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Emergency
Dr Belinda Hibble – Director of Emergency
Expertise:
- Emergency medicine
- Thunderstorm asthma
- Alcohol and violence
- Road trauma
Mental Health
Professor Steve Moylan – Clinical Director of Mental Health, Drugs and Alcohol Services (MHDAS)
Expertise:
- Mental health
- Psychiatry
- Depression and anxiety
- Drugs and alcohol
- Suicide
Urology
Mr Richard Grills – Director of Urological Surgery
Expertise:
- Urological surgery
- Robotic surgery
- Prostate cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Surgical education and training
Intensive Care
Associate Professor Neil Orford – Director of Intensive Care Unit
Expertise:
- Intensive care
- End-of-life care
- iValidate
- Clinical leadership
- ECMO
- Long-term outcomes after critical illness
End of Life Care
Associate Professor Charlie Corke – ICU physician
Expertise:
- Medical decision-making
- End-of-life choices
- Medical staff welfare
Cardiology
Dr Alan Appelbe – Cardiology physician
Expertise:
- Cardiology
- East Timor Hearts Fund
- Cardiac surgery
Infectious Diseases
Professor Eugene Athan – Director Barwon South West Public Health Unit
Expertise:
- COVID-19
- Vaccines
- Infectious diseases
- Influenza
Infectious Diseases - Buruli/Bairnsdale ulcer
Associate Professor Daniel O’Brien – Director Infectious Diseases
Expertise:
- COVID-19
- Buruli/Bairnsdale ulcer
- Tuberculosis
- HIV
- Travel/immigrant health
Immunisation
Caroline Poynder – Barwon Health Immunisation Service clinical coordinator
Expertise:
- Immunisation
- Needle Exchange Program
Neurosciences
Associate Professor Paul Talman – Neurosciences director
Expertise:
- Motor neurone disease (MND)/Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Neurology
- Neurobiology
- Clinical data registries and data linkage
Women’s and Children’s Health
Dr Dave Fuller – Women’s and Children’s Directorate clinical director
Expertise:
- Adolescent health
- Paediatrics and child health
- Neonatology
- Maternity services
Paediatrics
Professor Peter Vuillermin – Professor of Paediatrics
Expertise:
- Paediatrics
- Allergy and asthma
- Microbiome research
Dignity Therapy
Russell Armstrong – Supportive Care worker
Expertise:
- Dignity Therapy program
- Spiritual care
- End-of-life support
Cancer
Associate Professor Philip Campbell - Director Cancer Services
Expertise:
- Leukaemia and Lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Haemotology
Psychiatry
Professor Michael Berk
Expertise:
- Psychiatry
- Depression
- Bipolar disorder
- Mental disorders
Stroke
Dr Ben Clissold – Head of Stroke
Expertise:
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular disease
- General neurology
Medical Imaging
A/Prof Kevin Shaw – Director of Radiology (BMI)
Expertise:
- Diagnostic medical imaging
