention to rehabilitation.
Helen is the Immediate Past International Director of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) and Immediate Past Chair of the STN International Council, where she advanced global collaboration, professional development, and trauma nursing leadership. She works closely with the World Health Organization, ACAN, and trauma organisations worldwide to strengthen trauma systems and expand access to education.
She is a Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Trauma Society and a founding member of ANZTQIP and contributes to national trauma governance through the RACS Bi-National Trauma Committee and Trauma Verification Committee.
An experienced educator and international speaker, Helen coordinates ATLS, ETM, and PTM programs. She has presented internationally on trauma systems, paediatric trauma, quality improvement, ethics, and global trauma nursing.
Helen also holds multiple hospital wellbeing and governance roles, reflecting her commitment to compassionate, ethical leadership and staff wellbeing.

Dr Leon Lam is a senior clinical Radiologist at Liverpool Hospital. He has a sub-specialist interest in Emergency, Trauma and Thoracic imaging. He actively participates in the care if Trauma and Acute Care Surgery patients by providing imaging reviews. He also facilitates clinical meetings and provides teaching to Radiology, Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care surgery trainees. He is a conjoint lecturer at the University of NSW and Western Sydney University.

Mary Langcake is a Trauma and Upper GIT surgeon, and is the Director of Trauma at St George Hospital, Sydney. As a Wing Commander in the Royal Australian Air Force, Mary has front line experience as a military surgeon in Afghanistan. She is a Past Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, NSW Regional Committee. She is currently a member of the NSW Institute of Trauma and Injury Management Education Committee and previously served on the ITIM Executive Committee. Mary is strongly committed to the education of medical, nursing, and allied health staff and is currently enrolled in a Master of Surgical Education at the University of Melbourne. She has also held numerous leadership positions, including with the RACS NSW Education and Research Committee, and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Surgeons as Educators Committee. In addition to her many roles, Mary is a strong advocate for the wellbeing of doctors, which has included calling for better understanding of psychological distress within the profession.

Dr David Lieu is a specialist shoulder, elbow and knee surgeon. He completed his orthopaedic training in 2013 through the Australian Orthopaedic Association, with further postgraduate training with the Prince of Wales & Concord Hospital Shoulder & Elbow Fellowship.
He has a keen interest in all sports and age-related conditions of the shoulder, elbow and knee, and is proficient in arthroscopic and open surgery for most conditions. He also has a special interest in robotic knee replacement surgery through Campbelltown Private Hospital.
He is the current Head of Department of both Liverpool and Fairfield Hospitals and is the director of the Whitlam Joint Replacement Centre. He is heavily involved in education and training. He is a Conjoint Lecturer with the UNSW Medical School and is also a Trainee Supervisor for the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He has been a faculty member for local and international meetings, as well as sitting on various committees to improve health care delivery across NSW.

Patrick Liston is an intensivist, anaesthetist and retrievalist. He works at Liverpool and Bankstown Hospitals and is a specialist on the Careflight Helicopter. He has also worked overseas in conflict zones.

Dr Kate Martin completed her General Surgical Training in 2005. She completed her Fellowship training in General Surgery and Trauma at the Alfred, Western and Royal Melbourne Hospitals. Kate is now a General and Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
She is a director with the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) and Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) faculties, and is the immediate-past supervisor of the General Surgical Training Program at the Alfred Hospital. Kate is the President of ANZAST, and immediate-past Chair of the EMST Committee. She is also a member of the Federal and Victorian State Trauma Committees of RACS, as well as the DSTC Committee.

Melissa Murphy is a Trauma Coordinator Clinical Nurse Consultant at Liverpool Hospital. An experienced emergency and trauma nurse, Melissa holds a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Western Sydney, a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Nursing, and a Master of Clinical Leadership. With more than 30 years of experience across Emergency Nursing, Trauma Nursing, and Quality and Patient Safety, she is passionate about clinical leadership, education, patient advocacy, and the continuous improvement of patient safety and healthcare quality.

Dr Shady Osman is an Interventional Radiologist at Liverpool Hospital and Sydney Southwest Private Hospital in Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology (FRANZCR) and is certified by the European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR).
Dr Osman specialises in minimally invasive, image-guided procedures, with clinical interests spanning advanced diagnostic imaging—particularly liver and prostate MRI—and interventional oncology. He has a strong focus on embolisation techniques, including the management of venous disease, hepatobiliary interventions, IR oncology, and trauma-related haemorrhage.
He is currently the Co-Director of Training at Liverpool Hospital and is a passionate advocate for radiology education and trainee development. Dr Osman is also at the forefront of Haemorrhoidal Artery Embolisation in Australia, pioneering the Emborrhoid technique for the treatment of bleeding haemorrhoids.

