Invited Faculty
Professor Ivor Douglas
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Chief, Pulmonary
& Critical Care Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center,
Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Center, Director, Medical Intensive Care, Denver, Colorado
Ivor S. Douglas, MD, qualified at the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr. Douglas
then completed an Internship in Medicine, Surgery, and
Critical Care at Johannesburg General Hospital and was
Senior Registrar, Thoracic & General Internal Medicine
at King's College Hospital in London. Dr. Douglas then
immigrated to the United States and completed a residency
in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and
critical care at the University of Chicago.
Currently,
Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center and Director of the Medical Intensive
Care Unit at Denver Health Medical Center. Dr. Douglas
is the principal investigator for studies focusing on
lung injury remodeling, ALI/ARDS and sepsis as well
as electrolyte and metabolic disturbances in the critically
ill. He is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Clinical
Investigation, the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine
and serves on the editorial board of Chest. |
Professor Jeff Lipman
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Director of BTCCRC, Director of Department of Intensive
Care Medicine (DICM), RBWH, Professor, Anaesthesiology
& Critical Care University of Queensland. Jeff is a
co-director of the BTCCRC, Director of Department of
Intensive Care (DICM), RBWH and Professor of Anaesthesiology
& Critical Care, University of Queensland and Honorary
Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care,
Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has qualifications
in anaesthesia and intensive care and has set up and
run a number of Intensive Care and Trauma Units in South
Africa before coming to Australia in 1997.
He is the
author of over 170 peer reviewed publications, 20 book
chapters, has been invited to present at many national
and international conferences and is a reviewer for
11 high quality international journals and granting
committees, including the NHMRC. He is involved with
a large number of committees, including ANZICS clinical
trials group. Jeff has been instrumental in developing
the anaesthesiology & critical care component of the
new graduate medical program for Queensland and continues
to lecture to medical and postgraduate students.
He
is site Principal Investigator for numerous multinational
trials. Research interests include all aspects of management
in intensive care, resuscitation of burns and pharmacokinetics
of antibiotic dosage. His research into antibiotic usage
in acute situations has received international recognition.
Jeff is involved in most research projects, oversees
the direction of the research centre, mentors staff
and supervises postgraduate students attached to the
research unit. |
Professor Niranjan (Tex) Kissoon
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President - elect and Journal & Business Development,
Senior Medical Director, Acute and Critical Care Medicine,
British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Associate Head
and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University
of British Columbia.
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Professor Jan Wernerman
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Professor Jan Wernerman has been professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Karolinska Institutet since 2000 and is the Director of the Unit of Anaesthesiologic Metabolism at the Clinical Research Centre, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
He qualified as Specialist in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine in 1983 and acquired a PhD in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine in 1985. Since 1988 he has been Professor of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine. He is the head supervisor of 12 PhD students and has published over 200 original articles.
He is also a Member of the Steering Group for Post-graduate Intensivist training in Scandinavia, and member of the Advisory Board for the Scandinavian Critical Care Trails Group, President of the Swedish Association for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAI) ,Chairman for the section Metabolism-Endocrinology-Nutrition in the ESICM since 2009, Associate Editor of Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavia since 1998, Associate Editor of Intensive Care Medicine since 2007 and a Member of the Editorial Boards of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care and Nutrition.
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Dr Anke P.C. Top,
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Dr Top is presently a consultant in Paediatric
Intensive Care at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge,
United Kingdom. She studied Medicine at the Medical
School at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The
Netherlands. She trained as paediatrician and as
paediatric intensivist at Erasmus MC-Sophia
Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam and has been a
consultant at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at
Addenbrooke’s Hospital since September 2008. She is
currently involved in research on Microcirculatory
evaluation with OPS-imaging / SDF-imaging in
critically ill children using Orthogonal
Polarisation Spectral Imaging and Sidestream Dark
Field Imaging.
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Nursing Speaker
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Fiona Coyer is a Senior Lecturer at Queensland
University of Technology and is the Postgraduate
Course Coordinator and also coordinates the postgraduate
intensive care courses. She is a member of the ACCCN
Queensland Management Committee. Fiona completed
her PhD at QUT exploring family focused intensive
care nursing through action research. Her research
interests include family focused nursing and patients
and families perspectives of intensive care.
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Invited Local Faculty
- Cape Town
Andrew Argent
Janet Bell
Minette Coetzee
Anthony Figaji
Stephanie Fischer
Rencia Gillespie
Ivan Joubert
Sharon Kling
Brenda Morrow
Louis Reynolds
Jenny Thomas
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- Durban
Eric Hodgson
Harshavadan Mackanjee
Dave Muckart
Shivani Singh
- Johannesburg
Rudo Mathiva
Mervyn Mer
Shahed Omar
Fathima Paruk
Guy Richards
Juan Scribante
Dena van den Bergh
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- Bloemfontein
Yvonne Botma
Johannes Cronje
Gene Elliott
Johan Jordaan
Do-Jo Jordaan
Maria Phillips
Lincoln Solomon
Maryke Spruyt
- Potchefstroom
Ronel Pretorius
- Pietermaritzburg
Carolyn Lee
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- Pretoria
Isabel Coetzee
Robin Green
Tanya Heyns
Sam Mokgokong
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