Michael Parr trained in anaesthesia, internal medicine and intensive care in the UK, New Zealand, USA and Australia. Director of Intensive Care Liverpool Hospital, Sydney (2005-2023) and Macquarie University Hospital (current), and Professor University of New South Wales and Macquarie University. He is Deputy Chair of the Australian Resuscitation Council, and past-President of the Australasian Trauma Society.

Gert Pienaar is a born and bred South African anaesthetist with a passion for trauma, pre-hospital and retrieval medicine. Management of critical ill trauma patients has been part of his practice since internship and junior medical officer employment at major trauma hospitals in Johannesburg, as well as private retrieval services in South Africa. He has limited disaster medicine experience and deployed to both the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, as a member of the Rescue South Africa Disaster Response Team. Gert is currently working as an anaesthetist at various hospitals in Sydney, after completing ANZCA required supervised practice at Prince of Wales Hospital. In his spare time, he is exploring as many Australian beaches as possible with his family

Deepali Poels is an Acute Care and Trauma Surgeon at Liverpool Hospital, South Western Sydney Local Health District.
After completing her surgical training and FRACS in General Surgery in 2019, she was appointed the inaugural Acute Surgery and Trauma Fellow at Royal North Shore Hospital, serving the North Shore region of Sydney. In this role she made significant contributions to junior doctor wellbeing, process improvement, and optimisation of the patient journey. She subsequently worked in regional centres as a consultant in General and Acute Surgery at Lismore Base Hospital (NSW) and University Hospital Geelong (Victoria).
Deepali has also completed formal fellowship training in breast oncoplasty and gained endocrine surgery experience in high-volume centres across Melbourne and Sydney. She is a regular faculty member of the RACS MOSES which is specifically designed to bridge the gap between technical operative skills and the critical non-technical and decision-making abilities required in real-world emergency general surgery. She was also nominated for the NSW Teacher of the Year Award in 2022. She is deeply passionate about trauma training, acute care and trauma surgery delivery.

Jenny is the Senior Nursing Director of the Trauma Service team at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC), based at Royal Darwin Hospital. She is a senior clinical leader with extensive experience in trauma systems, disaster response and multidisciplinary models of care in resource-limited and geographically isolated environments.
An active member of the Australian Medical Assistance Team (AUSMAT), Jenny has contributed to multiple national and international deployments, including the COVID-19 response and Victorian bushfires. Her operational experience spans complex disaster environments, with a focus on coordinated, high-reliability clinical response.
Working in the Northern Territory, Jenny has been closely involved in the management of major incidents and the delivery of trauma care across vast and remote regions. Her work emphasises system integration, multidisciplinary collaboration and practical, context-responsive approaches to achieving optimal patient outcomes.
Jenny is a strong advocate for trauma education, translational research and outreach, with a focus on building clinical capability and strengthening trauma systems across regional and remote settings.
She holds a Master of Nursing and is an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM), with Fellowship anticipated in September 2026.

Professor Martin Wullschleger is a Swiss and Australian qualified General and Trauma Surgeon, currently appointed as the Clinical Director Orthopaedics & Trauma at the Gold Coast University Hospital. Apart from his clinical commitment as acute care and trauma surgeon with particular interest in chest wall reconstruction and pelvic surgery, he is also a passionate leader in academia, appointed as Professor of Traumatology with Griffith University, Gold Coast, and is involved in various educational activities including teaching as senior instructor/course director on numerous EMST, DSTC and ABSET courses. His research interests are in trauma system development, multi-trauma management, thoracic and pelvic trauma, and fracture and soft tissue healing. Martin Wullschleger is the immediate Past Chair of the Queensland Trauma Clinical Network of the Clinical Excellence Division of Queensland Health, and an active member of RACS Trauma committees (Bi-National and Chair of QLD Trauma Committee) as well as the Chair of the DSTC Steering Committee of ANZAST (DSTC Lead for ANZ) and a member of the IATSIC Counsil.

Dr. Assad Zahid is a Colorectal Surgeon. He was awarded the Mitchell J Notaras Scholarship in Colorectal Surgery for three consecutive years after completing his general surgical training. This was awarded to him by the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) and the University of Sydney. His advanced fellowship training in colorectal surgery was completed at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He then completed further fellowships in the United Kingdom at St Mark's and Basingstoke Hospitals.
Dr Zahid has a keen interest in research and education. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at The Australian National University and Western Sydney University. He has published in over 40 peer-review journals. He has completed a Master of Surgery as well as a Master of Philosophy. And he has been awarded his PhD in Surgical Education and training.